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A philanthropic body under the Poor Law Reform Act of 1832. Built workhouses, housing, schools and hospitals, including the famous...
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Built by the Quilliam Family, four generations lived in this house from the 1870s to the 1950s. Includes some biographical...
8 Brougham Terrace was the site of Britain's first attested mosque community, called the Liverpool Muslim Institute (LMI). It was...
This entry includes information about the personal life of Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932) and in particular about the two families in...
The Medina Home for Children was the first orphanage founded by Muslims in the UK, and was established in 1896....
The Mosque was first founded in 1953 by the late Al-Haj Ali Hizzam, a house transformed into a mosque, Masjid...
Located in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, East London Mosque is a part of the London Muslim Centre and...
Located on the edge of Regent’s Park, the London Central Mosque, the land for the mosque was presented as a...
The Magistrates Courts (formerly known as the Police Courts) where the Muslim convert and solicitor William Henry Abdullah Quilliam (1856-1932)...
This is a Grade I listed building whose interior is built in an exuberant Orientalist style, a mix of Moorish,...
Bradford's oldest mosque was established by the Pakistani Muslim Association in 1958 at 30 Howard Street. It sits a row...
Robert Stanley led the project to build the Victoria Market Hall, just three years after he had been elected as...
After getting married to Emma Meredith at the age of 19, Robert set up a grocers and tea shop with...
Shortly after stepping down as Mayor of Stalybridge, Robert, Emma, and some of his grown up children moved to the...
This masjid was established by Pir Maroof Hussain, a local spiritual leader who acknowledged the need for a place of...
Located in Southfields, London near King George's Park and Southfields train station, the Fazl Mosque, also known as the London...
'The East London Mosque Trust has rich a history spanning more than a century. It is London’s oldest Mosque, serving...
The grandiose building, which was finished in 1843, began life as the Lancashire Independent College, which belonged to the Congregational...
Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) was the ruler of Mysore, an independent state in southern India. With his father, he was...
104 Main Street in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, was the birthplace and primary residence of John Parkinson (1874-1814), Britain's founding Muslim poet....
Caxton Hall is a location in which many momentous events occurred, including the assassination of Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the campaign...
The history of Bangladesh's independence can be traced to the 1947 Partition of British India, and to the history of...
The National Liberal Club (NLC) was established by William Gladstone in 1882, to provide club facilities for Liberal Party campaigners. ...
The Royal Pavilion, also known as the Brighton Pavilion, is a historic Grade I listed former royal residence situated in...
Jamal's Tandoori Restaurant has been a significant place of networking for Muslims across the city. During the 1950s and 1960s,...
Al Shami restaurant was the site of Oxford's first halal butchers, and was established in the 1960s. Prior to its...
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Al Shami
Al Shami restaurant was the site of Oxford's first halal butchers, and was established in the 1960s. Prior to its opening, Muslim residents of the city had to travel widely to find halal products, or butcher their own meat. An interviewee - one of the first Pakistanis to settle in Oxford - remembered the difficulty of transporting chickens from local farms to his home in East Oxford, with one escaping on the bus. These businesses highlighted the embedded presence of Muslims in Oxford, as Muslim entrepreneurs navigated the local economy to create services which would support a more comfortable long-term settlement.
Notice that the earliest Muslim migration to the city was in Jericho. Until 1960s, this was where many immigrants and working-class people settled. Council-sponsored slum clearances in the late 1960s, however, pushed families into the East End of Oxford – various migratory trajectories, so to speak.
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Interview with Mr Khuja, A Muslim History of Oxford (4 September 2024)
Shaw, A., A Pakistani Community in Britain (Oxford: Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988).
Aleena Din - Aleena is a historian of gender, class and race in modern Britain. Her DPhil research, which was completed at Balliol College and the Faculty of History in 2022, focuses on the migration, settlement and labour experiences of working-class British-Pakistani women who settled in Middlesbrough and Oldham between 1962 and 2002. Aleena is the co-investigator of the community history project 'A Muslim History of Oxford', in collaboration with the national heritage organisation 'Everyday Muslim'. In addition, she is a postdoctoral research associate for the digital humanities project, 'Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830 to the Present' at the University of Bristol (2025).
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