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Here are some hit lists for searches on popular topics covered in the Moving Here Catalogue. We hope that this offers you a taster of the wide range of items you can access on Moving Here and helps you to get started.

Legislation and Acts Education and school (Caribbean Community)
Housing and accommodation Festivals and celebrations
Memories from the Islands. An exhibition of stories contributed by Haringey University of the Third Age, based on Ministry of Information images from the Caribbean. Passenger lists for the ship Empire Windrush (Caribbean community). You can search for passengers' names in these documents by typing the name in the Keywords box on the search form.
Passenger list for the Clan Davidson ship (South Asian community). You can search for passengers' names in these documents by typing the name in the Keywords box on the search form. Internees indexes, 1939, for people with the name Thomas (Jewish community). You can search for passengers' names in these documents by typing the name in the Keywords box on the search form.
Cecil Beaton photographs from his India Album A selection of Maps
Greater London Council Posters from the 1980s Photographs from the Vanley Burke Collection, Birmingham
The Keys. A newspaper from the League of Coloured People, 1933 - 1939 Jews Free School, London. Material from London Metropolitan Archives.
Discrimination and racism  

Do not feel disappointed if you do not find exactly what you are looking for because these are only examples of what you could find. Feel free to have a go and explore the Catalogue for yourself ... this is only the tip of the iceberg!