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Contemporary Gothic Reading Group: Susan Barker on her new novel, Old Soul

15:00 - 16:30 4 June 2025
As part of Manchester City of Literature’s Festival of Libraries 2025, Manchester Metropolitan University presents a special edition of its Contemporary Gothic Reading Group. This…

Creative Café: Crafting Connections – A Heritage for Wellbeing Toolkit (Festival of Libraries 2025)

13:00 - 14:45 4 June 2025
Join Creative Manchester and Manchester Histories as they unveil their new Heritage for Wellbeing Toolkit, designed to spark creativity and foster meaningful connections. This toolkit…

Playing with Cruelty: Pop Culture, Performativity, and the Stanford Prison Experiment

16:00 - 18:00 4 June 2025
Professor Stephen Reicher (University of St. Andrews) in conversation with Professor Stephen Scott-Bottoms (University of Manchester) This special event marks the UK launch of a new…

Reggae and Dub Poetry in the UK: A Northern perspective

18:00 - 20:30 4 June 2025
Karen Gabay x Creative Manchester x British Pop Archive This event is a rare opportunity to hear from three musicians from the North West of England, sharing their personal testimonies…

Collecting, Studying, Controlling Animals in East Asia

10:00 - 12:30 12 June 2025
Join in person or online for an exciting international workshop that explores recent and deep animal histories in East Asia, at their intersections with state power, imperialism, museum…

Murder in Cairo: Solving a Cold War Spy Mystery

17:15 - 19:30 12 June 2025
In collaboration with Creative Manchester, join us for an event celebrating the legacy of Manchester-born Sir Harold Evans (1928-2020), legendary editor, journalist and author. Hear…

A Queer History of Pop: Jon Savage in conversation with Emma Warren

18:30 - 20:30 19 June 2025
Celebrating the release of the new paperback edition of this seminal book, Jon reflects on the various topic's, themes, influences and the creative process of researching and writing…

Where Punjab and Aboriginal Australia Meet: Debbie Bargallie

18:00 - 19:30 25 June 2025
Punjabi Dreaming: Restoring Kinship, Defying Erasure, and Reclaiming Home Debbie Bargallie, Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University With Awais Hussain, Doctoral student, University…

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