Awards and Credits
Awards and Recognition
Our Migration Story was awarded the prestigious Royal Historical Society Public History Prize for Best Online Resource in 2018, named as a Research Champion in the 2017 Community Integration Awards and won The Guardian University Award for Research Impact in 2019.
Our Partners
Our Migration Story: The Making of Britain is an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded collaboration between the Runnymede Trust and academics based at the universities of Cambridge and Manchester. Drawing on the words and research of over 60 historians based in universities and historical institutions – including the National Archives, the Imperial War Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Royal Historical Society – this website presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the British Isles.
Core Project Team
Professor Claire Alexander, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Professor Joya Chatterji, Director of the Centre of South Asian Studies, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Sundeep Lidher, Runnymede Trust project co-lead and PhD candidate, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Dr Malachi McIntosh, Runnymede Trust project co-lead and author of Emigration and Caribbean Literature
Dr Debbie Weekes-Bernard, Policy and Research Manager, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Advisory Board
Professor Justin Champion, Royal Holloway, University of London
Michael Goddard, OCR Exam Board
Saba Hussein, Islamia Girl's School
Professor Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge and Royal Historical Society
Emily Miller, The Migration Museum Project
Munira Mohamad, Black Cultural Archives
Renée Mussai, Autograph ABP
Andrew Payne, National Archives, Kew
Nicholas Vanderpeet, Imperial War Museum
Michael Roden, Church of England
Dr Gemma Romain, University College London
Martin Spafford, Schools History Project
Kirsty Sullivan, Museum of London Docklands
Colin McFarlane, Making Histories
Contributors
Professor Hakim Adi, University of Chichester
Dr Eoghan Ahern, independent historian
Dr Sundari Anitha, University of Lincoln
Professor K. Humayun Ansari OBE, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Anthony Bale, Birkbeck, University of London
Dr Robin Bunce, University of Cambridge
Dr Kathy Burrell, University of Liverpool
Dr Terri Colpi, University of St Andrews
Professor Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford
Professor Keith Brown, University of Manchester
Dr Jennifer Davis, University of Cambridge
Rachel Donnelly, Imperial War Museum
Dr Nicholas Draper, University College London
Dr Madge Dresser, University of the West of England
Dr Hella Eckardt, University of Reading
Professor David Feldman, Birkbeck, University of London
Professor Margot Finn, University College London
Dr Diane Frost, University of Liverpool
Lily Greensmith, Ben Uri Gallery
Dr Ryan Hanley, University of Oxford
Professor Marjory Harper, University of Aberdeen
Katie Harris, Ben Uri Gallery
Dr Catherine Hills, University of Cambridge
Dr Christian Høgsbjerg, University College London
Professor Elisabeth van Houts, University of Cambridge
Dr Hannah Jones, University of Warwick
Perdita Jones, Tower Hamlets Council
Professor Virinder Kalra, University of Warwick
Dr Miranda Kaufmann, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Dr Allan Kennedy, University of Manchester
Professor Karen Ordahl Kupperman, New York University
Professor Tony Kushner, University of Southampton
Sav Kyriacou, digital:works
Dr Jessica Lutkin, University of York
Professor Don MacRaild, Ulster University
Rachael Minott, London Transport Museum
Abdul Mohamud, University College London, Institute of Education, and Justice to History
Dr Angela Moran, independent researcher in ethnomusicology
Dr Sumita Mukherjee, University of Bristol
Dr Tessa Murdoch, Victoria and Albert Museum
Professor Susheila Nasta, The Open University
Professor Dame Janet Nelson, King's College London
Onyeka Nubia, Narrative Eye
Michael Ohajuru, independent historian
Professor W. Mark Ormrod, University of York
Professor Panikos Panayi, De Montfort University
Dr Maya Parmar, The Open University
Andrew Payne, The National Archives
Dr William A. Pettigrew, University of Kent
Felicity Premru, London Transport Museum
Dr Sadiah Qureshi, University of Birmingham
Dr Anandi Ramamurthy, Sheffield Hallam University
Padraic Rohan, Stanford University
Professor Miri Rubin, Queen Mary, University of London
Marika Sherwood, Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Dr Florian Stadtler, University of Exeter
Professor Joanna Story, University of Leicester
Dr Becky Taylor, University of East Anglia
Professor Robert Tombs, University of Cambridge
Nicolas Vanderpeet, Imperial War Museum, London
Dr Rozina Visram, independent historian
Dr Pragya Vohra, University of York
Emma Vosper, University of Nottingham
Dr Brodie Waddell, Birkbeck, University of London
Caroline Warhurst, London Transport Museum
Professor Wendy Webster, University of Huddersfield
Dr Robin Whitburn, Justice to History
Dr Anne Witchard, University of Westminster
