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Abasindi Co-operative – Black History Month
As October is Black History Month, I got the chance to delve into the archives in the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Centre. Here I came across the Abasindi Co-operative – an organisation based in...
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Five life lessons we can learn from the Suffragettes
On the anniversary of the vote for women, which was finally awarded when the Representation of the People Act 1918, gave some women the right to vote, it is remarkable to note what an inspiration the...
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Tracing Your Female Ancestors: Improving Women’s Lives
By Rita Greenwood This blog is one of a series by members of the Manchester and Lancashire and Family History Society in celebration of our female ancestors in the centenary year of the Representation...
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Divides as it segregates: Why can’t we use sport for good?
As part of Black History Month at Central Library, I have decided to make use of the outstanding collection of archives in the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, as well as other...
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Tracing your Suffrage Activist Female Ancestors
Was someone in your family a high profile activist within the Suffragette or Suffragist movement? This blog is the penultimate blog in a continuing series written by members of the Manchester and...
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‘This country of graves’: Battlefield Tourism of the Great War
As the centenary of the Armistice has come to pass, 4 years of popular historical fascination surrounding the Great War seems set to somewhat subside. Yet this instance of escalated remembrance is not...
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Tracing the (Extra)Ordinary Life of your Female Ancestors
This is the final blog in a series written by members of the Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society. Over the past eleven months our members have written about all sorts of women and looked...
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The Peterloo Massacre: Before the Massacre
On August 16th 1819 a meeting of between 60,000 and 80,000 people calling for parliamentary reform was held at St Peter’s Field in Manchester. The peaceful meeting was broken up by the town’s Yeomen,...
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The Peterloo Massacre: The Journal of Henry Hunt (Part 1)
First page of Henry Hunt’s Journal Blog 2: June 1820 journal entriesOn the 16th August 1819, a gathering of citizens of Manchester and other towns in the region was violently broken up by an armed...
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“England Has Been All She Can Be to Jews, Jews Will Be All They Can Be to...
In 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War, the Jewish population of Manchester was nearly 30,000. The community lived mostly around the Cheetham Hill area of the city, and many were...
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The Peterloo Massacre: The Journal of Henry Hunt (Part 2)
Blog 2: July journal entries The Breakfast of Radicals In May 1820 the radical orator Henry Hunt was found guilty of seditious conspiracy. He was sent to Ilchester gaol for thirty months. In the July...
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The Peterloo Massacre: The Journal of Henry Hunt (Part 3)
On the 16th of August 1819, over 60,000 Mancunians took to St. Peter’s Field to ask for political reform; the peaceful demonstration that ended in the bloodied conflict we now know as the ‘Peterloo...
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The Peterloo Massacre: The Journal of Henry Hunt (Part 4)
Blog 4: September journal entries Potwallopers, Prisons and Peterloo By September 1820, Henry Hunt had spent at least three months in Ilchester County Gaol. Although Hunts complaints about the...
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Remembering Peterloo : what the Broadsides of the day reveal
The accounts of the Peterloo Massacre, as the date Monday 16th August has come to be remembered, are many. But as with any historical event, reading about it in the prose of the day allows us to...
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LGBT+, Schools and Section 28: How far have we come?
‘Teaching Blocks’, The Pink Paper, 27th January 1995. LGBT+ collection, Archives+ The debate of whether LGBT+ lifestyles, relationships and sex life should be talked about in schools under the Sex...
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BHM: Has the conversation around race progressed in a way that is making...
As a young person, the time I have spent volunteering in Archives+ has opened my eyes to a world in which I think, given my race and ethnicity, would have been an entirely more challenging experience...
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Banned Books: The blacklist
Rumours were spreading that the heads of Manchester Libraries were keeping a blacklist of books. Books that were banned from circulation in the city’s libraries. One evening in March 1911, a...
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Reflecting on the 25th anniversary of the Manchester Velodrome and its impact...
Who would have thought the velodrome in Manchester would have had the effect it has? Cycling, in its purest form, is a sport without a home. With many of its landmark moments and famous races...
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Make Music Day UK 2019: music impacting lives
“Make Music Day”, a festival first established in France as “Fête de la Musique” in 1982, is a free celebration of music taking place all over the world, in all venues, for all participants and...
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Housing for the Working Classes: Manchester's Journey
In 2019 the provision of appropriate affordable housing and the problems of homelessness were issues for politicians at a national, regional and local level. In the general election the issue of the...
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