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Peg Dolls and Ink Wells: Archives+ at Wythenshawe Hall
To celebrate the May Day Bank Holiday weekend, Wythenshawe Hall held an Open Day on Sunday May 5th. This was a great opportunity for the Archives+ team to get involved in an event that combined history, community and families. Joanne … Continue reading
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Behind the Scenes : Settling in at Greater Manchester Record Office
My name is Nicky Crewe. I started work at the Greater Manchester County Record Office on April 2nd. I am the National Archive trainee, and will be here for a year. It’s going to be a very significant twelve months, … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Conservation, Events
Tagged @mcrarchives twitter feed, Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre, archives, Central Library, Documentary Photographic Archive, Elliot House, Friends of Clayton Hall, Greater Manchester Record Office, Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society, Manchester Council for Community Relations, Manchester Studies, The National Archives, The North West Film Archive
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Digitising Images of the First World War From the Documentary Photographic Archive
My name is Keith Johnson and I have been working behind the scenes at Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives for the last few months, the majority of the time digitising photographic negatives by scanning and saving them to computer as … Continue reading
Fred Haughton: Horwich Loco Worker and War Hero
My name is Chris Atkinson. I started my customer services apprenticeship at Manchester City Council in October 2012. Since then I have been working at Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives helping the public search our archive and local history collections. … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Family History
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LGBT History Month
As LGBT history month is drawing to a close – we’ve selected items from our collection that document the LGBT community and activism in Manchester. First up we have a promotional leaflet for Flesh club night at The Haçienda, 29 September 1993. … Continue reading
Abraham Lincoln and Manchester
It may seem unusual for Manchester to have a statue of Abraham Lincoln, as there are no obvious links to the 16th President of the United States. In fact, Manchester was a very important ally to Abraham Lincoln’s Union during … Continue reading
Manchester Parish Registers
Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives and Ancestry.co.uk have made available, online, a large collection of Church of England parish registers which span 1541 – 1930. The collection includes over 6,000,000 names recorded during baptisms, marriages and burials at Anglican churches … Continue reading
Aerial Bomb Maps Explored
In the last blog post we covered how to build a detailed picture of the bombing of Manchester during the Second World War; we briefly touched on 1930s aerial bomb maps, which we are going to explore in a little … Continue reading
Posted in Collections, Health and Living Conditions
Tagged archives, Blitz, CHICC, Christmas Blitz, Manchester, Maps, mcr, mcrarchives, Second World War
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Manchester Blitz
The Manchester Blitz, which occurred 72 years ago this month, was the bombing of the city and its surrounding areas by the German Luftwaffe between 22/23 & 23/24 December 1940. Around 684 people were killed and 2,634 injured. Manchester Cathedral, … Continue reading
