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Refugee Week, June 17th to 23rd 2013
The Oxford Committee for Famine Relief was founded in 1942 by a group of Quakers, social activists and Oxford academics to campaign for food supplies to be sent through an allied naval blockade of...
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Manchester’s message to refugees
Refugee Week 2013 runs from the 17th to the 23rd June. Archives+ have created Storify and Facebook posts to highlight and share some of the stories contained in the Greater Manchester County Record...
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Making Memories on World Refugee Day
If you were a refugee what would you take with you to remind you of where you came from? Sometimes all someone can take with them are their memories. The Archives+ team wanted to connect with a...
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Warm welcome at Longsight Neighbourhood Festival
You would expect a date in midsummer to be warm and sunny but June 23rd 2013 was cold and wet. It didn’t dampen the spirits of visitors to the Longsight Neighbourhood Festival and the Archives+ team...
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Changes Afoot
The more observant of you may have noticed some changes to our blog and social media profiles (don’t worry if you haven’t, there isn’t a test!) and there have been announcements about our temporary...
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The Big Friday Find
This weeks Friday Find is a thought provoking one. The photo shows a First World War recruitment campaign in Piccadilly Gardens. It is 99 years ago today that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was...
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Armed Forces Day and Archives+ event
June 29th 2013 was Armed Forces Day, a national day to celebrate and appreciate their role .There is so much material relating to the armed forces in the archives that we were spoilt for choice when it...
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Crumpsall Carnival , June 30th 2013
Archives+ set up their stall at Crumpsall Carnival. Fancy dress didn’t feature, but children could practice their Victorian copperplate handwriting with a real dip pen and ink. Visitors to their stall...
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Take up the Creepy House Challenge this summer
On July 4th the Summer Reading Challenge was launched at Clayton Hall. This summer’s scheme theme is Creepy House. There is nothing creepy about Clayton Hall. It’s a lovingly restored historic house in...
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The Big Friday Find
Rhubarb, Rhubarb I first came across this photograph in 1982. I was a researcher at Manchester Studies, then part of the Polytechnic. We brought in family photographs and films and also went out to...
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Mega Mela Meltdown
Archives+ were invited to take a stall in the Craft Tent at the Manchester Mela. This wonderful festival celebrating South Asian culture took place at Platt Fields on the hottest weekend of the year...
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A Dusty Hall Of Fame – The Big Friday Find
This weeks Friday Find was prompted by Nicky finding this lovely picture of Dusty Springfield at the Charter Street Ragged School Christmas Fair in December 1969. We had a lovely couple of minutes...
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Armenians in Manchester
My name is Sarah and I’ve recently started volunteering with Archives Plus. In September I start my final year as a Visual Arts student at Salford University, where my work involves combining art and...
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A Source of Pride
Yesterday I took a small selection of posters and documents from our LGBT archive collection to an event at the City Library. Esquire Literary Salon presented Cackle and Chorus last night, July 15th,...
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Work Experience Week
My name is Bryson Kwan. I was given work experience in the Manchester Chinese Centre for a week. One of the many things I have done is scanning in magazines and taking photos of the magazines to be...
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Happy birthday Manchester Central Library!
This week Manchester Central Library marked its seventy-ninth birthday. On 17 July 1934 the building was opened by King George V and Queen Mary. Thousands of children lined the streets. According to...
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A Hive of Industry – The Big Friday Find
Joanne, our Communities officer, and Angela, our Learning Officer, develop fixations on the most peculiar things. A few week ago it was donkeys but now they’ve been cruelly cast aside in favour of...
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Fun At The Seaside
With the hot weather becoming a bit of a fixture, we thought we’d ask Manchester, how will you be spending your free time? With the school summer holidays starting it’s the time to be thinking about...
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Armenian Listening
As I mentioned in my first post here on the Archives Plus Blog, I’ve been researching the history of Armenians in Manchester – I first became interested in this particular community when I discovered...
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A Grand Day Out
Our thoughts have turned to seaside holidays during this recent heatwave. Some people were lucky enough to go for day trips or a week’s holiday with their families. For others a day out was a rare...
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