Category: Projects
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Paradise Park Children’s Centre
Islington as a Place of Refuge – Tour Stop 5 Significance: Location of Britain’s first female Somali Mayor’s Councillor Surgery Paradise Park Children’s Centre is an important stop in Islington’s refugee and migrant history for its links with a key member of Islington’s Somali Community, Councillor Rakhia Ismail. Since 2014,…
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Caledonian Park
Islington as a Place of Refuge – Tour Stop 1 Significance: Location of rally for Hungarian revolutionary Lajos Kossuth By 1848, a storm of discontent swept through European states, culminating in a series of republican revolts against monarchies. Beginning in Sicily, most of Europe tried, and failed, to implement a…
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The Keskidee Centre
Islington as a Place of Refuge – Tour Stop 2 Significance: first dedicated arts centre in Britain for the Afro-Carribean community The Keskidee Centre was envisioned by Oscar Abrams, a Guyanese architect and cultural activist, in the 1970’s. A centre providing educational, social and cultural activities for a disadvantaged and primarily West…
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The Victoria
Islington as a Place of Refuge – Tour Stop 6 Significance: Pub hosting Irish music performances Over the past three centuries Islington became a new home for thousands of Irish economic migrants, who brought with them many cultural traditions and the melodic sounds of Irish music. In the 20th Century,…
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ANC Print Shop
Islington as a Place of Refuge – Tour Stop 4 Significance: Where anti-apartheid material was produced Apartheid was official policy of institutional racism and segregation in South Africa between 1948 and 1994. It was a system designed to disempower black South Africans and ensure the white population remained in power.…
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Holloway Prison
Islington as a Place of Refuge – Tour Stop 7 Significance: Location of interned German Jewish ‘enemy aliens’ Holloway Prison operated from 1852-2016, exclusively holding female and young offenders from 1903. Thousands of women were imprisoned there over its history. The story of women behind bars has long held the…
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Islington Refugee Services and Support
Islington as a Place of Refuge – Tour Stop 8 Significance: Islington Refugee Services and Support Islington has long been a place where migrants and refugees have settled. The borough is central, accommodation has often been cheap and there is a history of tolerance – Finsbury was the first UK…
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Away from the Western Front: 1st – 31st July 1918
Return to the Suez Canal EEF divisions followed the standard Army pattern of being rotated through periods of front-line duty, rest -which could include the much resented road building -and training. When the 1/11 London Finsbury Rifles moved out of the front line at the end of June they were…
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Away from the Western Front 1st – 30th June 1918
The EEF’s strong training system had been a key part of its success under General Allenby. The Imperial School of Instruction at Zeitoun in Cairo ran two types of courses: technical courses for battalion specialists such as Lewis gunners and leadership & battlefield skills for junior officers & NCOs. After…
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Away from the Western Front: 1st -31st May 1918
The EEF spent much of the summer of 1918 training the troops who had arrived from India to replace those sent to the Western Front. Although the 54th (East Anglian) Division stayed in Palestine,there were skills to be maintained and new techniques to be learned. The battalion padre, Captain the Rev…
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