Everything But A Beach podcast recorded in the BIPC
Everything But A Beach is a podcast that uncovers the hidden history of Manchester and its surrounding region. Created by journalists Chris Osuh, Dean Kirby, and Yakub Qureshi, the podcast…
Category History and heritage
RE:SOUND with Anthony Szmierek
As our final highlight for Heritage Open Days 2024, we’re sharing a wonderful film from Manchester City of Literature showcasing the Re:Sound project featuring BBC 6 Artist of the Year…
Manchester Books no.3 July/August 2024
This time we highlight two new titles about Manchester’s music/club scene. Sacha Lord’s Tales from the Dancefloor tells of his 3 decades of involvement with the Manchester music scene from…
Central Library 90/10: an Exhibition
An exhibition to celebrate 90 years since Central Library opened and 10 years since its Transformation. Manchester Central Library in St Peter’s Square was opened on the 17th of July…
Manchester Books Issue 2
A regular look at new books on MANCHESTER, and its districts, available in Manchester Libraries. Matt Cain’s new novel One Love is set in the Manchester Gay Village. You might…
Preserving Digital Archives in Greater Manchester
Following a successful bid to The National Archives Resilience Fund, Manchester Libraries and Archives is delighted to be awarded a grant of £13,622 for a Greater Manchester wide project to…
Black British Book Festival
Here’s a fantastic opportunity for talented Black British authors and writers – the Call for Pitches for the Black British Book Festival 2024 is officially OPEN! Here’s how you can submit…
Book News
A regular look at books about Manchester available in Manchester Libraries. New fiction – crime is always a favourite and recent new additions are the Generation Killer by Adam Simcox,…
Share Your Central Library Memories
Do you have any memories of Central Library? Are you happy to share them with us? For the library’s 90th anniversary, and 10 years since the newly restored Central Library…
Nursing Stories
We currently have a small exhibition on the ground floor of Central Library highlighting items from our collections relating to nurses/nursing and the stories they tell. We have included the well…
Fascinating new exhibition showcases century’s old advertising archive of Manchester Ship Canal
Port of Manchester illustration
Manchester Central Library hosts Black British Book Festival event
Manchester has been unveiled as one of cities taking centre stage in a summer tour to celebrate the Black British Book Festival this year. In its third year the Black…
Local and community history month
We are excited to launch rate books for the boroughs which now make up Greater Manchester available for free on Findmypast at all Manchester Libraries. These sources, which locate families…
Richard Cobden – Manchester Citizen to ‘International Man’
An exhibition tracing Richard Cobden’s life, career and legacy opens at Manchester Central Library, 5 April-30 June 2023
Marcus Rashford Book Give-Away. Calling all Manchester High Schools!
Marcus Rashford selection of books 'You Can Do It' and 'You Are A Champion'
Manchester Culture Awards 2022 – winners announced
The annual awards were launched by the city council in 2018 to acknowledge Manchester’s rapidly growing reputation for culture and the arts, and to pay tribute to the very best…
Manchester celebrates 5 years of being a UNESCO City of Literature
In 2017, after a successful bid to UNESCO, Manchester became a UNESCO City of Literature and joined other cities such as Dublin, Barcelona, Prague, Melbourne, and Reykjavik in the prestigious…
Read Widely – October
As our Read Widely in 2022 promotion moves on to October, Black History Month offers the perfect opportunity to celebrate, with our selection of inspirational titles by authors of colour.…
Celebrate Black History Month 2022
Manchester Libraries are proud to represent the diversity of the city in our activities and events programme. Each October is Black History Month and this year we are pleased to…
Read Widely – August 2022
To all the book lovers out there looking for some literary inspiration, check out our Read Widely in 2022 campaign, Manchester Libraries year-long promotion of fabulous fiction by authors of…