We Are Dynamite! Exhibition Opening
The Northern Carnival against the Nazis, a rally and concert held on 15 July 1978 in Moss Side, Manchester, was…
Northern Carnival Against the Nazis: 40th Anniversary project launch
The Northern Carnival against the Nazis – a rally and concert held on 15 July 1978 in Moss Side, Manchester…
The Lapsed Clubber Audio Map
Manchester Digital Music Archive has teamed up with Manchester Metropolitan University to develop an online audio heritage map that will tell the…
Queer Noise exhibition extended to November 2017
We are delighted to announce that our Queer Noise exhibition at the People’s History Museum has been extended to 5th…
Queer Noise: The History of LGBT+ Music & Club Culture in Manchester
Seventies secrecy in Salford pubs, joyous Gaychester resistance and cutting-edge, late-nineties, alternative club culture. Manchester’s musical LGBT+ history explored with…
Drake Music Lab North West: New Musical Frontiers
Over the last few months I’ve been involved in an exciting project for Drake Music that has focused on introducing…
Manchester Academy Memories
Manchester District Music Archive is proud to launch a new digital exhibition created in partnership with the University of Manchester…
Archiving Women’s Performance Practice, HOME, Jan 2016
Archives are closely linked with how we understand history and can be a site for resistance and celebration in challenging…
The First National LGBT History Festival – Queer Noise presentation, 2015
In late 2009 I acquired a small amount of funding to develop ‘Queer Noise’ – an online exhibition for Manchester…