Anand Mangal – My Happy Place

Memories of Migration and the Partition of India

What an amazing group of women! Local ladies of South Asian heritage, mostly aged over 60, have been working in partnership with Loughborough University exploring South Asian memories of Partition in the UK and their relevance to contemporary life.

We were delighted to be a partner in this project leading on the exploration of how the various aspects of our heritage service could support them to explore their memories of migration. Using our collections, professional curatorial expertise and market town museums the ladies have been reminiscing and sharing their unique life experiences to tell their story their way.

Watch a film about our amazing 2 year journey here.

Loughborough University

“Working with the Anand Mangal group, we have been using fashion and textiles as a means to trigger memories and to think about identity, heritage and change over space and time. Our partnership with the museums has been a wonderful way to bring out these conversations, particularly surrounding identity, heritage and belonging, with the hope to share these, often under-represented, stories and memories to the wider public through an exhibition. Through the project, we are gaining an alternative perspective in how to access, represent and share issues of heritage and feelings of belonging in Loughborough.”

– Jasmine Hornabrook, Research Associate, Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination