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i columnist Ian Birrell highlights the Migration Museum and our Football Moves People campaign.
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i columnist Ian Birrell highlights the Migration Museum and our Football Moves People campaign.
Read“The Migration Museum in London this week produced a poster showing what England’s semi-final side would have looked like if players with a parent or grandparent born abroad were excluded: Just three of the original starting 11 remained.”
ReadYasmin Alibhai-Brown writes: “An exhibition at the Migration Museum in London challenges our views on migrants, from the pitiful to the highly privileged… It will reopen after lockdown and should be seen by one and all.”
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A feature on Heart of the Nation in i-D magazine, featuring interviews with some of the NHS workers from around the world who contributed their stories to the exhibition.
ReadDaniel Trilling writes about his visit to the Migration Museum and our Departures exhibition in the London Review of Books
ReadMetro featured the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation exhibition on its What’s On this Week Events page.
Read“Today this England team has made Englishness and patriotism itself an idea not that some of us are ashamed of but that all of us can be proud.”
ReadA Museum Crush feature on Heart of the Nation, including an interview with exhibition curator and our head of creative content Aditi Anand.
ReadOur Migration Museum in the heart of Lewisham Shopping Centre was featured as a case study in a Museums Journal feature on how museums can play a role in the transformation of Britain’s high streets (requires Museums Association membership to view)
ReadOur Head of Learning and Partnerships Emily Miller writes in the Museums Journal on the role that museums can play in being forums for conversation away from our increasingly polarised public discourse
Read‘A Lewisham museum has launched a new digital exhibition shining a light on the 72-year history of migrants working in the NHS.’
ReadContributors to our Heart of the Nation exhibition featured in a documentary by Ireland’s Newstalk exploring the story of the women who left Ireland to train and work as nurses in England during the second half of the 20th century.
Read‘Osbert Parker’s multimedia, multi-layered film for the Migration Museum traces more than 400 years of emigration from Britain.’
ReadSky Sports News featured the Migration Museum’s Football Moves People campaign in the run-up to the Euro 2020 final.
ReadThe Migration Museum’s Football Moves People campaign featured in an article in French football magazine SoFoot on what Gareth Southgate and the England team at Euro 2020 represents.
Read“The squad has transformed culturally since the last time the English were champions. I’m rooting for the future it represents.”
ReadBritish High Commissioner to Australia Vicki Treadall highlights our Football Moves People campaign in an op-ed ahead of the Euro 2020 final.
Read“A recent graphic promoted by the UK’s Migration Museum shows a stark picture of what England’s starting 11 would look like without immigration over the past two generations. With only three players without a parent or grandparent born overseas, the national team is held up as a microcosm of a diverse, multicultural population.”
ReadThe Guardian’s liveblog featured our Football Moves People line-up graphic in the run-up to kick off of England’s Euro 2020 semi-final against Denmark.
ReadThe Guardian featured our Football Moves People campaign’s England Without Immigration line-up graphic in its live blog during the build up to England–Scotland match at Euro 2020.
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