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Details of our new Friends of the Documenting Chile Archive Group which we will be formerly launching during our Workshop at this coming Saturday.

Further details on the Friends Group here: https://www.livingrefugeearchive.org/friends-of-documenting-chile/

Still time to register for our Workshop on Saturday for hashtag :

Solidarity, Oral History and Archives : amplifying the experiences of displacement and solidarity in exile

Learn more about our participatory archiving work with the Living Refugee Archive project and community archiving with the El Piquete de Londres: 503 Days in Photographs project.

This workshop explores how archives and archival work can help to build and preserve solidarity with displaced communities, especially refugees, and is run in collaboration with the Living Refugee Archive, sponsored by a Workshop Grant by the Royal Historical Society and Small Research Fund by the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London.

Further Information:

https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/solidarity-oral-history-and-archives-amplifying-the-experiences-of-displacement-and-solidarity-in-exile/hmi92-2526

Sharing details of the British Ugandan Asians at 50 oral history project which is currently on display at out UEL Stratford Campus Library as part of .

Find out more here: https://www.livingrefugeearchive.org/projects/british-ugandan-asians-at-50-project/

Details of our Searfaring Histories of Empire exhibition at UEL Docklands Campus showcasing exhibitions from Asif Shakoor & Eastside Community Heritage

Further details:

Seafaring Histories of Empire Exhibition Seafaring Histories of Empire Exhibition For Refugee Week 2026, we are bringing together two exhibitions at the UEL Docklands Campus documenting how sailors from across the British empire and beyon…

Further details of our on British Ugandan Asians at 50 at the UEL Docklands Campus Library:

https://www.livingrefugeearchive.org/event/british-ugandan-asians-at-50-exhibition/

Our Living Refugee Archive on Solidarity, Oral History and Archives : Amplifying the Experiences of Displacement and Solidarity in Exile Workshop for in collaboration with City Lit and El Piquete: 503 Days in Photographs project

Details:

Solidarity, Oral History, and Archives Workshop with the Living Refugee Archive and City Lit College Visit the post for more.

For the Living Refugee Archive at will be running a series of events during 15-21 June 2026 in collaboration with City Lit, a college of sanctuary, and Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at UEL.

Full details available at

www.livingrefugeearchive.org

There is still time to register for our London Festival of Architecture event on Wednesday (3rd June) on the topic of "The Olympic Stadium as Home: Architecture, Memory and Belonging."

Our event foregrounds the notions of belonging within an archetectural context bringing together renowned speakers Geraint John with John Gold and Margaret Gold.

The event is co-organised by the Olympic Studies Research Centre and the Library, Archives and Learning Services, home to the British Olympic Association Archive.

Booking is still possible for this online webinar via Eventbrite at: https://lnkd.in/eKnN2Wqf

We are pleased to announce that our upcoming Olympic Studies Research Centre webinar on `The Olympic Stadium as Home: Architecture, Memory and Belonging" on Wednesday 3rd June is officially part of this year's London Festival of Architecture which this year is exploring the theme of Belonging.

Check out our event on the London Festival of Architecture website at: https://lnkd.in/eWsk2Far

Launching today the Olympic Echoes ACI Foundation Show at UEL taking inspiration from East London's Olympic Legacy and the British Olympic Association Archive at UEL.

From Monday, 18 May from 4pm in the RDCS Building.