Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Black and Minority Ethnic History

Local

Coventry Archives

• Coventry West Indian Association: document detailing the life of Jean Jackson, founder member of the Coventry West Indian Association 2021 (Acc: PA3648)

Essex Record Office

• Firstsite, visual arts organisation, Colchester: oral histories (4) recorded i by Elsa James for her 'Black Girl Essex' project 2019 (Acc SA912)

Sheffield City Archives

• Nyara Arts, Sheffield: Passing the Baton: The Legacy of the Windrush Pioneers', memories of Sheffield's Windrush generation and Caribbean elders 2021 (X988)

Stirling Council Archive Service

• Stirling Central Regional Council: Travelling families photographs and slides 1978-1997 (A2032)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

• Woodbridge Town Council: c140 placards and signs from the Black Lives Matter protests in Woodbridge which were put up on the Shire Hall (June 2020) 2020 (EG187)

Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives

• East End Connection, community heritage project: 'Struggles of Bangladeshi Squatters' oral history project material, incl Interview recordings and publication 2020-2021

Special

Bishopsgate Institute

• Bi's of Colour, LGBTQ+ community group: papers 2015-2021 (BISOFCOLOUR)

Garden Museum Archives

• Sowing Roots - Caribbean Garden Heritage Project: recordings (15) of interviews conducted by Oral Historian Jen Kavanagh and the participants of the project, exploring the history of the gardening cultures and traditions that Caribbean people carried with them when they moved to the UK after the Second World War 2021 (CGHP)

Linnean Society of London

• John Tyley (fl1793-1800), Caribbean botanical illustrator: watercolour of a breadfruit tree, 'Artocarpus incisus' c1793-1800 (2021/01)

University

London University: London School of Economics Library, Archives and Special Collections

• Meghnad Jagdishchandra Desai (b1940), Baron Desai, economist and politician: material incl personal papers, academic outputs, speeches and newspaper articles c1950-2020 (DESAI)

Manchester University: Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre

• Anindita Ghosh (fl1999-2021), academic: archive material rel to the Singing Heritage project exploring Bengali folk songs 2019 (95)

Museum of English Rural Life

• Gurpreet Sidhu (fl2020-2022), founder of 'BLM in the Stix': interview, as part of the Museum's Building Connections project, rel to Black Lives Matter protest in rural Essex 2020 (Acc.DX2342)