We hold collections in the Southwark Archives on groups that have historically been underrepresented.
Southwark Archives holds the following resources and collections on Southwark’s South Asian communities.
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These folders all contain at least one record relating to South Asian Heritage:
PC 325.1 Anti Racism and Community relations
PC 325.1 Ethnic Groups: Indian Subcontinent
PC 325.1 Refugees and Asylum Seekers
PC 325.1 Immigration
PC 325.1 Racial Equality – Southwark Council
PC 290-294 Various Non-Christian Religions
Southwark Muslim Women’s Association Annual, 2000-2001 (Pamphlets 391.072 SOU)
Being Together, Southwark women talking about leisure, including Bhagini Samaj, an Asian women’s group, mainly Gujarati-speaking, based in SE24, and Southwark Muslim women (Pamphlets 391.072 SOU)
Southwark Council Leading the Way to Community Cohesion (booklet) featuring touring exhibition that profiled Muslims (Pamphlets 325.1)
AAWAZ – South Asian Women’s Association annual report, 1996/1997 (Pamphlets 325.1)
Black and Other Minorities: Key Facts, Race Equality Unit, Town Clerk’s Dept. (Pamphlets M 325.1)
Black and Other Minority Groups, Race Equality Unit, Town Clerk’s Dept., includes South Asian groups (Pamphlets 325.1 SOU)
Ethnicity in Southwark, London Borough of Southwark, General Population, November 2006 – looks at general population information across 16 different groups including Bangladeshi, Pakistani, and other South Asian diaspora (Pamphlets 325.1 SOU)
Survey of Black and Ethnic Minority Communities in Southwark (Pamphlets 325.1 SOU)
Black and Other Ethnic Minority Sports Policy Issues (Pamphlets 325.1 LON)
Southwark Refugee Project annual report, 1995 (Pamphlets 325.21)
A Place to Stay: memories of pensioners from many lands compiled by Age Exchange Theatre Company; edited by Pam Schweitzer (Books 325.1)
So this is England Peckham Publishing Project, 1984 (Pamphlets 325.1)
North Peckham Civic Centre, Posters and Ephemera c.1970s-1990s (Press cuttings 791)
Walworth and Aylesbury Community Arts Trust c. 1980s (Pamphlets 374)
Blue Elephant theatre annual report, 2001 (Pamphlets 792.6)
Live Arts For Southwark – report including needs of Global Majority communities in the borough, 1984 (Pamphlets 706 SOU)
Immigrants and Aliens: A guide to sources on UK immigration and citizenship by Roger Kershaw and Mark Pearsall (Books 325.1)
The Peopling of London: fifteen thousand years of settlement from overseas edited by Nick Merriman (Books 325.1)
Cosmopolitan London: past, present and future by Marian Storkey, Jackie Maguire, Rob Lewis (Books 325.1)
Windrush: the irresistible rise of multi-racial Britain by Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips (Books 325.1)
Reasons for using East India Sugar, printed for the Peckham Ladies African and Anti-Slavery Association (1828) (reproduction) (Pamphlets 325.1)
The impact and significance of Dr Harold Moody and The League of Coloured Peoples in its promotion of social reforms in housing and employment for black migrants in London between the 1930s and 1940s by John Graves (2014) (Pamphlets 920 MOO)
Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples (Race, Faith and Politics Lecture) by David Killingray (1999) (Pamphlets 920 MOO)
The Colour Bar by Dr Harold Moody (Pamphlets 325.1 MOO)
The Keys: The official organ of The League of Coloured Peoples 1933-1939 (Reserve stock books 325.1 MOO)
The Asian Gang: ethnicity, identity, masculinity by Claire E Alexander (2000)
B-One: Stories of Bengali People in SE1 – audio interviews and project booklet, 2011 (Archives 2011/57)
Tackling Racial Harassment in Bermondsey, Rotherhithe and the London Borough of Southwark by Southwark United Group Against Racism, 2002 (Books 325.1 SOU)
London’s Ethnic Minorities: One City, Many Communities – an analysis of 1991 Census results by Marian Storkey (Books 325.1 STO)
Ethno News 2006-2009 - Bi-monthly magazine for small and medium minority ethnic enterprises (Reserve stock books 381 ETH)
Containing news cuttings from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic news and organisations:
South Asian History London Map (Books 912)
The Forgotten People: Carers in Three Minority Ethnic Communities in Southwark 1990 – a study on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic carers by Joy Ann McCalman (Books 360 MCC)
Community session on migration at Unity Centre Peckham 1990
Pitt Street Settlement, East Surrey Grove, Peckham 1990
Eid Celebration at Harper Road Library (1990, 47 mins) (LHL DVD 5)
Mosque: The Story of Islam in Southwark (2010, 2 hours) Five films exploring the history of Islam in Southwark and the role of its mosques within their communities (LHL DVD 113)
Not Our Problem (1984, 26 mins): The experience of being black and living in Southwark. (LHL DVD 20)
Finding Home (2014, 31 minutes) (310D) A film by Veronica McKenzie about a group of LGBTQ+ people who speak about their experiences of arriving in the UK via the asylum and migration process.