28 August, 2015
James Mulhall, reporter for the Irish Post, was shown around the Adopting Britain exhibition at the Southbank Centre recently by Andrew Steeds, MMP project manager. His review of the exhibition (Tuesday 25 August) has a clear focus on the section of the exhibition looking at Irish immigration into England, for which the Archive of the Irish in Britain was centrally responsible, but an equally clear enthusiasm for the larger ambition of the Migration Museum Project.
Photograph of the display of artefacts from the Archive of the Irish in Britain
This week Radio Leicester has been showcasing more of its ‘100 Stories of Migration in Leicester’, a collection of audio accounts of the lives of people who have moved to Leicester from other parts of the world or country. This series, which was set up by Dimple Patel (the community outreach manager at BBC Radio Leicester), was originally designed to complement the display of 100 Images of Migration, when this was on show at the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies.
Our project manager Andrew Steeds was interviewed on this story for Radio Leicester’s morning show this Monday. You can hear the interview here (it’s at 2h 40m 42s into the show).
A selection of the Radio Leicester Stories of Migration were featured in Adopting Britain, the exhibition in the Southbank Centre, to which the Migration Museum Project has been a proud contributor!
10 August, 2015
Boyd Tonkin reviews the Huguenot Exhibition at Boughton House – and our contribution to it – for The Independent.
Visitors to Boughton House this month who expect to find a cosy “heritage” display of family treasures may be in for something of a shock. A room in one wing of this English answer to the palace of Versailles sets the scene for its summer exhibition. An explanatory panel has a photo of one of those familiar but still shocking signs from the boarding-houses of late-1950s London: “No Coloureds”. Next to it stands a recent picture from the southern Mediterranean of a tiny boat crammed with desperate migrants.
[…The exhibition] plants the influx of around 50,000 Huguenots into England firmly in context. It becomes one chapter in a longer story of persecution, migration and the quest for refuge. So that introduction, with its startling contemporary parallels, draws on material from the Migration Museum Project, which has also curated part of the “Adopting Britain” exhibition now at the Southbank Centre.
You can read the full article in The Independent’s Arts section (5 August 2015).
If you would like to visit the exhibition at Boughton House in Kettering, Northamptonshire, find details in our What’s On pages.
If you are unable to visit the Boughton House, you can view panels, images and objects from the exhibition in our Exhibitions pages.
