The exhibition is back by popular demand! On the 14th February, our pop-up exhibition ‘The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicles’ will be appe...
UoM Film Screening
Over the past few months we have been working with second year students from the UoM Drama department, who have created short films inspired by AIU Ce...
International Mother Language Day 2020
On Friday 21st February we will be celebrating International Mother Language Day with Archives+ and various schools and community groups from around M...
Reflections on Black History Month
Earlier this year I travelled to Ghana, the birthplace of my maternal grandfather, for a family holiday. It incidentally coincided with Ghana’s ‘Y...
Exhibition Reflection: Journeys to Manchester
Past event – On the 18th June 2019 we launched ‘Journeys to Manchester’, an exhibition exploring the lives of people displaced by conflict, ...
Cheetham Cultural Festival
Past event – On Saturday 21st September myself, Angela and Hattie took part in the Cheetham Cultural Festival by displaying some material from o...
Black Then, Black Now: Hair braiding, yoga and more
Past event – This year for Black History Month we’re mixing things up. As well as turning things on their head on the 1st October (filling...
Book Launch: Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’
Past event – An opportunity to meet with Lucy Bland, Professor of Social and Cultural History, Anglia Ruskin University, the author of Brit...
Double Book Launch: His Own Man & Imagining Robert Reschid
Past event – His Own Man is the historical biography of Robert Stanley, a respectable northern working-class Victorian man who converted to...
Black Then, Black Now: Black History Month 2019
This event has now passed. The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust x Big People Music present 3 days of history, 3 days of futurity on the 1st, 28th and...