Manchester gallery opens textile archive show tracing mill-town design
A new exhibition reconnects industrial pattern books with contemporary British makers.
Food history talks retrace Windrush kitchen routes across Britain
Recipes as archives of arrival, work and celebration.
A series of food history talks maps how Windrush-generation kitchens reshaped British high streets—through ingredients, opening hours and Sunday rituals.
Audiences cook along in some venues; others keep it to tasting and testimony.
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