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1914 - 1 January 1964

Didcot Central Ordinance Depot

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The Didicot Ordinance Depot at the Vauxhall Barracks, established during the First World War, was a major site of Pakistani employment until its closure on 1 January 1964. After the 1965 Race Relations Act, many of these employees moved to British Leylands, where there had been a colour bar; British Leylands paid a much higher wage to its semi-skilled laborers. This led to a shift in the demographic distribution of the city, as more Muslim South Asians moved to Cowley to work for British Leyland.

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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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