This is the extraordinary autobiographical story of Ali Ahmed Ismail Vohra, a highly educated engineer employed by the Railways who meticulously chronicled his story…
My great-grandma lived through Partition; her name was Mansur Faatimah Shah. I grew up listening to many stories of her endurance and bravery, about…
This account relates to my husband’s father, Chanan and his sister’s family by marriage. It’s a story of displacement and division caused by political…
Sabrina Abdihakim, a Muslim Somali residing in Northwest London, talks about her experiences growing up in London as a child and a young adult.…
Originally published on August 15th, 2022 on the Mayor of London website. Watch the full evening of discussion and reflection On a sweltering evening…
Britain’s history is one of the key fronts in our divisive identity ‘culture war’ – yet remembrance of shared history also has the power…
Lady Evelyn Murray was born in Edinburgh on the 17th of July 1867, she was the eldest child of the Earl and Countess of…
On the 18th February 1932, a 42-seater Imperial Airways aeroplane took off from Croydon, its destination: Paris. Onboard was Gladys Milton Palmer, the former…
Please note: the following article includes a word which some may find insulting and hateful. The word has been censored using asterisks. ‘Why did…
Since the publication of Prof. Ron Geaves’s commendable book, Islam in Victorian Britain, in 2010, in which he noted the existence of “The Mysteries…