A project working with young people using our archive records around the 1981 uprisings in Moss Side....
Kwanzaa in our library
26 December to 1 January marks the celebration of Kwanzaa, originally established in 1966 as a celebration of family, community and culture and a way ...
Exploring Black Spaces Through Community Archives and Creative Writing
Come join us for a free half-day workshop exploring histories of Moss Side and Hulme through our archives and creative writing. This session is part o...
The impact of Covid-19: workshop & event
Since 2019, Covid-19 has impacted us in so many ways. With the multiple lockdowns and working from home, we can see how our lives have changed and how...
British, Bangladeshi and Belonging in Manchester
16 December 2021 celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s liberation from Pakistan and is known as “Victory Day” or “Bijoy Dibosh”. A...
Connected/ing communities in Manchester: translation and interpreting in the spotlight
Dr Rebecca Tipton reports on an online event hosted in conjunction with the AIU Centre exploring translation and interpreting in the city’s public a...
Black History Month Reading List: Black History is World History
Our second reading list for Black History Month 2021 is inspired by the Black History is World History Educational Sessions that we have been running ...
Rearranging the ‘social kaleidoscope’?: Looking back at the 1981 Moss Side ‘disturbances’
In the first of two articles on the Moss Side disturbances, using the AIU RACE Centre’s Elouise Edwards Collection, Claire Fox (academic director of...
Black History Month Reading List: And Still We Rise: Moss Side and Beyond
The first of our Black History Month 2021 reading lists, inspired by our theme of 'And Still We Rise'...
Archives Against Racism Part 2: The Archive Component, 23 Sep 2021
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre teamed up with Burning Work to produce The Archive Component, a day of speakers exploring the link between archives and...