We’re still continuing the work of making short animated films based on extracts from our interviews with the first generation of Pakistanis and Bangladeshis to arrive in Rossendale. Anyone visiting the Different Moons exhibition at the end of last year would have seen four such films. The latest is from Jess, our apprentice Jessica Royle. …

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Yesterday we interviewed Samina Hussain about her life and work for the Different Moons archive. Samina was born in Karachi, and had been an air-stewardess with Pakistan International Airlines when she came to England, having married Mazhar Hussain in the early 1980s.  Samina was surprised to find that, when she first arrived in Rossendale, the…

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