Moving Here: Routes to the Future

Moving Here provides online access to a vast range of material relating to migration to England. Routes to the Future is a national initiative to promote and add more stories to the website. The Herbert has led a project to involve minority ethnic communities in the West Midlands.
The website at www.movinghere.org.uk contains more than 200,000 digitised images and documents from museums, libraries and archives across the country. They focus on Asian, Caribbean, Irish and Jewish migration over the last two centuries. Hundreds of personal stories show the challenges and successes experienced by migrants arriving in England from all over the world.
The West Midlands regional project involved museums and galleries in Coventry, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Ironbridge and Stoke-on-Trent. We worked with community groups in each of these places and participants included Caribbean, Chinese and Polish elders, African poets and young refugees.
Through creative workshops and reminiscence sessions group members recorded their migration stories for the Moving Here website. An exhibition and short film based on their memories is now available for loan from The Herbert, and is suitable for schools and community venues. The Moving Here website has also been updated with educational resources linked to the national curriculum. For further information about the project email Alison Taylor at alison.taylor@coventry.gov.uk or call on 024 7678 5166.

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