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Manchester Histories Festival 2026

The multi award-winning Manchester Histories Festival is back for its tenth edition.

Celebrate our histories at this free three-day festival full of events for everyone. 

Civic Pride: Celebrating Community and Belonging across Greater Manchester 
Manchester Histories Festival 2026 celebrates the spirit of civic pride and community collaboration, inviting audiences, artists, academics, and local groups to contribute to a shared story of the city’s past, present, and future. 


 

Manchester Central Library, John Rylands Library and Phil Martin Centre
Shared Topic Areas

Open Data Institute: Data Centric AI – The shifting landscape of data-centric AI

Join Open Data Institute’s Director of Research Professor Elena Simperl and special guest as they make sense of the noise, scrutinising the boom in AI agents, exploring the landscape of misinformation and disinformation on social media, and clarifying the risks posed by increasingly powerful models. 

They’ll outline the current trends in AI and what they think might be next on the horizon, always coming back to what is most important: what all of this means for data – and for you.

Online