This is another refreshed blog, originally published in 2019. It’s written by Natalie Ward, who was an intern at the AIU Centre. As well as explo...
Researching Ras T. Makonnen and Pan-Africanism in Manchester at the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre
In this blog / article, guest writer Jack A. W. Bowman shares his experiences of researching the Pan African National Congress in Manchester. He of...
The 1945 Pan-African Congress: Manchester and the Fight for Equality
This is the first of four Black History Month blogs, all focusing on the Pan-African Congress of 1945 held here in Manchester. In this refreshed blog ...
Coming to Manchester: Stories of South Asian migration to Manchester
This blog looks at South Asian migration to Manchester, using the Push-Pull theory of migration to deepen understanding. It is written for readers wit...
#BLM: Archiving Black experience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Drew Ellery talks about what he has donated to our COVID-19 collecting project, and why....
How equal is Great Britain? How far have we come since the Race Relations Act of 1976?
At the beginning of 2018 we were (and still are!) very pleased to announce that our collection of publications from the Commission for Racia...
The Elouise Edwards Photograph Collection
Photographs are such a valuable aspect of any archive. This is not only because of the stories they tell and the memories they preserve, but also beca...
Marika Sherwood, Kwame Nkrumah and the Pan-African Congress Archive
Upon the launch of her latest book, Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War, Marika Sherwood spoke yesterday, 30th April 2019, on th...