Ruth Murray

You can find me here: bsky.app/profile/roothi… 🦋

We are heartbroken to share that Claire O’Shea passed away today surrounded by her loved ones. Anyone who had the privilege of meeting Claire will remember her vibrancy, humour, and incredible determination. shorturl.at/92Og1

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Well needed. At school, hardly anything was taught about Manchester, its rise as a textile city, especially cotton, the links between slavery and cotton pickers in the States as well as how financially profitable the city gained theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

Thrilled that the key role of enslaved people in Manchester's development is to be told in a major museum exhibition in the city @sim_manchester @guardian #slavery #cotton theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

Listen to Claire speak about the devastating impact of poor waiting times as Audit Wales's report on cancer services in Wales was published yesterday 👇 itv.com/watch/news/can…

"I feel like I've been massively failed by the NHS in Wales" Powerful interview by Claire for @Channel4News channel4.com/news/patients-…

Light Lab is free, warm and dry. It will delight big and small - come and play over the festive holidays!

From reducing loneliness to aiding recovery from illness, engaging in creativity and culture is proven to improve our health and wellbeing. But new research undertaken by @DCMS is the first in the UK to explore the financial benefits. Read the report👇 buff.ly/3DjE7YV

🚨New Role!🚨 Manchester Histories, on behalf of the Rocket 2030 partnership & the Liverpool to Manchester Community Rail Partnership, is seeking a Community Development Officer to drive forward the Rocket 2030 initiative & CRP. Find out more & apply: bit.ly/RocketComDevOf…

Are you a landowner, community group, school or part of a group of people who want to make a real change to your local area in and around the Peak District? Derbyshire Wildlife Trust has opened their Wild Peak Community! Find out more online at derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/wild-peak-comm…

Still here. Still brilliant. Still a major force for good in my life and lots of other people's too ❤

This is an enormous problem. It’s still not clear how Leiomyosarcoma develops. But I waited for 8 months on a gynae list before having surgery. So either my fibroid turned cancerous because of the wait. Or I had cancer all along and the 8 month wait allowed it to spread.

We launched Working Ethically With Black Histories: A Manifesto! 🖤 Unveiled at our Reimagining Black History Month event, it shares principles shaped with Manchester’s Black communities. Available now to read & download for all—link here! #BlackHistoryMonth #CommunityManifesto

Seeking Northern young people (aged 18-25 years) for a new leadership development programme. - All free. - Stipend included. - Travel and accommodation covered. - High level coaching/mentoring. We need a new generation of powerful committed Northern voices. Pls share ☺️

Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing. The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos. 1/ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Be Brave, 2014 from the neon series by UK artist Tracey Emin #womensart ♀

United States gender reveal tomorrow, I hope it’s a girl 🩷🤣

Sir Peter Murray changed the game for creativity and culture👏 He founded National Portfolio Organisation @YSPsculpture in 1977 - one of the first places in the UK to bring large-scale contemporary sculpture into the outdoors, helping people experience art in an innovative way🌳