In 2008 I discovered that 17,000 Guernsey evacuees had fled to England, just before the Nazis occupied the Channel Islands. Most were sent to the industrial towns of northern England, and several thousand arrived in my home town of Stockport, Cheshire. They had to adjust to the unfamiliar landscape of industrial England and make new… Read more
This picture was taken during the Chinese New Year Celebrations just off Gerrard Street. Nearly 20 years later the man in the photograph saw the picture in one of my exhibitions and the next day the girl came to look at her picture. His name was Patrick, and the girl was Christine, his niece. She… Read more
George Alagiah’s parents, Donald Alagiah, a civil engineer and Therese, were Sri Lankan Tamil. They left in November 1961 when the future for Tamils there seemed bleak and moved to Ghana. In 1967 George started his secondary education in Portsmouth after which he read politics at Durham University. He is a renowned British newsreader, journalist… Read more
Mother, great-aunt and maternal grandmother wait for the groom on the day of his shaadi (wedding). The women were born in Pakistan/pre partition, India. British-Born, Khurram Ahmad is outside his family home in Leicestershire. Khurrum values and upholds the tradition of living with his parents and taking care of them in their old age. He… Read more
