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Blue John Mines – Hope Valley
Blue John Caverns is one of numerous caverns and caves located within the beautiful Hope Valley in Derbyshire. It has been a popular attraction with locals and tourists alike for many years. According...
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The Munich Air Disaster
ITV Script for the match between Manchester United and Red Star Belgrade which ended in a 3-3 draw. Today marks 58 years since the Munich air disaster on the 6th February 1958. The crash killed 23...
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Tameside Oral History Project
For my first blog, I wanted to focus on minority communities within Greater Manchester. I narrowed my search to immigrant communities, as my grandparents were immigrants who had come to England from...
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The lead up to 1939 evacuation
In 1939, there were 190,000 children and priority adults within the area of Manchester that would be at risk of air raids upon the outset of World War Two. By April of 1939 therefore, meetings had...
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Celebrating Wibbly Wobbly LGBT Histories in @LGBTHM
I’m reading Prejudice and Pride: LGBT Activist Stories from Manchester and Beyond at the moment. It’s kinda structured around the main themes and recollections from the This Is How We Got Here oral...
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A Guide to Accessing & Using Archives for Creative Projects
Archives have always held a fascination for history students but there is plenty to explore for students of other disciplines. Students of art and design, photography, music, poetry, drama and other...
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Greater Manchester Sound Archive commission
VICKY CLARKE The Greater Manchester Sound Archive is the new collection of sounds at Archives+ , Central Library in Manchester. It is a rich sonic treasure trove charting the socio-political history...
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The Digitising Process- The WWI Log Books Project
2014 was the anniversary of the start of the First World War. As a volunteer at Archives+ I was given the opportunity to search through school log books from Greater Manchester to look for anything...
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Hungarian Refugees in Manchester
With the Hungarian uprising against the Soviet Regime in October 1956 came a great many of refugees who were escaping the secret police. Thousands ended up in Manchester and were housed in Styal...
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Songs of Protest, Soldiers
A sympathetic song from the ‘Songs of Protest’ radio series describing the hardship a soldier would endure. The invention of the electric telegraph allowed the horrors of the Crimea war to be read...
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Songs of Protest, Civil Rights.
The ‘Songs of Protest’ radio series is a fantastic production concerning many different social issues. This chosen radio show is focused on the civil rights movement. The show compromises of both...
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The Dance Trains
Saturday night dancing! Who doesn’t remember the excitement and the joyful days of Saturday nights in Blackpool during the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s? ‘[…] I was under age to go dancing […] It...
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‘Manchester Took It Too’– The City’s Stoicism During The Blitz
On the 19th of July 1940, Hitler made a speech to the Reichstag which was later transcribed and dropped in bundles over the country in August of the same year; it stated the following: “If the struggle...
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Air Raids in WWII
In this interview George Woods gives his account of what it was like being caught up in the blitz. On this occasion George’s family did not have time to make it to the air raid shelter a few streets...
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Adolph Brodsky- A WWI story of a Russian musician trapped in Austria
Reading through some letters from members of the Hallé Orchestra during the period of the First World War I became interested in the story of Adolph Brodsky, a Russian Violinist who found himself...
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Rediscover Manchester through the Local Image Collection
The Manchester Local Image Collection contains over 80,000 online images of Manchester’s people, streets and buildings stretching right back to the nineteenth century. It’s a great way to access our...
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Who was Paul Graney?
Central Library hosts a special event as part of the Manchester Histories Festival on the evening of 7 June. A Life in Sound: The Sounds & Stories of Paul Graney celebrates the creator of the...
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The Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857
Many of us will be familiar with Manchester’s industrial heritage but did you know that Manchester once staged the greatest temporary art exhibition the country, and possibly even the world, has ever...
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The Life and Sounds of Paul Graney
This is a blog post of an event held on 7 June 2016 at Manchester Central Library as part of the Manchester Histories Festival. It was written and presented by Fiona Cosson, Historian at Manchester...
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Pre ‘Northern Quarter’ Days
The Northern Quarter could arguably be described as the ‘hippest’ area of Manchester with its cool cafe’s, trendy watering holes, music venues and quirky shops. It is a place that inspires and breeds...
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