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Jul 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
As we mark the start of
#SouthAsianHeritageMonth, I'm delighted to be able to start conducting oral history interviews for my public history project. I'm interested in speaking to South Asians involved in anti-racist organising and industrial disputes in the late 20th century.
I hope to record these oral history interviews and transcribe them for public record. These will feature on a publicly accessible online archive which will be up and running next year. Please do get in touch if you can connect me with people worth speaking to. #journorequest
If you know anyone who was involved in any of the following please do get in touch:

Indian Workers' Associations
Bolton Asian Youth Organisation
Newham Monitoring Project
Southall Youth Movement
Blackburn Asian Youth Movement
Afia Begum Campaign/Sari Squad
Industrial disputes:

Mansfield Hosiery Mills-Loughborough 1972
Courtaulds Red Scar Mills-Preston 1965
Crepe Sizes Ltd-Nottingham 1972
Woolf’s Rubber Factory-Southall1963
Aire Valley Yarns-1983
Kewal Brothers Clothing Factory-Birmingham 1984
Imperial typewriters-Leicester 1974
If you have any stories at all of anti-racist organising, I'm interested in hearing about it. Important that we document this history and, crucially, learn from it too.

DMs open or email me at taj.ali2792@gmail.com

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