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🎉 The @RemakingBritain team are excited to launch a new resource which explores how South Asians have shaped British life since the 1830s
To celebrate, the team have handpicked 5 entries to spotlight 🔦
Find out more this #SouthAsianHeritageMonth 👉 bit.ly/3GAAujr
ALT DJ Radical Sista cues up a record at a Bradford Daytimer, c.1989. Image Credit: Tim Smith.
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In February 1825 Benjamin Constable joined the East India Company as a London warehouse labourer aged 20. When he died in June 1896 he was described as a gentleman, after rising up the ranks of society to be a prison governor.
blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2025…
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This is so sad. Fauja Singh was an icon and inspired so many. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025…
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Are you a PGR interested in Postcolonial Studies? Are you interested in gaining experience in a director role? We want to hear from you!
The NVPoco network will need a new director for the coming academic year.
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Such a joy to hear Tanika Gupta discussing her brilliant play The Empress, with the wonderful Dr Lesley Nelson-Addy. We loved delving into the play's context with Dr @FloStadt & getting teaching tips from Blue Coat School.
Email [email protected] for the CPD recording
ALT Screenshot from live-streamed session showing still images of all six speakers smiling. In the top left, Dr Lesley-Nelson Addy wears a grey top and headphones; on the right teachers Harmanvinder Panesar, Dale Collett and Naomi Reid sit against a red background showing a handmade red and black display about the play, The Empress. At the bottom left, playwright Tanika Gupta is surrounded by posters and published versions of her plays; at the bottom right Dr Florian Stadtler wears glasses and a white shirt.
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From seafarers mistreated and abused during the British Empire era, to workers fighting for fair treatment in UK factories in the 1970s, @taj_ali1 celebrates the often overlooked legacy of activism by working-class South Asians.
Artwork by Hyphen
hyphenonline.com/2024/11/21/…
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That solidarity was returned when Asian women at Kewal Brothers factory (Smethwick) went on strike against an Asian boss who made them work in sweatshop conditions. 150 miners from Staffordshire with barely enough money to feed their families hired coaches to stand in solidarity.
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Great event on Islamophobia at the Indian Workers' Association HQ in Handsworth. It was from this very poor Black and Asian community that thousands of pounds were raised to support striking miners in 1984. Funds and food were sent to miners across the Midlands and South Wales.
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The working class in Britain is multiracial and multifaith but very rarely is class discussed in these terms. My latest column for @onlinehyphen on the struggles of the South Asian working class — past and present.
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APPLY NOW!: Applications are now open for the 2025 Spring/Summer cycles at The 1947 Partition Archive. The application deadline for the Spring cycle is January 15th, 2025, and March 1st, 2025, for the Summer cycle.
Please apply at: bit.ly/1947internships
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We explore the British Indian Army story, contribution to WW1 & WW2. Why it should be taught in every UK School, in this documentary on diversity in curriculum. Almost a million Muslims served in WW2, a disgrace they are often forgotten. #RemembranceSunday
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018wz…
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Further India Office Records now available online via the interim Digitised Manuscripts webpage.
blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2024…
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English & Drama teachers! Join the celebrated playwright Tanika Gupta, for free online CPD on The Empress on Dec 3.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-empre…
Meet the author, with Dr Lesley Nelson-Addy, Dr @FloStadt & @BlueCoatCofE teachers, to inspire & support you to teach the play at KS3-5.
ALT Photograph of Tanika Gupta smiling into the camera, alongside a black and white photograph of an Indian ayah or nanny seated outside, with two toddlers standing on either side of her.
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कहानियाँ Kahaniyan of South Asia 📣
Launching a new trail at the National Museum of Scotland and collection of stories with Networking Key Services.
nms.ac.uk/SouthAsianStories
Illustration: Jewellery (left) once belonging to the Maharaja Duleep Singh (right).
✒ @MaliniChakraba1
ALT An illustrated pair of ornate earrings in green and gold next to an illustration of the Maharaja Duleep Singh.
South Asian Britain retweeted
In celebration of #SouthAsianHeritageMonth, find out more about the new @RemakingBritain project!
This @ahrcpress funded project will explore the history of South Asian connections and networks in Britain, from the 1830s to the present
bit.ly/3rVsxNM
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ALT Atiya Fyzee (1877-1967), author, social reformer and arts patron. Source: Basanta Koomar Roy, “Picturesque India”, The Mentor vol. 9 (May 1, 1921).
South Asian Britain retweeted
Interested in exploring British South Asian histories and stories?
We're excited to be a partner on 'Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present' - find out more on the thread below ⬇️
We’re excited to launch Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present. It is an @ahrcpress-funded research project led by the @BristolUni (@smukherjee_hist, @FloStadt & Aleena Din) and @QMULsed (@RehanaSara & @maya_parmar), with @britishlibrary.
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New jobs: two postdoctoral research associates to work with Hilary Carey and Sumita Mukherjee on their AHRC funded project ‘Mariners: Religion, race and empire, 1801-1914’.
Both for 33 months 1.0FTE starting 1 January 2023. Closing date: 31 October 2022.
bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/deta…
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This is one of the many entrepreneurs' stories featured in @MigrationUK Taking Care of Business exhibition atm. Thanks for sharing it w your networks too Hadiqa!
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From tomorrow our fantastic new exhibition ‘Maharajah Duleep Singh: Norfolk’s Princely Family’ Mon 4 Jul – Fri 30 Sept. from the collection of Sikh historian Peter Bance #DuleepSingh
