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Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE (Race Archives and Community Engagement) Centre

Community Experiences

Explore catalogues for material which illustrates the experiences of Greater Manchester’s many and varied communities.

We are working towards making the catalogues available and searchable on Archives Hub. For those collections not yet available on Archives Hub, please email us for more details.

Carnival Collection

Correspondence, committee transcripts, newspaper clippings and photographs of Manchester Carnival donated by Locita Brandy, one of the founders of Manchester Carnival.

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Dashera Diwali Photographic Collection

Photographs of the Dashera Diwali Mela, which has been organised by the Manchester Indian Association since 2006.

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Manchester Ukrainian Community

A collection of photographs of the Manchester Ukrainian Community in the 1950s-1960s; booklet celebrating 60 Years of the Ukrainian Saturday School in Manchester 1954-2014; oral history with Zenka Mitchell, 2019.

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Manchester BME Communities Collection

This collection is an accumulation of different accessions relating to Manchester's diverse communities, arranged into the following themes: art and culture, religion, heritage, charitable causes, benefits and support, police and justice, racism and anti-racism, housing, elderly, children and young people, employment, education and health, women, refugees and immigration, community support and development, general community information, individuals, photographs.

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Northern Carnival Against the Nazis Collection

Material relating to the Northern Carnival Against the Nazis concert which took place in Alexandra Park, Manchester, in 1978, and other Rock Against Racism concerts.

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