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Still on an adrenaline high from Thursday night! Thank you for all your immense support and for taking part in celebrating our volunteer-led exhibition. Utterly happy to see the room filled with so many passionate people and visitors. Glad to meet with the #MuseumDetox gang too!

PORTICO: The Portico Library has been awarded a huge development grant to transform and ‘reunite’ its historic building… manchesterwire.co.uk/the-portico-aw…

📢 Funding news! The Portico Library in #Manchester have been awarded a development grant of £453,964 to develop plans to transform the Grade II* Listed #heritage building into an accessible and sustainable space for arts, heritage and learning 🥳 Read more: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

We’re so pleased to share that the Portico Library has been awarded a #NationalLottery @heritagefunduk grant to develop plans to: transform the unique historic library into an accessible & sustainable space for arts, books, food, learning +more for all. A lift is on the horizon!

Did you spot this @bbc article about our news? We've been awarded a development grant by the #NationalLottery The National Lottery Heritage Fund North to develop detailed plans to transform this unique and historic Library into a more accessible and sustainable space: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Just ignore the hole and keep writing! BnF MS Latin 1643; Origenes, Commentarius in Epistolam Pauli ad Romanos, interprete Rufino; 12th century; f.47v Gallica BnF

Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you to all of our members, volunteers, collaborators and funders for this remarkable year. This is The Portico Library 2023 Wrapped! 🥳 See you again from 15th January 2024!

A thread of lesser-known architectural wonders that we lost over the ages (and what happened to them)... 🧵 1. Old London Bridge - the longest inhabited bridge in Europe

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

#DovestoneReservior

Political activist Bung Thaluwang passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest, as reported by news sources. According to the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, the 28-year-old had been detained on a lese-majeste charge since January 26, when her bail was revoked due to violating

#JobOpportunity: The Portico is looking for an experienced and dynamic business development consultancy to create a financially sustainable Business Plan to guide and shape the Library’s future operations as part of its Reunited project with the Heritage Fund. Contract Type:

This is what great writing looks like:

Calling history #teachers and anyone interested in our exhibition Infamous, we have now added new Key Stage 3 Resources as well as a PDF version of the the catalogue online. These connect Manchester’s social #history & the Industrial Revolution with the Opium War 1839-1842 in

Barbara is all of us

We’re back open today with our new exhibition #WeirdasFolk. Though we say so ourselves, it is amazing with books, objects from The Folklore Centre, Todmorden, expertise from so many people, film, a Spotify playlist and our boggart Bryan. Obviously vote but if you want to escape the election and

The current session in New Dock Hall is 'Supporting decolonisation in museums: focus on Ukraine', which looks at a new museum guide due to be published this year. It uses the MA's 2021 Supporting Decolonisation in Museums guidance as a model 👉 ow.ly/K9ex50U50lb

For those who came to our Museums Association #Museums2024 session this morning, here are links to some of the legislation, documents and programmes we mentioned. First up, the Anti-Racist Wales Action Plan: gov.wales/anti-racist-wa…