Rachel Garraway

“Courage, vision, planning & fearless work”: the Congress Lives On.
📅 Mon 3 Nov | Manchester Central Library
With Gary Younge, Young Identity & Shirley May.
Reflection, resistance & creativity to honour Black histories & the 1945 Pan-African Congress. ✊🏾

Mirrors and glass panels form an angular, kaleidoscopic chamber with a square opening to the sky

We have recently added more digital archives to our collections to include a number of new collections exploring global challenges, humanitarian issues, cultural history, and scientific discovery. 🌍 💻 ow.ly/XVuU50X4oyW

Applications close on Friday! Don't miss the opportunity to apply now

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My Learning Essentials offers training and skills support all year round. Access workshops, online guides and drop-in support for academic skills, study strategies and wellbeing at a time and pace that suits you. See www.library.manchester.ac.uk/training/my-...

Meet our new collections and engagement officer.

Alongside her role at the Centre, she is co-facilitating the Safe Access Programme for the Association of Independent Museums. She is also an advisory panel member on the Guardian’s Legacies of Enslavement programme.

Got a question? Come along to our regular Library drop-in support. Our Library experts are on hand to discuss any aspects of using our resources and services. Open to all! see www.library.manchester.ac.uk/training/my-...

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

Library Teaching and Learning Support: Autumn 2025 Training and supportThe Library is here to support you during your studies and research. Our year-round training and support provides a flexible blend of workshops, online guides and drop-in support t...

The Library can support you in your studies all year round. We offer online guides, open workshops, writing support, digital skills, resources and more!
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...

Muriel Stott concept art

Main Library re-opens, featuring new study spaces at Muriel Stott. Over the summer, the Library has made some exciting upgrades to Main Library - based on what you told us matters most.

Find out more about these changes: ow.ly/vCLa50WQYlp

Black and white photograph of Mabel Tylecote getting the upper hand in a fencing match. TYL/1/4/20

Do you know how many amazing people have lived and worked in Manchester? Take a look at our blog, 'The men and women who shaped the city', and we guarantee there will be some stories you've never heard of.
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View of the exhibition showing colour photo by Jon Shard taken at Flesh club night.

View of the exhibition showing black and white photo by Stuart Linden Rhodes taken at Flesh club night.

Come Out Tonight: queer 90s nightlife, a new exhibition in Spinningfields to mark Pride 2025 in collaboration with photographers Stuart Linden Rhodes and Jon Shard.

Explore the energy and growth of the queer scene of the early 1990s. If you’re in Manchester for Pride, stop by and take a look. 🏳️‍🌈

Professor Khalid Nadvi begins new role as Head of School of Environment, Education and Development Khalid Nadvi, Professor of International Development at the Global Development Institute (GDI), has today (Friday, 1 August) started his new role as Head of the School of Environment, Education and De...

We’re delighted to welcome Prof Khalid Nadvi on his first day as the new Head of the School of Environment, Education and Development.

Khalid has held previous positions as Managing Director of @globaldevinst.bsky.social and Director of Research in the School.

Learn more: bit.ly/3UGydX6

Photograph of Barnes Wallis/Wright Robinson hall, designed by W A Gibbon of Cruickshank and Seward, image taken in 1965 (UPC/2/808)

Wood-block printed, commercial map of Sagami province, in Japanese

From Manchester’s modernist university campus to Japanese maps from the Tokugawa period (1603-1868), you can explore special collections online through Manchester Digital Exhibitions.

Browse the exhibitions here: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/resources/se... "

Meet the SEED Change-makers: how students are driving social impact at Manchester What happens when students are given the space, support, and encouragement to take action on the issues they care most about? At The University of Manchester’s School of Environment, Education and Dev...

What happens when students are given the space, support, and encouragement to take action on the issues they care most about?

The SEED Change-maker programme provides our students with the tools, confidence and platform to turn passion into action.

We're two years in, and just getting started

Need to add new materials to your reading lists for 2025/6? Please update as soon as you can so our team can purchase your items in time for Semester 1 📚
@uomseed.bsky.social

“A national reading culture cannot be rebuilt without accessible public libraries, well-supported teachers and investment in the people whose work brings books to life for children.”
Amen to this.

A Ladybird easy-reading book but it's all spelled very weird, eg the easy of "easy-reeding" is two strange E letters, a backwards Z, then a y.

Incredible article about a bunch of children - now in their 50s and 60s - who were taught to read using a doomed alternate alphabet invented by a Tory MP www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“When you walk into the library, you should be able to find at least one thing that pertains to you,”

This librarian was fired when she was just doing a hell of a good job. Kids get to be inquisitive about the world, including about who they are. Trans kids exist.

Behind the scenes at the John Rylands Library Kit Roberts ventures into the furthest reaches of The John Rylands Library as it celebrates its 125th birthday

Papped in my natural habitat @thejohnrylands.bsky.social by @manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Those without off street parking and those living in transport poverty are most at risk of losing out in the transition to electric vehicles.

Researchers call for investment in shared mobility services such as EV car clubs, pay-as-you-go schemes and improvements to public transport.

A photograph of the outside of Main Library and the outside of Alan Gilbert Learning Commons

Due to refurbishments taking place

AGLC will be closed from 17 June to 27 June.

Main Library will be closed from 30 June to the beginning of the academic year 2025/26.

We apologise for any inconvenience this causes. www.library.manchester.ac.uk/locations-an...
@uomseed.bsky.social

Five students sat around a desk in a group study room in Main Library

Teaching staff @manchester.ac.uk 📣

See our latest guidance on how to prepare your taught course materials for 2025/26

www.library.manchester.ac.uk/services/tea...

#uom #readinglists #teaching

BookTrust and Waterstones Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce… The Reading Rights report calls on national and local leaders to come together to make reading a part of daily life for every child.

'Public #Libraries have all the apparatus within them to build happiness', @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social told us at #LCSeminar2025.

Thank you Frank for a wonderful endorsement of libraries.

You can read 'Reading Rights' in full here: www.booktrust.org.uk/about-us/new...

@booktrust.org.uk

Caitlin Moran: donating blood is like giving thanks All church halls smell the same – a combination of hot dust, floor polish and tea. All church halls sound the same, whether they’re holding a jumble sale or collecting votes on polling day: a polite B...

There's a blood donor crisis at the moment - I wrote about why, even though it's sometimes under-staffed, and therefore difficult to donate blood, it's still often the biggest chance we get to ...show what fans of humanity we are: www.thetimes.com/article/ad21...

A split image down the middle. One image is of the Main Library and one image is of the Alan Gilbert Learning Commons

Due to refurbishments taking place, please note that:

AGLC will be closed from 17 June to 27 June.

Main Library will be closed from 30 June to the beginning of the academic year 2025/26.

We apologise for any inconvenience this causes. Full details: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/locations-an...

Don't forget! From this Friday, the Muriel Stott Building will be closed for redevelopment work over summer until the 2025/26 academic year.

Manchester research informs government Winter Fuel Payment changes Ongoing research at The University of Manchester into the long-term poverty faced by many older people has contributed to the Government announcing changes to the Winter Fuel Payment today.The payment...

Research from @manchester.ac.uk highlighting poverty among older adults has influenced a government decision to revise Winter Fuel Payment changes.

The 2024 restrictions risked deepening hardship for millions, now the policy is being reconsidered.

Read more ⤵️
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Two students smiling wryly in Main Library while holding a large stack of Library textbooks

Do you have old or unwanted textbooks that you no longer use?

You can donate them at Main Library so that we can make them available for other students through our Textbook Rescue programme!

Just ask at our customer service desk :)

John Rylands Library receives historic archive of Sir Harold Evans The John Rylands Library is proud to announce the donation of the personal archive of legendary journalist, editor, and author Sir Harold Evans (1928–2020). This remarkable collection, including both ...

The John Rylands Library is proud to announce the donation of the personal archive of legendary journalist, editor and author Sir Harold Evans (1928-2020). www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/j...