Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust

General information

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre was founded in 1999 specifically to combat racist ideas about Black people, and is named in honour of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah who was murdered in 1986 in the playground of a Manchester High School.

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is an open access library that supports the study of race and ethnic history. Its collection includes over 8,000 resources available for use by students, practitioners and the general public.

We have primary material which is difficult to find elsewhere, for example, several collections of local oral history interview transcripts, including:

* Our 144-strong interview collection from Manchester's ethnic minority communities
* The original Roots Oral History Project based in Moss Side from 1986
* Interviews with attendees at the 50th memorial conference celebrating the 1945 Pan-African Congress in Manchester

Our secondary material is a great source of supplementary information for students and researchers across a variety of academic courses, and offers a wealth of material to assist with dissertations, large projects and independent studies.

The collection is organised around the key themes of history, politics, culture and identity, gender, education and employment, housing, immigration, social services, and criminal justice.

A unique cataloguing system allows visitors to identify material relevant to their research needs. The vast majority of our material is catalogued in a searchable online database:

The Centre produces the free, online journal, Ethnicity and Race in a Changing World: A Review Journal.

This is new e-journal contributing to the academic debate into race relations. It is an international, multidisciplinary journal aimed at academics, undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and practitioners in the field. It is published twice yearly and includes peer-reviewed academic essays, comment and opinion, and short book reviews. The journal is hosted on the Manchester University Press website.