Moving Here

Moving Here is the ultimate database of digitized photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences of the past 200 years.

Lascars onboard the Viceroy of India, date unknown. Repro ID: P85233 ©National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, LondonCollected together here for the first time are documents, photographs, sound and film clips selected by curators and researchers at archives and museums all over England. These incredible fragments of history are presented by specialist writers and historians and available for you to download.

Along with personal experiences from England's Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and south Asian migrant communities, Moving Here will help and guide you through the many different ways you can find out when and how your family first came to England and where they settled.

Most of the material available on the site has been contributed by the Moving Here partners of museums, archives and libraries across England. The senior partners on this project are:

• Black Cultural Archives
• British Library
• Jewish Museum London
• London Metropolitan Archives
• Museum of London
• National Maritime Museum
• National Archives
• Royal Geographical Society
• V&A (Victoria and Albert Museum)
• West Yorkshire Archives Service

Useful link

Discover the communities who have made the port of London their home on the PortCities London website.