Events

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Events

Teenage Kicks: Andrea's story

Friday 7th June 2024 - Saturday 31st August 2024

Teenage Kicks is an exhibition about what life was like for teenage girls in Britain in the s It is based on research from the Girlhood and Later Life project led by Professor Penny Tinkler We are showing one of the eight stories in the gallery at the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester this summer Come along and see Andrea's story as she moves from her small village where her family life revolves around church…

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Virtually at the Rylands: Looking at our LGBTQ+ Collections

Friday 9th August 2024 2:00PM - 2:20PM

Hosted online by Jack Exhibitions and Public Engagement with Research and Assistant and MT Reader Services Assistant this online event will guide you through some of our LGBTQ collections from the punk scene of s London to the world of community theatre in the early twentieth century The event continues the legacy of the We Have Always Been Here exhibition by giving the opportunity for the lesser-known queer voices in our collections to shout above the rest For…

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Work and Equalities Institute Sixth Fairness at Work Conference

Tuesday 21st January 2025 - Wednesday 22nd January 2025

Fairness reimagined Multidisciplinary perspectives about work The conference aims to bring together academics and practitioners to discuss how questions of fairness and equality are being reimagined to humanise and improve work in what remains a socially politically and economically challenging landscape

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