Sheila Lam recalls her first impressions of London: 'It can be a really scary place, and scary things are happen.... more

Tamara Zimet arrived in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic and feared she'd made a terrible mistake.

More than forty years after moving to the UK from Ireland, Ross Fitzsimons is still haunted by the plight of... more

Eric Ngalle Charles recalls how he came to the UK under an assumed identity, and with the passage of time, he... more

Colm Tohill recalls growing up during a time of violent conflict in Northern Ireland with a mix of stoicism and... more

Joanna Surowiec found that performing stand-up comedy led her to create a deeper understanding of British culture and a closer... more

Anne Tristine Nguyen recalls her remarkable journey from a slum in Saigon, Vietnam to a Scottish castle.

Dagmara Rudkin recounts how she left Poland as a teenager and was prepared to work all the hours she could... more

Abha Sharma confides that she is undecided as to whether she would prefer India, the UK, or neither of those... more

When Steve McCoy moved from Malaysia to the UK as an A-level student in the 1970s, he thought of it... more