Mix-d: Archive

New collaboration in 2009. The Multiple Heritage Project are proud to announce an exciting new collaboration with Chamion Cabellero of London South Bank University and Peter Aspinal of Kent University.

About the project.

The little history that has been told about mixed race people and couples in Britain to date tends to paint their story as an unhappy one. Generally, ‘official’ attitudes towards couples and people from mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds during the early to mid-20th century Britain tended to take a negative view.

Despite a longstanding presence in the UK, mixed race people and couples were often seen as tragic, abnormal and undesirable by the media, academics, politicians and other leading public figures. Yet, the accounts of the people and couples themselves frequently tells a very different picture, one in which mixedness is not steeped in tragedy but is simply an ordinary feature of everyday life, sometimes good, sometimes bad and sometimes just simply unremarkable.

Sample Archive Image

The online resources will host a number of stimulus materials that can be drawn on to discuss and contrast both the ‘official’ view and the ‘everyday’ view of mixed race people and couples in the early to mid-20th century:

- Newspaper cuttings
- Public record extracts
- Oral history accounts – written extracts and sound clips
- Official document extracts
- Photographs
- Film stills and clips

Look out for more information over the coming months.