Britanahay Բրիտանահայ: Armenian and British

The Armenian Institute in London is very pleased to announce our participation in the British Library’s new display, Britanahay Բրիտանահայ: Armenian and British, due to be open to the public at the Library's premises on Euston Road, in its Treasures Gallery, from 27 September 2025 until 22 February 2026.

This remarkable showcase brings together printed works and manuscripts from the Library’s collection, illuminating centuries of British-Armenian connections. Enriched with gripping audio clips from the Armenian Institute’s Heritage of Displacement oral history project, the display offers a vivid encounter with voices, histories, and traditions that continue to shape our shared heritage.

Heritage of Displacement: Oral Histories from the UK Armenian Communities (2023–2026)

With this new, large-scale project, the Institute aims to help British-Armenian communities to take part in preserving their heritage of displacement, migration, and resettlement. This oral history project will collect the memories of members of the Armenian diaspora settled in London and Manchester, the two largest Armenian communities in the UK. Family stories and personal relationships with cultural traditions will be recorded and preserved, with a desire to shed light on paths of migration, and how Armenians have recreated ‘home’. The project also aims to document tangible heritage through the digitisation of family photographs and the photogrammetry (3D rendering) of memorabilia and family heirloom objects. This new digital archive of recorded interviews, material heritage, and photographs will be hosted on a new dedicated website that will remain available as a resource for the community and for academic research.

This project is funded by a National Lottery Heritage Fund grant, thanks to National Lottery players.

Armenian Diaspora Survey (ADS)

The Armenian Diaspora Project conducts surveys of public opinion in Armenian diaspora communities to inform the public, scholars, policy-makers, and community leaders about the issues, attitudes, and trends shaping the Armenian world in the 21st century.

Led by a team of academics, researchers, and experts, the Armenian Diaspora Survey (ADS) aims to provide a snapshot of the contemporary Diaspora. The project fills a critical gap in the knowledge of the Diaspora and provides an evidence-based understanding of the multilayered and diverse aspects of diasporic life.

ADS is funded by the Armenian Communities Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and carried out under the auspices of the Armenian Institute in London.

Armenian Studies Group

It is a place where researchers, students, post-grads and professionals share their work-in-progress with an interested and supportive group. The ASG is a safe space to present, get feedback on ideas and structure, and be encouraged to keep at those revisions and finish up the work.