The official 2024 Black History Month theme, Reclaiming Narratives, celebrates the crucial power of stories as a means of empowering, enriching and validating the experiences of the Black community. We’ve got a fantastic…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Port of Manchester illustration
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…
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…
An exhibition tracing Richard Cobden’s life, career and legacy opens at Manchester Central Library, 5 April-30 June 2023
Marcus Rashford selection of books 'You Can Do It' and 'You Are A Champion'
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…
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…
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.…
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…