Welcome to the outputs section of our website.
Here you will find links to publications, videos and audio outputs that we have created, many of which illuminate or expand on our current or past events and exhibitions.
For more information on our project, please visit the About Us section of our website.
100 Stories of Migration in Leicester train station
© Photograph by Kajal Nisha Patel
100 Stories of Migration at the Leicester Museum Studies Building
© Image courtesy of 100 Stories of Migration curator Sarah Plumb
Guests at the Germans in Britain exhibition launch at the German Historical Institute London on 6 Oct 2014.
Guests at the Germans in Britain exhibition launch at the German Historical Institute London on 6 Oct 2014.
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A video showcasing our inaugural Moving Stories competition, in partnership with exam board OCR, in which teams of students studying OCR’s migration GCSE history units were invited to design a new exhibition based on an aspect of their studies, with the winning team jetting off to New York City in summer 2018. Read more
Watch historian, producer and presenter David Olusoga, one of our Distinguished Friends, speaking at the launch of our Room to Breathe exhibition on 31 October 2018. Read more
A video showcasing our exhibition No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain. Read more
Journalist and author Gary Younge looks at how immigration is understood in the current age and what the consequences are in terms of migration, social anxiety and democracy. Read more
BBC newsreader and journalist George Alagiah, one of our Distinguished Friends, spoke at the launch of the Migration Museum at The Workshop in May 2017. Read more
Highlights of the launch party for our Migration Museum at The Workshop. Read more
A video of a talk organised by The Open University and hosted at the Migration Museum at The Workshop in July 2017, in in which academics and third sector representatives came together to problematise the ‘migrant as outsider’ discourse. Read more
A video of a talk organised by The Open University and hosted at the Migration Museum at The Workshop in July 2017, in which participants discussed statelessness as displacement and looked at what this means for our wider understanding of displacement, expulsion, and exclusion from states and international systems. Read more
Curator Sue McAlpine takes us behind the scenes to explain the objectives and approach to the Migration Museum Project’s exhibition Call me by name: stories from Calais and beyond. Read more
A video showcasing our Call Me by My Name: Stories from Calais and Beyond exhibition at Londonewcastle Project Space in London in June 2016. Read more
What if a picture could tell a story? This short film by Lola Gazounaud explores stories of second and third generation migrants. Read more
© The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Lily Ebert tells the incredible story of her small gold pendant, a photograph of which features in our 100 Images of Migration exhibition. Read more
Lord Moser, a Distinguished Friend of the Migration Museum Project, shares his thoughts on the value of migration. Read more
Joanna Lumley is a Distinguished Friend of the Migration Museum Project and joined Neil MacGregor (Director of the British Museum) in opening our second touring exhibition, Germans in Britain, at the German Historical Institute in Bloomsbury on 6th October 2014, where she delivered this rousing speech. Read more
On 22nd October 2014, Lord Moser and playwright Carl Miller joined writer Susie Harries in conversation at the Goethe Institut London for a Migration Museum Project Great Minds event in partnership with CARA. Read more
A selection of audio food stories from our Room to Breathe exhibition. Read more
© Migration Museum Project
Listen to a panel discussion on the role of the media in shaping and influencing the national debate around migration, featuring Liz Gerard, former Times journalist and independent blogger of the year; Jakub Krupa, UK correspondent for the Polish Press Agency; Abdulwahab Tahhan, a Syria-born, UK-based journalist. The discussion was chaired by Sunder Katwala, director of British Future and former journalist. Read more
© Kishwar Desai
Listen to our 2017 LSE–MMP annual lecture on Partition, 70 years on, given by Lady Kishwar Desai. Read more
© Migration Museum Project
On 18 November 2015, Robert Tombs delivered our second Annual Lecture in partnership with the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Listen to the audio podcast. Read more
Audio podcast and transcript of Michael Rosen’s The Languages of Migration talk for the Migration Museum Project – London School of Economics inaugural annual Public Lecture. Read more
Immigration used to involve packing an entire life into a suitcase and moving to a new country for good. Now, with modern communications and transport, it is far more fluid and dynamic. Modern migrants need not lose contact with their old homes; they can keep old ties refreshed; and families can span the globe. Children… Read more
Great Minds is a new series looking at how people from migrant backgrounds have contributed to life in the UK in different fields Read more
There’s been a huge explosion of interest in genetic genealogy and personal DNA testing. But how much do we know about Read more
