The Liverpool Muslim Institute at 8 Brougham Terrace was purchased by Abdullah Quilliam and the mortgages for 11, and 12....
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Origins of 'Macamatheou' In 2001, the local name Macamathehou became of interest by Kenneth Cameron, John Field and John Insley...
This was the residence of Fatima Elizabeth Cates (1865-1900), as listed in the 1891 Census, among the first women to...
This was the site of the first Muslim prayer hall in the UK, which was formally established as the Liverpool...
The first location of the printing offices of the first Muslim periodical published in Britain, the weekly Crescent (1893-1908), the...
The chambers of Quilliam and Sons, headed by a convert to Islam, the lawyer and journalist, William Henry Abdullah Quilliam...
Stalybridge Town Hall was built in 1831. It saw two additional extensions during the Victorian period and was one of...
Altab Ali Park can be found on the intersection of Adler Street, White Church Lane and Whitechapel Road. This green...
Bury Park is a district in Luton, United Kingdom, known for its significant Muslim community. The area has a long...
Allama Iqbal was the greatest poet-philosopher of the Indian Subcontinent whose poetry in the Urdu language is considered among the...
In 1904, the great Bradford Exhibition was held in Lister Park. It was held to inaugurate the newly-built Cartwright Hall,...
In late April 1895, a group of sixty-six Somalis arrived at the Tilbury Docks aboard the Clan Ross. They came...
Built in 1887, Algerian Coffee Stores is one of London's oldest existing Cafes. Opened by Algerian Muslim, Mr Hassan, this...
Founded in 1921, City of Oxford Motor Services Limited was an important site of employment in the 1950s and 1960s...
Site of the first mixed congregational prayer led by a woman (Prof Amina Wadud) in the UK, 18th October 2008....
The Didicot Ordinance Depot at the Vauxhall Barracks, established during the First World War, was a major site of Pakistani...
A major site of employment which attracted Pakistani Muslims from Sheffield and Bradford. According to the newsreel source linked to...
The UK’s first halal farm, located in Cherwell. In 2002, Lutfi Radwan, a lecturer at the University of Oxford, and...
18 October 2008
Oxford Masonic Centre
Site of the first mixed congregational prayer led by a woman (Prof Amina Wadud) in the UK, 18th October 2008. Organized by The Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford.
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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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