Greater Manchester’s oldest surviving archive collection saved by Manchester City Council
![Photo of document in Assheton collection - a contract for Robert Legg to service in the Kings Wars in 1474.](http://www.manchester.gov.uk/images/Image_2___E7_15_5_1_Robert_Legg__1474__1_.jpg)
Greater Manchester’s oldest surviving archive collection has been saved for posterity by Manchester City Council.
Greater Manchester’s oldest surviving archive collection has been saved for posterity by Manchester City Council.
Manchester Central Library will play a key role in making the 1921 Census for England and Wales freely available to view when it is published online by Findmypast on 6 January 2022.
Voices of local activism from the past are brought into the present in a new musical project live-streamed from Manchester Central Library.