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Literature and East London's Immigrant History

Literature and East London's Immigrant History

Revealing East London's Immigrant History Through Literature

Professor Nadia Valman

Professor Nadia Valman has drawn on her research on immigration to and from London’s East End to produce interactive resources and events benefitting cultural institutions, communities, and public understanding of immigration at a local, national and international level. At a time when immigration is widely represented as a recent, problematic phenomenon, these activities - which directly involved more than 6,800 people of all ages and backgrounds - challenged participants’ perception of migration and stimulated imaginative engagement with past lives. Through guided walks, an innovative app, and workshops, Valman has brought new visitors to east London and enhanced local understanding of cultural, religious and architectural heritage. Valman also collaborated with two museums, enabling them to extend their mission to new and more diverse audiences. She developed resources for teaching GCSE history that have been recommended to teachers by the OCR exam board, and new pedagogical approaches to local history teaching that have augmented teaching provision in 7 secondary schools.

Partnerships

Jewish Museum London

Migration Museum Project

 

Links

Zangwill's Spitalfields app

Victorian Protest Parade Year 7 Students

The Great Yiddish Parade

 

Media

BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking

Spitalfields Life Blog

Jewish Chronicle

Radio London Robert Elms Show

Jewish News

Tel Aviv Review Podcast

 

 

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