Here and Now

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Media Archive for Central England
MACE is the strategic lead organisation for screen heritage for the East and West Midlands regions. An independent charity based at University of Lincoln, MACE preserves and makes accessible a collection of more than 100,000 historic moving images representative of the diverse cultures and histories of communities throughout the heart of England from the Lincolnshire coast to the Welsh border.

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Multi cultural arts and lifestyle series. This week: a new Ras Tafarian centre in Wolverhampton; dance from Durga Lal; a discussion about the lessons that can be learnt from racism and sectarianism and an appeal for St. Vincent.


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Multicultural TV

This collection covers programming that emerged from specialist multicultural and Black broadcasting units.
A multicultural Britain was forebodingly cast as an oncoming social issue. Only at the behest of campaigning by the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (established in 1965) did the programming introduced begin to frame Asian and later Black Britons as part of British society and cater directly to their needs. The earliest examples were programmes broadcast by the BBC Apna Hi Ghar Samajhiye (1965) and Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan (New Life), which helped improve the English skills of recent Asian migrants. Targeted programming initially emerged regionally, and franchise holders in the midlands who feared the impending reallocation of franchises reacted quickly, leading to multicultural programming such as Here Today, Here Tomorrow (ATV, 1978), Here and Now (Central TV, 1978). In London, London Weekend Television produced Babylon (LWT, 1979), and the London Minorities Unit produced Skin (1980), an extensive focus of our collection. During the emergence of Channel 4, Black programming was in-built into the new channel. Black commissioners, researchers, and presenters emerged, leading to Black and Asian-led series like Black on Black (1982), Eastern Eye (1982), Bandung File (1985), and Black Bag (1985). These programmes catered not only with increasing specificity to their respective audiences but also took on an increasingly globally connective approach centred around acknowledging the intricacy of diasporic relations.

25 videos in this collection

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Bob Marley

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Black Actors

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Attacks on Asians and West Indians

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Immigration Laws Part 1

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Bengalis and the Rag Trade

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Here and Now

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After the Deptford Fire: A Watershed in British Relations

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Here and Now

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Multi-cultural Education

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Divided Families

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Football

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Blues Parties

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Here and Now

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Asian Doctors

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Here and Now

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25 Years of Black British Part 4

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Education in Haringey

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Benjamin Zephaniah, James Berry and Buchi Emecheta at Words to Life (Here and Now)

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The Deptford Fire

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Police - Black Relations Part Two

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Black Churches

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Immigration Laws Part 2

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Villain Boroughs

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Housing in Southall

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Here and Now

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