Memories of Partition – 70 years on

New Archives blog published today from Farzana Whitfield, South Asia Librarian at SOAS, looking at family memories of Partition:


https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/archives/2017/08/14/memories-of-partition-70-years-on/

Hidden voices of Muslim women

A talk given by Dr Pippa Virdee of De Montfort University entitled 'Hidden Women: uncovering the veil of silence during the partition of Punjab, India 1947' is now available as a podcast from the National Archives.

Using first-hand accounts, Dr Virdee reveals how women, often sheltered from private and public spaces, created their own space during this complex and traumatising time.

(Image courtesy of National Archives)

See: http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/hidden-women.htm