Excited to share our next public event, organised by @aiucentre.bsky.social and chaired by our dear friend and colleague @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Booking link to follow very soon

For Refugee Week, we’ve launched Cultivating Compassion and Critical Thinking—a new guide to help educators engage young people with refugeeism in a compassionate way. This will sit alongside our anti-racist and archive collections-based educational activities. Let us know what you think!

🎉 Join us on 12th June 2025 for a special evening celebrating this historic event through archives, films, and stories of resistance. 🕟 4:30–7pm | ♿ Fully accessible 🎟️ shorturl.at/Uz2Um 💸 Travel/caring cost support available 📧 contact [email protected]

📣 We’re hiring a Collections Engagement Officer! Join us to create inclusive, creative ways to connect communities with our archive & library collections. 🗓️ Deadline: 23/06/25 ⏰ 28 hrs/week | 💸 £31.6–36.1k pro rata 🔗 bit.ly/3ZB5sxN #JobAlert #Archives #SocialJustice #LibraryJobs #Manchester

As part of our activities to highlight the 80th anniversary of Fifth Pan African Congress we're holding this archival encounter. Come and see the Manchester's archival record of the Congress.

We're really excited to be teaming up with the AIU Race Centre, North West Film Archive and People's History Museum to bring Legacy of Unity: Archival Insights from the Pan African Congress 1945. Thursday 12th June from 4:30pm at Manchester Central Library www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legacy-of-...

Great to see the spotlight on Manchester's radical Black women - more of this please. Visit our archives to explore these histories - also George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social