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EMBS Community College

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EMBS was founded in 1988 as a self-help business service for racialised minority groups in Oxford. One of its founders is Mohammad Afzal, a British-Pakistani business owner who was also chairman of Central Oxford Mosque. Over time, EMBS has evolved into an adult education centre and sixth form, serving groups including refugees, asylum seekers and those who speak English as a second language. The history of the college, as a place where Oxford's most marginalised groups could acquire an education and training, transforms existing ideas about the history of education in the city.

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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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