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Equality – Faith Communities and the Big Society 09/09/2010
The debate over the last few months around the Big Society, seems to ignore the Social Justice and Equalities agenda. A couple of people in the North West, Tanvir from CDX and Professor John Diamond, have both commented on the Big Society, Equality and Social Justice. The BSN have decided to hold its North West event […]
Looking for Connections – The Coalition prepares its spending review as the housing market drops and the US economy stalls – does it matter? 09/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (the University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reflects on another significant week: “Not sure that we can cope with yet another “significant week” since the election and the formation of the Conservative / Liberal Coalition. But, it does seem to me that if the economic indicators in the US are right then [. […]
The headlines say one thing – cuts, inequality a lack of social justice and the Big Society advocates say another: what sense can we make of this ? 09/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (the University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reflects on some of the headlines from the news this week: ” Looking through the report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies released this week on the impact of the Coalition’s Budget and the increasing number of examples from the Voluntary and Community sector of [. […]
Looking for Absences – Social Justice and Equalities in the Big Society: what does this tell us? 09/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) points to continuing absences in the Coalition’s Big Society initiative: “I am struck by the notable absences in the Coalition’s Big Society project. There are, at least, two really central ones – for me- and they are any references to Social Justice and Equalities. […]
Summer Holidays, Stories and The Big Society: Why We Need More Than A Bucket And Spade 09/09/2010
Professor John Diamond (University’s Centre for Local Policy Studies) reviews some recent stories from the national press on the Big Society: “Reading through the papers over the weekend the connections between the Big Society idea, the Coalition’s Budget and the emerging impact of the cuts became clearer. There are two articles which are w […]

Through my eyes

Alongside From War to Windrush, the Imperial War Museum is also launching a new online exhibition as part of the Their Past Your Future programme entitled Through My Eyes: Stories of Conflict, Belonging and Identity. The exhibition will illustrate the ways in which various twentieth century conflicts have made people rethink or reaffirm their own sense of identity and belonging. The online exhibition features a wide variety of personal stories from a range of different countries. Some explore the influence of the Empire and Commonwealth on personal choices to fight and serve, whilst other stories are from men, women and children forced to leave their own war-torn country and settle here in the UK.

The exhibition will be launched in two phases. The first, which goes live in June, includes stories from Windrush passengers, First World War volunteers, Kindertransport children, Basque evacuees, displaced persons from the Second World War, people affected by the Indian Partition and also those affected by the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. The second phase will be launched in the autumn and will include the experiences of Vietnamese boat people, refugees from Bosnia, refugees from Kosovo and survivors of the Rwandan genocide.

http://www.throughmyeyes.org.uk/?PHPSESSID=f5c4b3360f9d3729d5f6ba70e72a1256

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