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A new digital collection from AHDS Visual Arts has brought together nearly three thousand images from the South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive (SALIDAA), an organisation created to highlight the richness and diversity of contemporary South Asian literature and arts in Britain. The SALIDAA collection covers five main areas: literature, visual arts, theatre, dance and music and includes material in the English language dating, approximately, from 1947 to the present. Examples of work from this archive include an eclectic collection of artwork, photographs, flyers and exhibition programmes from Avinash Chandra, one of the most successful contemporary Indian British painters; album art from Outcaste Records, a major label in world music, and excerpts from Anita Hosain’s semi-autographical novel Sunlight on a Broken Column which explores themes of family, rebellion and social and political change as India is on the verge of Partitition. Although not comprehensive, the SALIDAA collection provides a representative sample of the artistic and cultural contribution made by South Asian people to the developments of arts and literature in Britain. AHDS Visual Arts is pleased to be delivering this interesting collection and now has over 50,000 freely available and fully cross-searchable images for research, learning and teaching. For more information on SALIDAA go to http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/collections/SALIDAA.html Visit SALIDAA and all other AHDS Visual Arts collections at http://visualarts.ahds.ac.uk.