This month we have a feature on Archives Hub about our periodicals collections with some examples and how you can make an appointment to view them. There is also a link to our film event happening this Thursday! #CoopArchive #Coop180 ow.ly/irp050UiTJ3

🚨 We’re Hiring! 🚨 The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre & Library is looking for its next Head of Centre! Lead an inspiring institution, working with The University of Manchester, AIU Education Trust, and Manchester City Council to champion equality and education. 📌 Link in bio.

Our 1950's Farm is looking stunning this morning 😍

We’ll be carrying out essential maintenance and renewal work on our Tramway at the start of 2025. 🚎 The work on our tramcars and infrastructure, which is vital for the long-term running of The Tramway, will take place from January to March. youtu.be/w4fGPkPKCoM

Looks a very interesting read.

Happy #IYC2025 OTD, 1884 The Manchester Ship Canal, funded by Manchester businesses including considerable amounts from the Co-operative Wholesale Society, opened.  The first vessel to unload its cargo on the opening day was the SS Pioneer, belonging to the CWS. #IYC2025

VISITOR UPDATE: for 5/1/25 Our team will undertake checks in the morning to assess the impact of the current warning for snow. We ask that anyone planning to visit wait to leave home until we have had time to check the site. We will provide updates on our website & social media.

We usually devote our time to celebrating the good business does (big & small) but when needed we will highlight the bad also. Because tax avoidance not only robs public services of vital revenue it also undermines the ability of business to compete fairly theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

Embroidery in violet, white and green by UK Suffragette Janie Terrero, who embroidered the signatures of fellow hunger strikers imprisoned in Holloway Prison, to highlight the women's suffrage cause,1912 #womensart

A Landmark exhibition which will show the extraordinary contribution LGBTQ artists have made to popular culture is coming to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library aboutmanchester.co.uk/a-major-new-ex…

#IYC2025

Don't miss the Museum of Cambridge's temporary exhibition "Educating Cambridge"! 🎨 Now featuring artistic responses of the exhibit by local students, "Educating Cambridge" explores Cambridge education through ragged schools, workhouses, and Victorian classrooms. 🏫

Have you seen our new digital exhibition, UMIST's Modernist Moment? It contains striking pictures of an innovative style of campus architecture for Manchester, forged in the white heat of 1960s technology. Take a look here: digitalexhibitions.manchester.ac.uk/s/umist/page/i… #ThrowbackThursday

As Andy is a labour and Co-operative Mayor and if the Arc thingy is created then that will be historic. So I'm retweeting this.

April is a month that reminds us: ensuring health and wellbeing for all (SDG 3) is more urgent than ever. Cooperatives are helping lead the way toward people-centered care. Read more: ica.coop/en/newsroom/ne… #WorldHealthDay #IYC2025 #CoopsBuildABetterWorld #IYC2025 #Coops4dev🌍

Many of the men in that photo will have been called up by local draftboards, who were made up of non Co-op business leaders, who excused their own employees. Many of those men will not have survived the 1st WW. Some will have supported the creation of Co-operative Party in 1917.

Co-ops are an important part of our nation's history and could be a crucial part of our economic future That's why Co-operative Party is calling on the Government to ensure that co-ops are part of the National Curriculum Join the campaign & support Co-operative Heritage Trust party.coop/curriculum?utm…

“Yeah, why not? Help small artists. 100%.” That’s what festival-goers told us when we asked if they’d chip in to save their local music venue, especially if it meant getting a say in how it’s run.