Bahadur Sher was born in 1930, in the village of Waisa, Attock (Northern Pakistan). He died in 2018 aged eighty-eight years. Bahadur came to…
Black British Muslims play an important role in British society but are poorly represented in public discourse, policy, and indeed across a range of…
Do you know someone who just observed the pilgrimage of Hajj? ‘Hajj and the arts of the Pilgrimage’ by Qaisra Khan, is a visual…
“Iqbal Jafferee Sir, is this the house?” “Is this the Geoffrey Street you wanted me to find?” These were two messages I sent…
Khurshid Ahmed grew up in rural Pakistan in Gujrat, his father, a schoolmaster, had encouraged all his sons to study and get a profession.…
In 2017, a study carried out by the Trust for London and New Policy Institute found that 57% of children in the London Borough…
Britain’s history is one of the key fronts in our divisive identity ‘culture war’ – yet remembrance of shared history also has the power…
In 1990, just a year before his early death aged 56, my father published his first book. He was a man who migrated to…
Lady Evelyn Murray was born in Edinburgh on the 17th of July 1867, she was the eldest child of the Earl and Countess of…
On the 18th February 1932, a 42-seater Imperial Airways aeroplane took off from Croydon, its destination: Paris. Onboard was Gladys Milton Palmer, the former…