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'Many Peoples, One Birmingham' - A talk by Prof Carl Chinn

Jul 13, 2017

'Many Peoples, One Birmingham' - A talk by Prof Carl Chinn

As part of Children in Movement we’re honoured to have had local historian Professor Carl Chinn deliver a public talk at The GAP entitled ‘Many People, One Birmingham’. Its safe to say that many a proud Brummie will tell you how proud they are of Birmingham’s multicultural society and how people from across the globe have settled in Brum to become the building blocks of this city. But we often don’t get to hear the stories, troubles and struggles of these people. Carl was s

Oral Histories Training

Jul 8, 2017

Oral Histories Training

For Children in Movement we will be collecting and presenting the hidden stories of child migration to Birmingham through the medium of oral histories - ‘the collection and study of historical information using audio recordings of interviews with people having personal knowledge of past events’. As none us of Project Workers had experience of this before, we were lucky enough to be trained by local expert oral historian, Helen Lloyd. From this training we then led a two day i

Thinking about 'Heritage' & 'Migration'

Jul 6, 2017

Thinking about 'Heritage' & 'Migration'

At the start of the month, Project Workers Joe, Arron and myself met up with our first cohort of participants for an introduction to the project and its themes, and to share ideas about what we understand by the terms 'heritage' and 'migration'. We are excited to have such an enthusiastic and engaged group of participants made up of people of various ages and backgrounds, some of whom migrated to Birmingham as children themselves. The group includes artists, theatre students,