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Multiculturalism in Britain

Wham! 10 Days in China
This documentary about Wham!’s 1985 visit to China captures the complex combination of late Cold War politics, commercial imperatives, and cultural…
 • Dion Georgiou
‘I Think That’s Deeply Immoral...’
A sharp disagreement between Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Manzoor Moghal illustrated what was at stake in narrating the Ugandan Asian experience.
 • Dion Georgiou
‘What’s Happened to Our Party?’
A question put to Wandsworth’s Conservative former council leader Ravi Govindia in 2022 offers a useful starting point for considering the rise and fall…
 • Dion Georgiou
‘He’s Not Your Typical Tory’
During his time as leader of Wandsworth Council, Ravi Govindia’s rhetoric oscillated between ideological and pragmatic, drawing in part on his…
 • Dion Georgiou
‘The Weather Was More Unkind than the People’
Having come to Britain from Uganda as a refugee, Conservative politician Ravi Govindia’s reflections on this experience emphasised aspiration and…
 • Dion Georgiou
Idi Amin: Lion of Africa (2010)
In writing a revisionist account of Idi Amin’s rise to power and expulsion of Uganda’s Asian minority, Manzoor Moghal simultaneously asserted his own…
Refugee Narratives on The Reunion
Episodes of BBC Radio 4 programme The Reunion have given refugees to Britain opportunities to narrate their stories in dialogue with each other, but…
 • Dion Georgiou
Ugandan Asians in Dialogue (Part I)
The way the complexity of the Ugandan Asian experience is articulated depends not only on the politics of the narrator, but the format within which they…
 • Dion Georgiou
Minorities on the Right
The presence of members of minority groups on the right poses a challenge in both understanding how they got there and discussing the matter with due…
 • Dion Georgiou
Do You Understand Where I’m Coming from?
Making sense of the way I do history necessarily involves shifting my gaze two thousand miles away from Britain to the small Mediterranean island where…
 • Dion Georgiou
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