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Beyond the Frame: Indian British Connections

UK Exhibition

Beyond the Frame is delighted to continue the UK tour of the original ‘Making Britain’ project touring panel exhibition ‘South Asians Making Britain, 1858-1950’ in partnership with the British Library. The display focuses on a wide range of South Asian-British networks and interactions including South Asian contributions to sport, the arts, domestic, cultural and intellectual life, resistance and activism, as well as national and global politics. Developed from ‘Making Britain’s’ extensive research, it examines a wealth of new material from archives in India, Sri Lanka, the United States and Britain. Since September 2010, when the first phase of the project ended, the UK exhibition tour has been co-ordinated and supported by The Open University and The British Library.

The UK exhibition was launched at the major international conference 'Bharat Britain: South Asians Making Britain' at the British Library on 13-14 September 2010 and visited regional venues across the UK throughout 2010-11. By popular demand, the tour has been extended into 2012 and has now concluded. Educational lectures and workshops have been available at select venues.

It has been on show at the following locations:

  • Southall Library, Osterley Park Road, Southall, Middlesex: 15 August - 29 September 2012
  • Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London: 09 May - 21 May 2012
  • Great Britain Centre, Alexander von Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany: 31 January - 16 March 2012
  • Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London: November - December 2011
  • Middlesbrough Library, Middlesbrough: 18 October – 15 November 2011
  • Swiss Cottage Library, London: 20 September – 14 October 2011
  • Barking Library, Barking: 1 August – 9 September 2011
  • Croydon Central Library, Croydon: 6 June – 1 July 2011
  • Surrey History Centre, Woking: 3 – 27 May 2011
  • Jubilee Library, Brighton: 1 March –12 April 2011
  • Birmingham Central Library, Birmingham: 10 January – 25 February 2011
  • St Barnabas Library, Leicester: 17 November – 31 December 2010
  • Manningham Library, Shipley, Bradford: 1 November – 14 November 2010
  • Bradford Central Library, Bradford: 1 October – 31 October 2010
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Princess Sophia Duleep Singh selling copies of The Suffragette outside Hampton Court Palace. (The Suffragette, 1913) © British Library Board [1913 LON 515 (1913) NPL]
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