A Book Launch Event: A triple launch celebration

Welcome to the A Triple Book Launch event! Join us at the Victoria Gallery & Museum - Leggate Theatre for an exciting afternoon.

We will be celebrating the release of 3 new books with the editors and authors. This in-person event promises to be a memorable experience for all attendees. Don't miss out on this opportunity to immerse yourself in the world of Urban and migrant heritage. We'll be joined by Professor Iain Jackson, Dr Atta Allsaloum and Dr Ian Magedera.

Envisioning the Indian City edited by Supriya Chaudhuri, Nandini Das, Iain Jackson and Ian Magedera

This book offers a set of new, ground-breaking studies of Indian cities as sites of physical, cultural and historical encounter. It places three colonial cities – Goa, Calcutta/Kolkata and Pondicherry/Puducherry – side by side with the postcolonial city of Chandigarh, created by the independent Indian state, to examine the specificities of cross-cultural exchanges, physical settings, urban flows, social imaginaries and built spaces, as developed over time and experienced by a variety of urban actors. If the city is, as Henri Lefebvre described it, a space of ‘encounter, assembly, simultaneity,’ colonial cities demonstrated the encounter of European imperialism and capitalism with the non-European populations and cultures they sought to subjugate.

Architecture, Empire, and Trade - The United Africa Company by Iain Jackson, Ewan Harrison, Michele Tenzon,Rixt Woudstra and Claire Tunstall

This open access book tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC). From the imperial Royal Niger Company's charter in the 1890s through to its suave African department stores of the 1960s, the UAC – a British company firmly embedded in the economies of colonialism, extraction, and exploitation – became the largest commercial firm in West Africa, involved in almost every commercial enterprise and sector, and responsible for procuring architecture, infrastructure, and city real-estate across a vast region.

Tracing Intangible Cultural Migrant Heritage in the UK edited by Atta Alsalloum

This book explores the role of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) among migrant communities in the UK. It examines how diverse cultural practices, from life celebrations to death commemorations, have travelled with communities, evolved in new settings, and taken root in the UK. Through case studies from different community groups, spanning oral traditions, performing arts, social customs, and craftsmanship, this book illustrates how ICH becomes a vital part of everyday life, identity, and belonging within the UK’s multicultural mosaic.

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