toggle menuMENU A Story Left Behind Screening and Workshop LocationArts One Building Queen Mary University 1 Westfield Way London E1 4PDCategoryBlack History Month, Free to attend, Heritage and museums, Workshops and activitiesDate(s)Thursday 16th October 2025 (13:00-14:30)ContactFirst come, first serve admissionDescriptionThe New Black Film Collective, in celebration of Black History Month, present a special screening of:Short film: A Story Left BehindA young British-Somali researcher discovers a record of the first Somali woman to live in Sheffield and fills in the gaps of her story.Dir: Asma KabadehDur: 14mWorkshop: Asma KabadehAsma will take participants on a brief journey through the Sheffield and Tower Hamlets archives to uncover post-war Somali migration. This workshop will bring together historical records and personal memory, mapping the legacy of Somali presence in these localities. The workshop will ask us to critically examine archival representations for Somali & wider diasporic communities and challenge the dominance of public records as the sole source of history.