Press coverage
View the latest press coverage of the Migration Museum by clicking on the links below. Please visit our Press release page to view and download our latest press releases.
For image and filming requests and all other media enquiries, please contact Matthew Plowright (matthew@migrationmuseum.org, +44 7585 117 924).
Newstalk – Angels of Mercy (14/03/2021)
Contributors 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.
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shots – The march of time (15/01/2021)
‘Osbert Parker’s multimedia, multi-layered film for the Migration Museum traces more than 400 years of emigration from Britain.’
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Sky Sports News – Euros Report (09/07/2021)
Sky Sports News featured the Migration Museum’s Football Moves People campaign in the run-up to the Euro 2020 final.
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SoFoot – Come Together (10/07/2021)
The 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.
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The Atlantic – Why I’m Supporting England at Euro 2020 (09/07/2021)
“The squad has transformed culturally since the last time the English were champions. I’m rooting for the future it represents.”
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The Canberra Times – It’s coming home: why this England team represents the best of Britain (11/07/2021)
British High Commissioner to Australia Vicki Treadall highlights our Football Moves People campaign in an op-ed ahead of the Euro 2020 final.
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The Conversation – England’s identity: fans sing football’s coming home, but what is home? (07/07/2021)
“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.”
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The Guardian – England v Denmark live blog (07/07/2021)
The 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.
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The Guardian – Euro 2020: England and Scotland prepare to collide at Wembley (18/06/2021)
The 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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The New York Times – Soccer Success is Making England ‘Whole Again’ (11/07/2021)
“As the Migration Museum has pointed out, most of the team’s players have parents or grandparents born outside the country. Unlike their World Cup-winning predecessors in 1966 and the team in 1996, when England hosted the European Championships, they are not wholly, or overwhelmingly, white.”
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The People’s Friend – Heart of the Nation (01/01/2021)
A feature on our Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS exhibition in the January edition of The People’s Friend magazine.
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The Quarantini Podcast – A Quarantini with the NHS (19/10/2020)
Robyn Kasozi, our Head of Public Engagement, was a guest on the Quarantini Podcast, speaking about Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS.
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The Voice – 400 years of British emigration explored in new Migration Museum exhibition (26/10/2020)
The Voice previews our Departures exhibition, exploring 400 years of emigration from Britain.
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The Washington Post – England heads to the Euro 2020 final, bringing with it a new kind of post-Brexit English fandom (11/07/2021)
“In England’s semifinal against Denmark, seven of its starters were born abroad or had a parent or grandparent who was born overseas, according to the Migration Museum in London.”
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Positive News – What went right this week (08/10/2020)
Positive News featured the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation exhibition in its round-up of what went right this week.
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Calvert Journal – A moving animation pays homage to Britain’s migrant medical staff (06/10/2020)
‘Made by Russian-born and London-based artist Tribambuka, also known as Anastasia Beltyukova, the video is part of London’s Migration Museum’s new online exhibition, Heart of the Nation.’
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GP Online – GPs celebrated in digital exhibition highlighting key role of migrants in the NHS (05/10/2020)
‘The vital role played by GPs and other health professionals who have moved to the UK to work in the NHS through its 72-year history is highlighted in a new digital exhibition.’
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BBC Radio London – Jumoké Fashola (03/10/2020)
The Migration Museum’s head of creative content, Aditi Anand, and exhibition contributor Allyson Williams MBE speak to Jumoké Fashola on BBC London Radio about Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS.
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The Guardian – ‘I brought skills with me from a war zone’: the long history of migrants in the NHS (01/10/2020)
A Guardian feature on the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS exhibition, including interviews with our head of creative content, Aditi Anand, and with a number of people who contributed their stories to the exhibition.
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Londonist – 12 Must See Exhibitions In London This Month (01/10/2020)
Londonist featured the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS exhibition in its preview of must-see exhibitions.
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