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Sadiya Ahmed has been busy during Britain’s latest COVID-19 lockdown. She has produced a podcast, created a heritage photography competition, and is working on setting up a Muslim History module to run alongside the national curriculum. It is all part of this former tutor’s aim to ensure British Muslim history takes its rightful place within mainstream British history. “Muslims aren’t just on the margins of British society, but are part of British society,” she says. She wants to place their stories alongside the already documented “mainstream” British history in archives, museums and academia. “It gives our communities an authenticated representation and claim to British history, as ‘our history’, one we are evidently part of.” ....
Published date: 28 January 2021 10:32 UTC | Last update: 1 month 2 weeks ago About 30km southwest of London, the commuter town of Woking happens to be home to western Europe s largest cemetery. Its size isn t its only accolade; Brookwood cemetery has also been the resting place of some of the world s prominent thinkers, creators, activists and royalty. They include Edward the Martyr, who briefly ruled the country in the 10th century and whose remains were moved to Brookwood in 1984; John Singer Sargent, the American portrait artist who painted several US presidents; and, for a time, Dodi El-Fayed, the entrepreneur who died in a car crash alongside Princess Diana. ....