African: Ethiopian
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Books and Pamphlets:- The woman from Tedbab, Ethiopian Jewish immigrants in Israel.Maps:- 8 titles. English and ItalianSearch the RGS online picture libraryUnlocking the Archives: the RGS education site
Read more
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
51.501502
-0.175269
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 1 Kensington Gore,
African: Egyptian
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Archive material:- The E A Floyer collection.Books and Pamphlets:- 75 books.Maps:- 44 titles. English and French.Museum Items:- Egyptian RGS centenary medal (with ribbon).Pictures:- 104 pictures. English and French.Search the RGS online picture libraryUnlocking the Archives: the RGS education site
Read more
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
51.501502
-0.175269
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 1 Kensington Gore,
African: Congolese
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Books and Pamphlets:- 1: La questione Congolese by Aristide Cornoldi. French.Museum Items:- Diagram showing the progress of the arc of meridian in Africa along 30°EPicture Library:- Diagram showing the progress of the arc of meridian in Africa along 30°E. English.Search the RGS online picture libraryUnlocking…
Read more
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
51.501502
-0.175269
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 1 Kensington Gore,
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
In June 2004 the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) opened its new facilities to the public, which provide access to one of the world’s largest geographical collections containing over two million maps, photographs, books, artwork, artefacts and documents. The collection tells the story of 500…
Read more
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers)
51.501502
-0.175269
Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 1 Kensington Gore,
Asian: Japanese
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Kew has a particularly rich collection of plants and structures relating to Japanese Gardens. The Japanese Minka recreates the sort of house that many Japanese country people lived in until the middle of the 20th century. They have earthquake-resistant frames, mud walls and thatched roofs.…
Read more
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Kew Gardens extends to 300 acres and houses plants from all over the world. As well as tropical and desert glasshouses containing plants that could never usually survive in Britain, there are also several museums, galleries and historic buildings in its grounds. The international collection…
Read more
Religious Group: Jewish
Redbridge Museum
Permanent display about Ilford Jewish Primary School featuring photographs, archival material and oral history. Originally based in Stepney, the whole school relocated to Barkingside in the 1970s as the Jewish community moved out of the East End into the London suburbs. Today, the Jewish community…
Read more
North, West & Southern Europe: Irish
Redbridge Museum
Permanent display on Kathleen Maguire, World Irish Dance Champion 1971 and 1972. Kathleen now runs the Maguire O’Shea Dance Academy in Seven Kings, LB Redbridge, one of the most successful schools in the country. Her students have won countless trophies and some have gone on…
Read more
Caribbean
Redbridge Museum
Permanent displays on an Afro-Caribbean family (1950s). In addition, other displays signify the diversity of the London Borough of Redbridge.Other collections include:Oral history interviews with Afro-Caribbean people about their life histories and topics including ‘Moving to the UK’, ‘Home’, ‘Childhood’, ‘Hair and beauty’, ‘WW2’, and…
Read more
Asian: Pakistani
Redbridge Museum
Mehndi Night dress from a woman of Zimbabwean-Pakistani origin with oral history interview about her 1980 wedding.Video interviews with local south Asian shopkeepers in 2005Interviews with local children about Eid (Muslim) celebrations in 2004
Read more
Asian: Indian
Redbridge Museum
Video interviews with local south Asian shopkeepers (2005) made for an exhibition on shopping in Redbridge. Ilford Lane is a vibrant Asian shopping area of Ilford and this Museum documentary captures the flavour of the area.Oral history and filmed interviews with local people about their…
Read more
Asian: Chinese
Redbridge Museum
Oral history interviews with Chinese people about what they wore for a special occasionInterviews with local people and photographs about Chinese New Year in 2004Chinese New Year objects (from 2004) – Good luck scrolls, firecrackers and DVD of a lion danceChildren-sized Chinese dragon designed for an exhibition about celebrations
Read more
Africa
Redbridge Museum
East African Asians – extensive collection of 20 video oral history interviews, photographs, paper items and objects associated with East African Asians who live in Redbridge created for the 2005 exhibition ‘India-Africa-Redbridge’ (south Asians who lived in British Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania before moving to…
Read more
Redbridge Museum
Redbridge Museum
Redbridge Museum has a number of permanent displays which reflect the diversity of the London Borough of Redbridge, such as displays about an Asian bride (1980s), an Irish Dancer (1970s), Ilford Jewish Primary School (1900 – 2000) and an Afro-Caribbean family (1950s). In addition, other…
Read more
African: Sudanese
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
The Petrie Museum houses approximately 80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Sudanese archaeology in the world. You can see over 3,000 of the Sudanese objects online by following the link below. The include material from archeological digs at Abu Jayli, Buhen,…
Read more
African: Egyptian
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
The Petrie Museum houses approximately 80,000 objects, making it one of the greatest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese archaeology in the world. The collection is full of ‘first’ including· Some of the earliest metal and linen from Egypt· The first known monumental sculpture· A fragment…
Read more
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
The collection illustrates life in Egypt and Sudan from prehistory through to the times of the pharaohs, the Ptolemaic (323 – 30BC), Roman and Coptic times (30BC – AD640) to the Islamic period.It includes some of the earliest and most unusual holdings from these periods.…
Read more
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
51.523473
-0.134391
University College London, Malet Place
Oceania
October Gallery
ROSELLA NAMOK Born in 1979, Rosella lives and works in one of the most remote and inaccessible areas of Australia. A member of the Ungkum Aboriginal group, and the Lockhart River Art Gang, Namok's oeuvre centres on the major theme of 'Kaapay and Kuyan', the…
Read more
Asian: Japanese
October Gallery
KENJI YOSHIDA Yoshida has had numerous solo exhibitions in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States and is represented in many prestigious collections around the world.
Read more
African: South African
October Gallery
Sandile Zulu was born in 1962, in Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and now lives and works in Johannesburg. Since graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand in the early 1990Õs he has exhibited extensively, locally as well as in the United States, Germany, France, Sweden,…
Read more