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London Metropolitan Archives

SAAM THEATRE GROUP


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 LMA/4530

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: SAAM THEATRE GROUP

Date(s): 2007-2008

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 0.15 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Saam Theatre Group

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

This oral history project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and run by Saam Theatre Group. Its aim was to collect and present oral history testimonies of Iranian settlers in London. All the interviews were conducted by young London Iranians. The project ran from 2007-2008 and ended with an audio/visual exhibition of the finished interviews, which ran for three weeks from 1 May 2008.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Saam Theatre Group oral history project. The collection consists of a description of the running of the project and typewritten transcripts of the eight interviews, and CD versions of the interviews with a video report on the running of the project on DVD. Because of their format, the CDs and DVD are currently available by appointment only.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

LMA/4530/01: Oral History Project.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information may be subject to access restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Records deposited in 2009.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: June to August 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Emigration | Migration
Immigrants | Migrants
Immigration | Migration
Iranian (cultural identity) | National identity | Cultural nationalism | Cultural identity
Oral history | Historical methods | History

Personal names

Corporate names
Saam Theatre Group

Places
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe