Bangladeshi Innovators at Toynbee Hall

Since the 1960s, innovators from the Bangladeshi community have worked with and for Toynbee Hall to develop and run programmes that met the needs of the growing community. One of those was Captain Shiv Banerjee. He came to live at Toynbee Hall and later became its first Bangladeshi employee.

Bangladeshi Innovators at Toynbee Hall
A meeting of the Bengali Health Advisory Service, 1970s.  [Catalogue reference: LMA/4683/IMG/05/11/001]
Bangladeshi Innovators at Toynbee Hall
Children learning the Koran at Toynbee Hall  [Catalogue reference: LMA/4683/IMG/04/058]
English class run by Rahman Jilani
English class run by Rahman Jilani, 1970s
Group of people from Progressive Youth Movement AGM sitting at tables in Toynbee Hall
Progressive Youth Movement AGM at Toynbee Hall, c. 1970s  [Catalogue reference: LMA/4683/IMG/05/11/001]
Himangshu Goswami
Toynbee Hall’s Asian Music Club concert by Bangladeshi singer Himangshu Goswami, c. 1978.  [Catalogue reference: LMA/4683/IMG/05/10/008]
Bangladeshi Innovators at Toynbee Hall

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