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...
Holocaust Memorial Day 2021
Holocaust Memorial Day takes place every year on 27 January, a date which marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest N...
Poet in Residence
We are delighted to announce the appointment of our first poet in residence, Shirley May, one of the best known and loved performers on the Manchester...
Why was the 1945 Pan-African Congress held in Manchester?
We’re delighted to publish this blog by renowned historian Marika Sherwood. Currently Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Comm...
Black History Month 2020
October is Black History Month, and while the current restrictions mean we aren’t able to run our usual programme of in-person events, we will s...
Virtual exhibition: Journeys to Manchester
Missed it last year? Have no fear – view it digitally here!...
Refugee and Asylum Seeker Awareness Week 2020
Celebrating Refugee Week during the COVID-19 pandemic...
COVID-19 Collecting
Is your experience during COVID-19 represented? Are your stories missing? Can we help protect them for the future?...
Closure from 17.3.2020
In line with the UK Government’s latest advice on coronavirus and the closure of the University of Manchester, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations ...
Pop-Up Exhibition: Mixed-race children of war
Visit our pop-up exhibition, based on Lucy Bland’s book, Britain’s Brown Babies: The stories of children born to black GIs and white women...