Meet Ramela, an Armenian from many places
When my patients ask me where I am from, I usually reply, “Wyke Regis in Weymouth.” They shake their heads and ask, “No, nurse, where are you really from?” [...]
Introduction to the project – Where are you really from?
Louisa Adjoa Parker explains what the project is and how it was created.
Meet Fin, from Cornwall
(Fin’s story as told by himself and his mum, Colleen to Louisa Adjoa Parker) Fin is 8 years old and lives near St Austell, Cornwall. He defines himself as [...]
Meet Rachel Edwards, who is Jamaican-Nigerian, from Oxfordshire
I was born in Truro, Cornwall. My dad comes from Nigeria, and my mum is from Jamaica. I define my ethnicity as Jamaican-Nigerian, or more broadly Black British and [...]
Meet Leon, who’s mixed race and lives near Bridport
Hi, I am Leon. I live a few miles north of Bridport. Ethnically I am mixed race – my father is from Trinidad and my mother is from Kent. [...]
Meet Sethina, who is mixed Ghanaian and British
I was born in Accra, Ghana, and lived there until I was 3. My mother is from Bristol and the south west, as were my grandparents Hugh and Sonia. [...]
Where are you really from? Becca, Martha & Tamzin’s stories
Where are you really from? is a project being run by The Inclusion Agency (TIA). We plan to digitalise the stories of black and brown people's rural lives. Our [...]
Meet Nick from Buckfastleigh: The family moves out of London
My maternal grandfather was a white, working-class, London man made good. He was born in 1901; patriotic, racist, paternal, homophobic and sexist. He voted Conservative. But he was also [...]
Where are you really from? Martha’s Story
Martha tells her story of what life was like growing up in the rural setting of The Cotswolds in Gloucestershire. Taken from the podcast Where are you really from?
Meet Martha, from the Cotswolds
I’ve lived in London for ten years but I am from a small village in the Cotswolds. I would say that I’m mixed race or Black. I use brown [...]