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
© Penny Ryan
A video on Moving Hearts, a collaboration between Australian artist Penny Ryan and Professor Anna Reading and Dr James Bjork from King’s College London in 2018. Moving Hearts built on Penny’s Connecting Hearts Project, which has involved 1000s of people in Sydney reflecting on their connection with people seeking asylum, particularly those in detention. We hosted a series of art workshops… Read more
Historian, producer, presenter and Migration Museum trustee David Olusoga delivered our 2018 Annual Lecture at SOAS on 22 November 2018, arguing that, to make sense of contemporary Britain, we need to recover the global aspects of our history and culture. Read more
To mark the launch of The Good Immigrant USA, its editor Chimene Suleyman and contributors to the best-selling UK edition Inua Ellams and Darren Chetty joined us at the Migration Museum in March 2019 to read from the new collection of essays and compare the current state of discussions and debates around identity, culture, language and belonging on both sides of the Atlantic. 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
© 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
A selection of audio food stories from our Room to Breathe exhibition. Read more
To kick off our Migrants Mean Business series, we’ve got a cracking conversation with one of the most charismatic and recognisable business leaders of the past few decades – Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. His conversation with Daniel Franklin, executive and diplomatic editor of The Economist, ranges from shipping to dog walking, suing Netflix to going head to head with Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary. Read more
Episode 2 of Migrants Mean Business features a conversation between George Alagiah and entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE. Lloyd founded Travelex at the age of 24 from one small shop in London and grew it to become the world’s largest foreign exchange specialist. Lloyd and George’s wide-ranging conversation explores Lloyd’s business and philanthropic career, his family roots and Jewish identity, the essence of entrepreneurialism and whether one ever stops being a ‘migrant’. 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
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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
There’s been a huge explosion of interest in genetic genealogy and personal DNA testing. But how much do we know about Read more
