Videos tagged with INDIA
From Kenya to Britain
Mr Singh talks about his memories in the UK having migrated from Kenya as a child - he talks about his experiences settling into a new culture, life at a British school and how he feels in modern day Britain.
Celebrating Sankaranti in India (Kite Day)
Sneha talks about the Hindu festival of Sankaranti also known as Kite Day.
Life in Trinidad for an Indian family in the 1950s
Tara Ramdeen's family moved to Trinidad from India to work in the plantations. They ended up settling there and it is where she spent a very happy childhood, although she did feel elements of separation from the Afro-Caribbean community. In this interview Tara explains what life was like on the beautiful, self-sufficient island and how her family maintained their Indian culture in such vastly different surroundings.
Early life in Trinidad for an Indian family - Surpassing Slavery and Enforced Religion
Tara Ramdeen speaks of how her grandfather moved over from India in the early 20th Century to Trinidad, along with many others who came over to work on the plantations. Life was very tough for poor families back then but he managed to work his way up and buy some land on which he built self-help houses and played Indian musical instruments with travelling musicians. Tara speaks of how slaves were brought over and the harsh circumstances they faced. She speaks of her childhood in Trinidad and how she rebelled against anything Indian and was frightened into wanting to become a Christian because of what she was told at school. She also speaks of her early memories of this great man, her grandfather, and his ideals that have stayed with her to this day...
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Secretarial work, typing pools and using the first ever photocopier in the 1950s
Jacki Rogers talks about life during the 1950s training to be a secretary. She recounts her experience learning to type through 'touch type'and going on to work in a busy typing pool. She learned Pitm
Flight of FANY!
During WW2 Elizabeth Ward was a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY) working for SOE. By September 1944 she was stationed in Bari, Italy but a back injury meant she'd have to return to Brit
My Grandpa, My Hero: Memories of Monte Cassino
Melissa recalls stories told to her by her Grandpa who served during WWII in the Battle of Monte Cassino, how he won the prestigious Medal of Valor and the heart rendering decision of choosing between
Earliest memory of World's Oldest man
Henry William Allingham was born on 6th June 1896 and, at the time he gave this interview, was a supercentenarian, World War I veteran and at the age of 113 years and 13 days, the oldest living man
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Operation Mincemeat (aka The Man Who Never Was)
Operation Mincemeat was a top secret WW2 deception operation designed to fool the Germans as to where an Allied invasion in the Mediterranean would take place. Patricia Davies worked as a secreta
ATOMIC BOMBING OF NAGASAKI Part 2
John Baxter was captured by the Japanese in 1942 and held first on Java. He was then transported to a camp on mainland Japan near Kyushu a coal mining area. Here he talks about being in Nagasaki in 19
ONBOARD HMS COVENTRY JUST BEFORE ATTACK during Falklands War
After HMS Sheffield was hit during the Falklands War, morale onboard HMS Coventry was down...but only for a bit! Coventry and her crew started preparing for further attacks. Here David Wood who serve
LAST TRAIN OUT OF PRAGUE 1939
Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines is from Prague. She came to England in 1939 as one of nearly 700 Jewish children saved from the Nazis by Sir Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker who earned the nickname 'Britain
Secretarial work, typing pools and using the first ever photocopier in the 1950s
Jacki Rogers talks about life during the 1950s training to be a secretary. She recounts her experience learning to type through 'touch type'and going on to work in a busy typing pool. She learned Pitm
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