Major accessions to repositories in 2019 relating to Black and Minority Ethnic History

Local

Bury Museum and Archives

• Bury College No Barriers Project, HLF project working with refugees and asylum seekers: photographs, artworks and videos which formed an exhibition at Bury Art Museum 2016-2019 (FMX/90)

City of Westminster Archives Centre

• China Exchange: The Making of Chinatown oral history project 2019 (3025)

Essex Record Office

• Evewright Arts Foundation: full-length oral history interviews with Afro-Caribbean elders who moved to Britain in the Windrush generation 2017-2018 (Acc SA869)
• Evewright Arts Foundation: oral history interview with Clarice Reid (b. 1934/1935) about moving to Britain from Jamaica in 1959, and about her life here since 2019 (Acc SA876\nSA 69/1/13/1)
• Juliana Vandegrift and Captain Umesh Kumar Pun (fl1979-2010) MVO: oral history interviews with Gurkha veterans and their wives about their military service and life before and after. Incl photographs and transcripts 2014-2015 (Acc SA879)

Rotherham Archives and Local Studies

• Rotherham Anti Apartheid Movement: records incl corresp, photographs, minutes, promotional material and reports 1987-1994 (1114-G)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

• Dr Georgie Wemyss (fl1993-2019), social sciences lecturer and member of Women Unite Against Racism: papers rel to Women Unite Against Racism 1993-1995 (TH/9754)
• Julie Begum (fl1980-2019), activist and Chair of the Swadhinata Trust: papers rel to Women Unite Against Racism c1980-1995 (TH/9755)

West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

• Records rel to Yorkshire campaigns rel to race, racial justice and fascism in Bradford c1970-1979 (WYB807)

Wolverhampton City Archives

• Black Country Visual Arts: photographs and memorabilia rel to Punjabi migration to Wolverhampton from 1960 to 1989 2016-2018 (Acc no 2932)

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

• Narendra Makanji (1952-2019), politician and activist: papers, ephemera, photographs regarding local politics in Haringey and Labour Party Black Sections 1952-2019 (MAKANJI)
• Grattan Puxon (fl1960-2019) campaigner and Gypsy Roma Traveller activist: papers, photographs, ephemera and audio-visual material regarding Gypsy Roma Traveller rights 1949-2019 (PUXON)

Royal College of Nursing Archives

• Ruth Oshikanlu (fl2006-2019), nurse entrepreneur: oral history interview conducted by Dianne Yarwood as part of the Fellows collecting project 2019 (3162)

University

Glasgow University Archive Services

• Jacqueline Margaret Kay (b1961), Scots Makar, poet & novelist: copies (2) of poem commissioned for the signing of Memorandum of Understanding that commits the University of Glasgow and The University of the West Indies to work together in the foundation of a Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research 2019 (ACCN 4305)

Heritage Quay - University of Huddersfield Archives

• Windrush: The Years After, community project: papers, objects and documents rel to community project on legacy of the Windrush generation 1958-2019 (WYA)

London University: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

• Ibidun Fakoya (fl1990-2019), health research fellow: campaign material rel to African diaspora in London HIV awareness, from Migration, Ethnicity and Sexual Health Programme (MESH) at the Centre for Sexual Health and HIV Research, University College London 1996-2014 (Fakoya)

Manchester University: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre

• Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust: recording of a reminiscence session with the Sikh Family History Project, group photograph and project paperwork 2019 (85)
• Sikh Family History Project: digital copies of historic photographs (37) of the Sikh Community in Greater Manchester c1940-2000 (85)
• North West Islamic Media Forum: digital archive of the North West Islamic Media Forum 2006-2016 (2019/2)
• Zimbabwe Women's Organisation (ZIWO): heritage project outputs incl oral histories, flyers, articles and book draft 2018-2019 (86)
• Sikh Family History Project: publications (3) with links to the Sikh Family History Project 1985-1997 (85)