Major accessions to repositories in 2018 relating to Black and Minority Ethnic History

Local

Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service

• Aidem Digital CIC: Digital records of "The Reality of 1947 Partition - India's Journey to Independence" HLF project and exhibition rel to the impact of Partition and Independence on Asians in Birmingham, incl video and written features 2017 (MS 4935)
• True Form Projects CIC: the History of Asian Youth project, incl oral histories and photographs (1950s-2018) 2014 (MS 4949 (2018/068))

Coventry Archives

• Davinder Rihal, dissertation (70pp) on Punjabi costume, featuring clothing shops in Coventry 1987 (PA3289)

Hackney Archives

• Hackney Anti-Apartheid Group: campaign flyers c1980-1999 (2018/16)

Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

• Photographs of Gypsy camps c1970-1979 (6066)

Hounslow and Feltham Local Studies Service

• SAGAR Asian Ladies Group: transcription of oral history session and brief essays on "My Hounslow" theme 2018 (HALS/ARC 488)

Lancashire Archives

• AAWAZ Accrington Hyndburn Oral History Project: oral history recordings and associated exhibition materials incl display board and posters 2017 (DDX 3211)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

• Africa Centre Ltd: records incl minutes, annual reports and accounts, administration papers, building plans and photographs and audio-visual material 1958-2017 (B18/071)
• Iranian Association: records rel to oral history project 'Cultural History of the Persian Carpet in Britain' 2016-2018 (LMA/4753)
• London Gypsies and Travellers: records incl minutes, reports and publications, audio-visual material, and subject files rel to health, youth work, rights, and relocation and traveller sites 1971-2012 (B18/035)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

• Eastside Community Heritage: oral histories from the 'Somali Seafarers: Surviving the Sea' Project 2018 (TH/9739)

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

• Roi Ankhkara Kwabena (1956-2008), anthropologist: recorded songs and poetry 2003 (BA16232)

National

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)

• Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities: reports and submissions on public policy and legislation 1995-2016 (D4697)

University

Manchester University: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre

• Abdul Malik Choudhury Bakht (1924-1977), businessman: papers rel to early South Asian Settlers in Manchester 1950-2018 (GB3228.76)
• Anwar Ditta (b1953), immigration activist: papers rel to Anwar's life and her legal case to allow her children to come to the UK incl corresp, newspapers and campaign material 1970-2000 (2018/02)
• Crescent community radio: papers rel to project outputs incl oral histories from the Kashmiri Lives HLF project 2018 (2018/13)
• Limelight (Trafford Housing Trust): life stories and oral histories of Windrush generation resident in Limelight housing trust accommodation in Trafford as part of the Home: Different Journeys, One Life project 2018 (GB3228.80)

Newcastle University: Special Collections

• Moniza Alvi (b1954), poet: papers incl a notebook with poetic drafts 2016-2018 (MA)