Story of Manchester's BME communities
Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre1950s-2000s
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The scope of the collection is very wide, covering the main themes of the Race Relations library as a whole, but with a focus on Manchester. The themes covered include 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.
Geographically the collection has a focus on South Manchester, particularly Moss Side, Levenshulme, Longsight and Hulme. There is also material covering Trafford, East and North Manchester and Salford as well as wider. Much material represents Manchester city as a whole.
The collection mainly comprises of leaflets, newsletters, posters, pamphlets, some letters, reports and meeting papers for various community organisations and initatives.
Title:
Story of Manchester's BME communities
Date of work:
1950s-2000s
Reference number:
GB3228.8
Level of description:
Collection
Includes:
Custodial history:
This collection is an assimilation of various accessions.
Firstly, one created by the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre in 2014 from items already in the (local studies) library collection. These books and items entered the collection in a variety of ways, including informal donation, gift and purchase. The items were selected on the basis of being particularly rare, fragile and/or important in telling the story of Manchester's BME communities. The collection was created prior to the Centre's move to Manchester Central Library, anticipating increased public access to the collection and the need to preserve certain items.
Secondly, collections of resource and reference material collected by Ananna the Manchester Bangladeshi Women's Organisation. These were collected through a project in 2015-2016, in which Ananna's organisational records were deposited with the AIU RRRC. The records within this collection were identified as archivally relevant and added to this collection.
Thirdly, a series of themed boxfiles which were created by the AIU RRC over many years, on activities in Manchester's BME communities, including photographs.
The collection is open ended and it is expected to be grow.
Arrangement:
The material has been arranged according to the following series: 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.
A lower level description has not been imposed so as to allow making additional deposits easier. A loose description at series level in the scope and content fields is complimented by detailed key word lists for each series listing key themes, ethnicity, places, organisations/people and events where relevant.
No strict order to these overall series has been imposed so as to allow the collection to expand as easily as possible.
Within the series, the material has not been rigorously organised, again to allow ease of making additional accessions.
The collections have been heavily weeded of duplication and non-archival material.
Access restrictions:
Unrestricted24 hours notice is required to view this collection. Material will then be accessible through Manchester Central Library Search Room, Manchester Central Library, St. Peters Square, Manchester, M2 5PD. Any enquiries relating to this collection please contact: rrarchive@manchester.ac.uk
Use restrictions:
Restricted
General notes:
Manchester has diverse and vibrant BME communities. A key mission of the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is to preserve and tell their stories. Within this collection are fragments of stories of many and diverse issues, events and themes within Manchester's BME history.
Related material note:
The local studies section of the library. Ananna collection. Steve Cohen collection.
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Language:
EnglishEnglish, Bengali, Gujerati, Punjabi, Vietnamese, Chinese, Hindi, Somali, Urdu, Arabic, Pakistani
Record number:
8912368
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