North West

Practical workshop at Manchester Museum
Practical workshop at Manchester Museum

Projects

Passing on hobbies within the South Asian community

This intergenerational project engaged migrant women in sharing the hobbies they had enjoyed back home in the sixties and seventies, ensuring these pastimes weren't lost forever.

Volunteers testing the digital trail

Projects

Out and Proud Histories in Greater Manchester

The Out and Proud project explores and celebrates lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) histories and heritage across Greater Manchester using digital technologies.

A launch event for Celebrate Cumbria
A launch event for Celebrate Cumbria

Projects

Celebrating Cumbria’s LGBT history

The Celebrate project will collect memories, stories, photographs and objects in order to explore the heritage of LGBT communities in Cumbria.

Workers of Rossendale Valley’s shoe manufacturing industry

Projects

Rossendale Footwear Heritage

The Rossendale Valley's fascinating but little known history of footwear manufacturing is now being shared for the first time with a wide and diverse audience.

An illustration of a bleeding eye on a page loaded into a typewriter

Projects

Unlocking the Anthony Burgess archive

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation (IABF) celebrated the life and work of Anthony Burgess, the novelist, poet, playwright, critic and composer born in Manchester in 1917.

The room for Ancoats developed as part of the A Different Spirit project
The room for Ancoats developed as part of the A Different Spirit project

Projects

A Different Spirit

Young people worked with creative practitioners, historians, curators and local residents to uncover the history of Ancoats Art Museum.