Riding the Waves: How pop culture has the potential to catalyse social change in the UK
A critical research report exploring how pop culture is evolving in the UK, its influence, and the role of philanthropists in leveraging pop culture to catalyse social change. Includes research across a range of sectors, and identifies key opportunities and challenges.
Produced by Alice Sachrajda and Unbound Philanthropy
Traces Project
A digital timeline featuring contributions to arts and culture that have been made by refugees to the UK since the 1900s up to 2012 — such as M.I.A. and Judith Kerr. Includes learning resources for educators and workshop facilitators around design & architecture, music, writing, and the arts.
Produced by Counterpoints Arts and UNHCR.
Refugee Week: Facts & Figures
Refugee Week has pulled together a long list of refugee creative contributions in the UK as well as essential facts and figures about refugee migration and the asylum process from the British Red Cross and UNHCR.
Produced by Refugee Week UK (Counterpoints Arts)
Windrush Stories: Authors, Artists and Activists
A great resource exploring how the experiences of migration and settling in the UK, alongside the political landscapes of the Caribbean and Britain, have led to new artistic expressions, cultural movements and waves of activism.
Produced by The British Library
Art, Music and Popular Culture that shook the world
The British Library has compiled some key pop culture moments in the 20th century that had an impact on shifting ideas. Included is Hanif Kureishi’s ground-breaking novel about multi-racial Britain, The Buddha of Suburbia.
Produced by the British Library
Archive Research Guides on Immigrants and Refugees
The UK National Archives Research Guides provide advice on how to locate records of immigrants to the UK since the 13th century, refugee crises and the treatment of refugees, international law and government policy.
Produced by the UK National Research Council
Refugee History
Refugee History is a website and interactive network for journalists, policy-makers, lawyers, NGOs, academics and artists, and others. The site houses a digital timeline of refugee history up to the present, as well as a podcast, blog articles, and a directory of UK experts on refugee issues.
An initiative of the University of East Anglia.
Fear and Hope Reports
A yearly comprehensive survey and report looking into the changing nature of British identity and attitudes to race, faith and belonging.
Produced by Hate not Hope Charitable Trust