We are thrilled to report that Prof Jackie Kay appeared alongside Her Majesty The Queen at the launch of the National Year of Reading in Scotland on Monday 19 January. The event featured other Scottish authors, local primary school children and Dennis the Menace (!), and took place at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh. The scheme […]
We are delighted to report that the general public in Scotland and elsewhere are being asked to choose which three quotes from previous Scots Makars, including Salford’s own Professor Jackie Kay, should feature on the Scottish Parliament’s Canongate Wall to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the building. Jackie’s work, alongside that of Liz Lochhead and Kathleen […]
Lecturer and Knowledge Exchange Fellow Dr Emma Barnes recently collaborated with Manchester-based community group, Southern Voices, to host public engagement event ‘Exploring legacies of Empire – Perspectives from the Global South’. The event was held on 28th June 2023 at the Working Class Movement Library (WCML) in Salford. The event was comprised of two 3-hour […]