New Collection! Black History in Stockport uncovers the life stories of Stockport residents of African and Caribbean descent who have shaped the community into what it is today.

To find out more and read the full catalogue visit manchester.spydus.co.uk

Manchester today. We only want freedom, and justice for all. Not Rwanda, not anywhere, this is our home, we're staying here! #stoprwanda

This is just what the AIU RACE Centre UofM Libraries Manchester Libraries does. Young researchers need greater access to Britain’s rich archives, says curator theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Follow our The Haideh & Nejad Project project as it unfolds, brimming with delightful moments with children and facilitators. AIU RACE Centre The National Lottery Heritage Fund #Iranian #Kurdish #ballet

This Saturday's workshop is the first of 6 with Sahba Music!
In this workshop, we will be focusing on the Caravan. This dance was described by Haideh as 'the most important ballet' in her memoir.
We're super excited to see what Sahba Music has planned.
See you on Saturday!

From the Asian Youth Movements sending minibuses up to Orgreave to the Indian Workers' Associations organising street collections, South Asian solidarity was prominent during the miners' strike.

I have a long read in this issue, detailing many of these stories for the first time

NEXT WEDS: Hear how rap music is unfairly used in criminal trials with Keir Monteith KC. Join the conversation on stereotypes and reform.

📅 Weds 1 May
⏰5-6.30pm
🎟️FREE
📍Uni Place Theatre A

Tickets and info: bit.ly/3VrniC

Creative Manchester UoM Law CoDE (Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity)

The Digital Black Hole localstudies.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/the…

If you find yourself wondering what the names are of wild flowers, then here is a book from our #LocalStudies which will help sort out your cowslips from your columbine. ‘Wild flowers of the Peak District’ by Patrick Harding, beautifully illustrated by Valerie Oxley.
#EYANature

#WhitehavenArchives hold the volumes of J J Flintoft's British Mosses and Ferns of the English Lake District, published in 1857. The specimens are still inside. #collector #EYANature Explore Your Archive

Deadly floods are wreaking havoc across large swathes of east Africa.

Hundreds of thousands have been displaced and around 100 people have lost their lives in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi.

Have you been affected by the heavy rainfall and flooding?

🔗 bbc.in/4aPgzqG

📚😍The Yunlin Reading Spece in #WEDD , #Wuxi has garnered recognition as one of the “Most Beautiful Public Cultural Spaces” for 2024! Featuring a sprawling 1,200 sqm bookstore housing 30,000 volumes, it's not just a reading space but a dynamic hub for #ICH items. #HappyCity

Every Cook Can Plan: Utopian Ideas for Economic Democracy

Dr Troy Vettese (European University Institute)
Drew Pendergrass (Harvard University)

Tues 30 April, 1.30-3pm
Chemistry Building G.54

Part of Utopia and the Return of History Conf. All welcome, no need to register 4/5

Caretakers, Compradors and Captive Maternals as 'Vanguard'

Professor Joy James (Williams College)
Mon 29 April, 6-7.30pm
University Place, Theatre A

Part of the Utopia and the Return of History Conference. All welcome, no need to register. 3/5

Science Fiction, Utopia, and the Socialist Revolution
Ken McLeod, award-winning science fiction author

Mon 29 April, 1.30-3pm
Simon Building, Theatre B, University of Manchester

Part of the Utopia and the Return of History Conference. All welcome, no need to register.
2/5

🚨🦀SPIDER CRAB UPDATE 🦀🚨

This shocking late night CCTV footage has been revealed of our crab doing bombs at the Aquatic Centre.

The search continues…

'If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. They haven't pulled the knife out; they won't even admit that it's there.'

– Malcolm X

Location quiz for today 🧐
Can you identify these locations in the Trafford area?
Answers will be posted tomorrow morning.

45 years ago today, Blair Peach, a schoolteacher and anti-racist campaigner, died as a result of being hit over the head by police. He, along with thousands of others, was demonstrating against the National Front in Southall. Rest in power.

A fresh view on Islam: A readable summary of some of the last 50 years of serious scholarly research, analysis and thinking on Islam.
saqibqureshi.com/books/being-mu…
'Being Muslim Today' is packed with a thousand source notes to reclaim the faith from orthodoxy and Islamophobia