'From Jamaica to England Part 5: What happened next?': Reading Race, Collecting Cultures - The Roving Reader Files: 'From Jamaica to England'

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre is an open access University of Manchester facility. The blog 'Reading Race, Collecting Cultures' (www.aiucentre.wordpress.com) features on its website (www.racearchive.manchester.ac.uk). The Roving Reader Files category of blog posts is produced by Alison Newby (under the pseudonym The Roving Reader) in collaboration with Hannah Niblett (Collections Access Officer). The former provides the text and the latter provides the images. The Roving Reader Files are designed as public engagement materials. The intention is to introduce research skills and terminology to the general user/reader in an entertaining yet informative manner by revealing hidden stories, making unusual connections and sharing insights into using the Centre's collection for research. The five-part "From Jamaica to England" series traces the experiences of Jamaicans from differing social backgrounds as they migrated to England during the 1950s to 1980s, introducing along the way several key academic concepts: secondary sources and their role, particularly well-researched biographies; primary sources of differing types, such as traditional autobiographies and printed autobiographical accounts produced by adult literacy projects; how primary and secondary sources can combine to enrich a multifaceted picture; using internet-based resources to provide additional context to studies.