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Oral History Project Acknowledgements

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Project Management Group
  1. Ansar Ahmed Ullah, Swadhinata Trust, Nirmul Committee
  2. Sunahwar Ali/Abdul Shahid, Swadhinata Trust, Nirmul Committee
  3. Prof John Eade, Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity & Multiculturalism (CRONEM), University of Surrey
  4. Mirela Dumic, Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity & Multiculturalism (CRONEM), University of Surrey


Project Staff
  1. Jamil Iqbal, Project Manger
  2. Verusca Calabria, Project Manager (resigned in Dec 2005)
  3. Julie Begum, Project Administrator


Project Volunteers
  1. Ishrat Jahan
  2. Afia Khatun
  3. Methula Haque
  4. Sanjan M S Haque
  5. Jamil Iqbal
  6. Natasha Jalal
  7. Riza Momin
  8. Abdul Q Aziz
  9. Misbah Uddin
  10. Abdul Shahid
  11. Shahnaz Shahid
  12. Ansar Ahmed Ullah
  13. Jawaharlal Sen Charlie
  14. Maliha Haque
  15. Abdul Malik
  16. Momtaz Begum


The first 5 volunteers were trained by Verusca Calabria on 17 Dec 2005 and the next 8 were trained by Cynthia Brown of Oral History Society, East Midlands Museums, Libraries & Archives Council on 25 Feb 2006 and awarded certificates.

Maliha Haque missed training but received training literature and carried out interviews and Abdul Malik helped with press conference & other tasks.

Exhibition prepared by Julie Begum with the help of Sharifa Khanom, Professional Development Centre (PDC) and Hattice Abdullah, Turkish Cypriot Community Association.

Learning Pack prepared by Lee Jerome and Bhavini Algarra with the help of Project Management.

Partner organisations, organisations consulted and organisations provided assistance
  1. Prof John Eade, CRONEM (Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity & Multiculturalism, School of Arts, University of Surrey)
  2. Joe Press, Tower Hamlets Schools Library Service
  3. Jack Kirby, Ragged School Museum
  4. Isilda Almeida, Museum in Docklands
  5. Judith Garfield, Eastside Community Heritage
  6. Annette Day, Museum of London
  7. Dr Robert Perks, Curator of Oral History, British Library
  8. Bre, British Library National Sound Archive
  9. Nazir Alam, SSBA Men’s Project
  10. Bithika Raha, Glimpses of Bengal
  11. Christopher Lloyd, Tower Hamlets Local History Librarian
  12. Hema Raul, Gunnersbury Park Museum
  13. Sunny Choudhury, Librarian Haringey Libraries, Archives and Museum Service
  14. Michelle Foggett, Community Partnerships Manager, Moving Here The National Archives
  15. Kate-Louise Smith, Untold London Website Manager,London Museums Hub
  16. Mahbubah Khanom and Laila Shaikh, Bengali Outreach Workers, City of Westminster Libraries
  17. Karen Henry, London Metropolitan University Volunteer Co-ordinator
  18. Hattice Abdullah, Turkish Cypriot Heritage Project
  19. Margaret Burr, Gillean Patterson & Sharifa Khanom, HEC, Professional Development Centre
  20. Emma Clarke, British Museum
  21. Phil Maxwell, photographer
  22. Biplop & Shahed at Fairkey printers
  23. Stuart Cameras
  24. Jobeda Khanom, RichMix
  25. Sara Wajid, journalist
  26. Vandana Patel, Royal Geographical Society


Funders
  1. Heritage Lottery Fund


Acknowledgement and thanks
  1. Swadhinata Trust, Nirmul Committee wishes to thank Anthony Stevens, Daneford Trust for providing their premises for volunteer training.
  2. M M S & Associates for the use of their premises for project base.
  3. Oluwasuen Soyemi & Charles Nichols of Herirage Lottery Fund
  4. Dr David Garbin for assisting in the initial stage of the project.
  5. John Pulman for Swadhinata Trust’s website & Mirela Dumic for CRONEM’s website.
  6. Dr. Sultan Ahmed (Tipu) for translating & transcribing the interviews.
  7. Marissa Hey for assisting with editing the book.
  8. Museum on Docklands for providing venue for project launch.
  9. M Siddique Shadi of Eyeculture for scanning, reproducing and printing of photographs.
  10. Janomot, Surma, Notun Din, Potrika, Bangla Post, East End Life, East London Advertiser, The Times Higher Education Supplement, Betar Bangla, BSK for publicity.
  11. Charlie Sen for video recording of some of the interviews.
  12. Bidhan Goswami for Bengali translation for exhibition boards.
  13. Nobab Uddin, Janomot for providing Trafargar Square rally of 1971 photograph.
  14. Mahbub Rahman, Media consultant
  15. Hilary Clarke for using her photos of Joi Bangla Crew
  16. Paul Trevor for providing photographs of Altab Ali procession and demos.