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Below you will find links to a variety of websites containing information on archive collections, history projects, funding bodies and other useful contacts. They are arranged under the following headings:
 

Archive Collections and Catalogues

Funding and Policy

Birmingham Histories and Contacts

West Midlands Histories and Contacts

National Histories and Contacts

Photographers




Archive Collections and Catalogues

www.birmingham.gov.uk/archives

www.birmingham.gov.uk/libraries

Catalogues of archive collections in England and Wales
www.a2a.org.uk

www.archiveshub.ac.uk

Runnymede Trust archive
www.mdx.ac.uk/runnymede

Institute of Race Relations
www.irr.org.uk

George Padmore Institute
www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org

 



Funding and Policy

Museums, Libraries and Archives Council – West Midlands
www.mlawestmidlands.org.uk

Museums, Libraries and Archives Council - National
www.mla.gov.uk

Heritage Lottery Fund
www.hlf.org.uk

 



Birmingham Histories and Contacts

Digital Handsworth

Digital Ladywood

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Sites And Monuments Record - Birmingham

 



West Midlands
Histories and Contacts

Digital Midlands

West Midlands People and the Industrial Revolution
Revolutionary Players

Wolverhampton Black and Minority Experience
www.be-me.org

West Midlands BTC Network, part of Breaking the Chains, a major national initiative commemorating the bi-centenary of the abolition of the slave trade
www.breakingthechains.co.uk

 



National Histories and Contacts

The National Archives
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

British Library
www.bl.uk

www.refugeestories.org

www.untoldlondon.org.uk

Migration Experiences from the UK
www.movinghere.org.uk

Black Cultural Archives London
www.bcaheritage.org.uk

Black And Asian Studies Association
www.blackandasianstudies.org.uk

Writing British Asian Cities Project
www.leeds.ac.uk/writingbritishasiancities

 



Photographers

Vanley Burke
www.blue-tycoon.com

Pogus Caesar
www.oomgallery.net

Robert Taylor
www.taylor-photo.co.uk

 


 

 

 

 
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