Tag: Immigration Behind the scenesEducation in exile: Cataloguing Polish refugee education filesMonday 7 October 2024Read personal reflections from Polish refugees who came to Britain after the Second World...Records and researchRoy Sawh: From Where I StandMonday 14 August 2023In 1967, Sawh was put on trial under The Race Relations Act. Today, we...Records and researchNeither a British subject nor a British protected personTuesday 29 November 2022The First World War unleashed a significant ‘anti-alien’ backlash, focused initially on Germans living...Records and researchThe Colonial Office vs the Daily Telegraph: The case of Dominican stowawaysMonday 20 June 2022February 26th 1960 was a seemingly innocuous day in the annals of British colonial history....Records and researchRoyal Patriotic School: Interrogation of civilians arriving in UK from abroadFriday 3 December 2021From May 1940 British officials started interviewing foreign nationals or refugees arriving at British...Records and research20sPeople: ‘A Stranger in a Strange Place’Tuesday 9 November 2021‘A Stranger in a Strange Place’ follows on from ‘Once British Always British’, two...Records and researchHome truths: Improving community relations by funding trips to Commonwealth countriesFriday 22 October 2021In 1969 the Central Office of Information (COI) made a film about a scheme...Records and researchOnce British Always British: Stories of Indian and Yemeni sailors in Britain in the 1920sThursday 11 March 2021In April and May this year The National Archives will be launching two new...Records and research‘Racism Past and Present’: Mixing therapeutic practice with archival researchThursday 19 November 2020Earlier this year, before the COVID-19 outbreak, The National Archives and Stillpoint Spaces embarked...Records and researchBefore Notting Hill: Causeway Green and Britain’s anti-black hostel riotsMonday 22 June 2020The dominant narrative of post-war ‘race’ relations in Britain begins with the Empire Windrush...Archives and archivistsA face through time: Further opening up our prisoner of war recordsThursday 18 June 2020There are millions of stories, both personal and political, buried inside the hundreds of...Records and researchRemembering the past, growing the future: The story of the Pakistani community in WakefieldFriday 9 August 2019The 100th anniversary of the First World War has been noted for the way... 1 2 »