Aldgate Square Festival: Arts, music, performance and talks from Aldgate and beyond: This summer, the City of London is launching its new public square with a fantastic, fun-filled FREE festival celebrating the cultural wealth of Aldgate and beyond. Aldgate Community…
Dear Friends and Participants in our project, We are very pleased to tell you that the interviews you gave last year for our project \”Bengali Music and Musicians in the UK\” are now downloaded onto the Swadhinata Trust website and…
Bengali spring festival: Saturday 31th March & Sunday 1st April Time: 12-4 pm
Swadhinata Trust presents Indian Suffragettes. Although popular Suffragette legend might have you believing only white women were entrenched in the cause for women’s suffrage in Britain, there were a number of Indian suffragettes and suffragists who took part. Most…
This heart-breaking story about the death of Altab Ali oscillates between a village in Sylhet, Bangladesh and a flat in East London and dramatises the historic moment in 1978 when his mother is given the devastating news. Altab regularly writes…
The BanglaTown walk and talk is aimed at anybody interested in Bengali migration and settlement in the East End. It is an opportunity to learn about the Bengali community’s history and heritage, and the lives of people with diverse backgrounds…
The Altab Ali Story film was screened on 20 May 2017 at the Kobi Nazrul Centre. The tragic racist murder of Altab Ali in May of 1978 sent shockwaves through the Bengali community in London and beyond. This dramatised story by…
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Bengali Music and Musicians in the UK Summary of Oral History Project to date Our collection of oral histories and interviews is a collaboration between the Swadhinata Trust and the British Library Sound Archive. We have set out to collect…
Tower Hamlets Council with Swadhinata Trust\’s assistance has produced, in September 2004, a Bengali History Walk booklet Exploring Banglatown and the Bengali East End (pdf 444Kb) to introduce evidence of Bengali history and for people to explore for themselves in and around…