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Major accessions to repositories in 2023 relating to Black and Minority Ethnic History |
Local
- Emmanuel Celebration Centre, Slough: Discover our Culture and Tradition Heritage Project interviews, with consent forms 2022-2023 (D/EX2964acc11121)
- Purbanat Community Interest Co: '50 Years of Bangla Brummies' project archive 1960s-2020s (MS 5092 (2023/031))
- Derby West Indian Community Association: records including constitution, annual reports, business plans, carnival programmes, evacuation plans, brochures, newsletters, magazines, reports 20th cent (D8482)
- Peter Dielhenn, (1931-2023), of Ilford and Felsted: papers and photographs relating to his service as youngest crew member on HMT Empire Windrush; and photograph albums of local buildings works, including completed interior for Fox and Hounds Hotel, Walden Road, Thaxted 1947-1990 (A16178)
- Voices: the Community Story project: oral history interviews 2022 (D1764)
- The Pothohar Association: Children of the Partition - oral history project 2022-2023 (Accession number: B23/107)
- Anthony Rampton (1915-1993), businessman and philanthropist: papers pertaining to the Committee of Inquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups chaired by Rampton 1977-1985 (Accession number: B23/111)
- Ray Gale & Suella Postles, researchers: research material including photographs and scrapbooks relating to George Africanus (c1763–1834), a West African born slave later Nottingham-based entrepreneur 1980-2023 (10530)
- The Windrush Decision: An Always Community Project: 58 oral history recordings [RESTRICTED ACCESS] 2023 (10460)
- Nyara School of Arts: unedited digital video files of 'Passing the Baton', memories of the Windrush generation and Caribbean elders 2021 (X988)
- Suffolk Windrush Committee: records 20th-21st cent (GC881)
- Bangladeshi Support Centre, Ipswich: records 21st cent (GC843)
- Hindu Community Voices in Suffolk: oral history recordings 2023 (L414)
- Manju Chaudhuri (fl1980-2020), educationalist and author: records rel to her work, in London Borough of Tower Hamlets Language Support Service, and teaching career. Also her publications for children from her publishing house, Veda Books, and books as an author, incl publicity for 'Horizon. A collection of short stories', 2020' c1980-2020 (TH/10313)
- Harrington (Harry) Delisle Cumberbatch (b1943), MBE for services to African Caribbean people with mental health problems in Tower Hamlets: papers on Tower Hamlets Afro-Caribbean Association 1984-1991 (TH/10424)
- Stepney Community Trust oral history project 'Home Machinists (Seamstresses): Untold stories of first-generation Bangladeshi Women in East End (1970-90)': digital oral history recordings 2020-2021 (TH/10466)
- Fabian Tompsett (fl1980-2010), writer, activist and artist: papers on Black and Asian Studies Association, Tower Hamlets African Caribbean Mental Health Organisation and other local organisations, as well his work at printing cooperatives and psychogeography circles, incl minutes, reports and correspondence 1980s-2010s (TH/10416)
- National Portrait Galley: Citizen UK oral history interviews 2022-2023 (DW-267)
National
- Andrea Levy (1956-2019), author: papers 20th cent (Add MS 89736)
- Dorothy Noel 'Dorf' Bonarjee (1894–1983), Indian poet and artist: papers, incl a notebook containing poetry 1915-1983 (BONARJEE)
- Warrant, dated 14 October 1652, signed by William Constable as president of the Council of State for Oliver Cromwell and Parliament asking the Commissioners of the Royal Navy to fit out the warship the Armes of Medenblick for sending to the coast of West Africa. This followed a petition from the Company of Merchants trading in West Africa for Royal Naval protection against Dutch competition in the trade of gold, ivory and enslaved Africans. 1652 (NMRN 2023/114)
- Maud Sulter (1960-2008), artist, writer and curator: professional papers 1970s-2000s (TGA 20239)
- Lubaina Himid (b1954), CBE RA, artist and curator: the ‘Making Histories Visible’ archive 1980s-1990s (TGA 202310)
University
- Michael Garfield Smith (1921-1993), Jamaican anthropologist and poet: papers, with additional material of his wife, anthropologist Mary F Smith 1940s-1990s (M SMITH)
- Fernando Henriques (1916-1976), Director of the Centre for Multi-Racial Studies, University of Sussex: papers and ephemera documenting his life and work, including anthropological research on race relations whilst at Oxford in the 1940s, Leeds in the 1950s, and Sussex and the West Indies in the 1960s and 1970s c1940-1979 (SxMs222)
- Jay Bernard, (b1988), writer, artist, film programmer, activist: papers relating to first draft of 'Surge', including research material 1973-2023 (JB)
- Faustin Charles (b1944), storyteller and writer: manuscripts of novels, stories, plays and poetry 1970-2015 (2023/UKA/3)
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