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African Heritage Initiatives: Contributions of Africans to Birmingham

The African Heritage Initiative is a unique and innovative project with the aim of inspiring and empowering members of the ...
Belfast Indian Community Centre archive

The Indian Community Centre (ICC) is a voluntary organization which, through training, community development and service provision delivers good relations, ...
Birmingham Black Oral History Project

The Birmingham Black Oral History Project, based in Handsworth, was set up in 1990 by a group of organisations and ...
Black Cultural Archives

Black Cultural Archives was founded in 1981 to collect, preserve and celebrate the contributions Black people have made to the ...
BMT Film & Media Archive

Film, photography and audio archive of West Yorkshire, particularly concerned with working class dependents from the former ‘Worstedololis’ textile industry: ...
Brick Lane Archive: Our Brick Lane

‘Our Brick Lane’ is a project working with young people from the Brick Lane area to record Oral histories of ...
British Chinese Food Culture

Food, is international as well as very cultural, it reaches our hearts through the stomachs and get our attentions by ...
Chinese Lives: the Chinese in Newham

Chinese Lives is the story of Newham Chinese residents, their history, their experiences and their contribution to Newham culture. There are ...
Chinese Oral History Project

The Chinese Oral History Project, which is supported by Heritage Lottery Fund, has been organised by the Chinese Mental Health Association (CMHA) since October ...
Colourful Heritage

Colourful Heritage invites you to explore the story of South Asian and Muslim heritage in Scotland. Started in 2010, the Colourful ...
Connecting Histories

‘Connecting Histories’ is an innovative partnership project led by Birmingham City Archives, the University of Birmingham, Warwick University and ‘Black Pasts, ...
Cruel Sea Reminiscence Project

The Cruel Sea was a major reminiscence project recording the memories and experiences of Liverpool’s World War II Merchant Navy ...
Desh Videsh: Home and Away - a history of the Asian community

Hindu Nari Sangh have documented the Asian community of the North East, by tracing the lives of people who came ...
Digital Handsworth

Digital Handsworth Project was financed by the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) and provides a multimedia resource guide to the history ...
East West Festive Cultures

How do traditional Chinese festivals differ from their British counterparts and why? This project was studying the similarities and differences ...
George Padmore Institute

The George Padmore Institute (GPI) is an archive, educational resource and research centre, housing materials, including written documents, photographs, posters ...
Here to Stay

In 2005 Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre ran an HLF funded project to record the memories of people who ...
Highfields Remembered

Highfields Remembered arose out of Leicestershire’s Multicultural Oral and Pictorial Archive Project, a joint venture between Leicestershire Libraries and De ...
Kimjang Project: Making and Sharing Kimchi

Kimjang: Making and Sharing Kimchi is a brand-new project made possible by money raised by National Lottery players. It involves recording, ...
Kirklees Local TV (KLTV) Yorkshire The Years After

The seventieth anniversary of the Empire Windrush bringing invited Caribbean workers to Britain in 1948 prompted Kirklees Local TV (KLTV) ...
Legacy

Legacy is a community based project by Tyne and Wear Archives Service, dedicated to the history and heritage of black and ethnic ...
London LGBT Archive: rukus!

The rukus! Black LGBT archive mission is to create Europe’s first dedicated living archive, devoted to our heritage, culture and ...
Manchester Jewish Museum

The Manchester Jewish Community currently numbers about 35,000 – the second largest community in the United Kingdom, and dates from ...
Memories from Emilia-Romagna and Sicily

This oral history project aims to record the memories of people who migrated to this country from the regions of ...
Moving here

“Moving Here” is an online archive of the stories behind why people came to England over the last 200 years ...

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