The members’ bar of the Southbank Centre in London is not the first place you’d look for a plot to change the face of British culture. But that’s where you’ll find Barbara Roche, the former Labour immigration minister, and Sophie Henderson, an immigration lawyer taking a break from her usual job. This is the temporary office of the Migration Museum Project, which is backed by several MPs and counts Roche as chair of trustees and Henderson as director. Both were inspired by Robert Winder’s book Bloody Foreigners, which told the centuries-long tale of immigration to Britain, and suggested in a footnote that a museum might reduce our widespread ignorance of the subject.
“It’s everybody’s story,” says Roche. “The only difference between people is how long ago they came.” That’s something that seems to have been forgotten in all the current talk of a “crisis” in Calais and a “swarm” of migrants. The story of immigration to the UK ....
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