Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre’s Festival Of Libraries Workshop, 9 June 2021...
Centring Unheard Voices
Using oral histories to centre the voices of refugee and asylum seekers whilst working with young people...
Community-Focused Digital Engagement
This is a blog post of an online event held on 10 February at the 2021 Digital Past Conference. it was written and presented by Drew Ellery, Digital O...
Responding to COVID-19 – Hafsah
Before Hafsah joined us as Community Producer, she contributed a film to our COVID-19 Collecting project, and she tells us about her contribution here...
‘Mak’: Ras T Makonnen, the unrecognized hero of the Pan-African Movement
Makonnen is rarely a figure of historical enquiry and in the surrounding Pan-African historiography he is mentioned infrequently...
Be yourself, your authentic self
We talked with Shirley May, our Poet in Residence, about her new poem ‘They Came With Backbone‘, written for International Women’s D...
They Came With Backbone – a poem for International Women’s Day
Our new poet in residence, Shirley May, has written this poem for International Women’s Day, inspired by some of the women whose stories are fou...
Cheetham Hill Advice Centre’s organisational records
Trainee Archivist Laila Benhaida shares her insights into the hidden depths and human stories within one of our collections. This collection was donat...
Meaningful Connections: how strong communities make stronger movements
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...