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1921

Oxford Bus Services

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Founded in 1921, City of Oxford Motor Services Limited was an important site of employment in the 1950s and 1960s for immigrants from across the Commonwealth, including Oxford's large Pakistani population. Racialised minority immigrants were often employed to work on buses, railways and in hospitals when white workers left to take on better paid jobs in the car industry (e.g. Morris Motors).

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See: Stephen Tuck, The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union : A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014).

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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