Special places archive
September 2003
Moving here
Billed as the ultimate database of digitised photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences of the past 200 years, this website tells the stories of Irish, Indian, Jewish, Carribean and other people who migrated to Britain. Many of the stories are about the places they came from, and the places they came to.
Empire Marketing Board poster showing a field of flax being harvested in Northern Ireland (c. 1926-33), from the collection of the National Archives
150,000 objects from 30 museums and collections are available here in digital form, all presented with background information, and woven together with stories.
Etching of village women and a goat, by south Indian artist K Laxma Goud (1971), from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum