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
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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
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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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
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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.
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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,…
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