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CASBAH Partners, Associates and Steering Group Members

CASBAH would like to thank the following individuals and organisations for the invaluable advice and guidance offered throughout the life of the project:

CASBAH Partners and Associates

Associate Institutions

Members of the CASBAH Steering Group

Ms Carole Holden British Library
Dr Andrew Lewis Historical Manuscripts Commission
Mr Ronald Milne Research Support Libraries Programme
Dr Rosemarie Mallett Society for Caribbean Studies (UK)
Mr William-Pine Coffin University of Warwick
Mrs Sacha Shaw Goldsmiths College, University of London
Dr Mandy Banton & Ms Jone Garmendia Public Record Office
Professor Lola Young Former Project Director of the Archives and Museum of Black Heritage (AMBH)
Ms Rozina Visram Academic Research Representative - Asian British History
Project Team Members  
Mr David Ward

CASBAH Project Director January (until July 2001)
Ms Julie Evans CASBAH Project Manager
Ms Samantha Collenette CASBAH Project Officer (Jan-August 2000)
Ms Carol Dixon CASBAH Project Officer (Jan 2001-May 2002)
Dr Roiyah Saltus-Blackwood CASBAH Project Researcher (April 2000-May 2002)
Ms Mairi Robertson CASBAH Project Archivist (Nov 2001-May 2002)

Additional Advisors

AIM25 Project (RSLP) Ms Patricia Methven, Mr Robert Baxter and Mr Alan Kucia
Archives and Museum of Black Heritage (AMBH) Professor Lola Young, Mr Sam Walker
Mapping Asia Project (RSLP) Ms Lesley Forbes and Ms Susan
FLAG (Foreign Law Guide) Project Dr Peter Clinch
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - New York (USA) Ms Diana Lachatanere
Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies Mr Peter Evans and Ms Mary Mills

The CASBAH team would like to extend special thanks to Mr David Ward and Ms Samantha Collenette. David conceived the idea for the project and was its Director up until July 2001. It is David we must thank for the CASBAH name, amongst many other things. Sam was our first CASBAH Project Officer from January - August 2000 and contributed enormously to the project's initial development from its inception in January 2000 through to August 2000.

Please click here for further information about CASBAH's partner institutions, associates and advisors.

Web Site Design

The CASBAH Project would like to thank the following individuals for the technical support and advice offered during the design of the new web site:

Rick Munday (Web page Designer), Red Bicycle Design

  • Tel: 07810 481687 (mobile).
  • Email: rick@redbicycle.co.uk
  • Web site: http://www.redbicycle.co.uk

Jackie Collins (Web Page Designer), Digital Media Designs

Dr. Frances Blomeley, University of London Computer Centre (ULCC)

Special thanks are due to Dr Blomeley for the patient and unstinting technical support which she provided for the development of the web site and the MySQL database.

Chris Purday (Photographer and Media Services Assistant), Institute of Education, University of London

Copyright Acknowledgements

The project team would like to thank the following copyright holders for granting permission to use photographic images on the CASBAH web site:

Documentary Photography Archive, Greater Manchester County Record Office

  • Nurses at St Olive’s Hospital, London, n 1955 (Ref: 2/A12/16) © Documentary Photography Archive, GMCRO.
  • Group photograph of Sikh immigrants outside the Shepherd’s Bush Sikh Temple in 1939 (Ref: 2/B40/9+28) © Documentary Photography Archive, GMCRO.
  • Sikh ARP worker, Ram Singh Bhatra, taking to King George VI on his tour of Birmingham after the Blitz, 12th December 1940 (Ref: 2/B40/11+25) © Documentary Photography Archive, GMCRO.
  • Sikh boy with his friends in Bark Street, Hulme (Manchester) c.1956 (Ref: 1/W37/17) © Documentary Photography Archive, GMCRO.

Goodyear Great Britain Limited

  • Factory worker (Ref: DB/20 F/1) © Goodyear Great Britain Limited.
  • Photograph of the Goodyear Cricket Team, c.1950 (DB-20/F25) © Goodyear Great Britain Limited.

Imperial War Museum - Photograph Archive

  • Group photograph of 1000 West Indian members of the RAF arriving at a British port in 1944 (Ref: IWM CH 13438) © Imperial War Museum Photo.
  • Photograph of Noor Inyat Khan, WW2 Special Operations Executive. © Imperial War Museum photo

London Metropolitan Archives

  • Black Experience Arts Programme poster, commissioned by the GLC, dated 1986, © London Metropolitan Archive

Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Library

  • Group photograph c.1911, National Union of Seamen Archive (MSS.175/ 12), © Modern Records Centre

The above-mentioned organisations retain copyright on all the photographic images displayed on this web site, therefore no image files can be copied or downloaded from this web site without obtaining prior, written permission from the copyright holders and the CASBAH project, in accordance with current UK and EU copyright legislation.

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