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  2. The impact of the 1958 Notting Hill riots tends to figure in histories of the political right, as a galvanizing force for anti-immigrant sentiment—or as radical catalyst in the transnational history of the Black Atlantic.

    • Camilla Schofield, Ben Jones
    • 2019
  3. After a series of racially motivated attacks on the West Indian residents of West London’s Notting Hill area in August 1958, Trinidadian human rights activist Claudia Jones decided to create a...

  4. Lesson details. Key learning points. What local records, including newspapers and diaries, can tell us about Notting Hill. What national records, including opinion polls and census reports, can tell about Notting Hill. Sources have different strengths and weaknesses. Common misconception.

  5. Oct 22, 2018 · With the continued influx of migrants from the West Indies, inter-racial tensions grew, part fuelled by the increased competition for scarce affordable housing, and came to a head with the infamous Notting Hill riots in 1958.

    • Abstract
    • Overcrowding and ‘Friction’
    • Mapping The Riots
    • Interracial Couples and ‘Defensive Proletarianism’
    • ‘Your Streets’: Mosley on The Campaign Trail
    • Conclusion

    Over five nights at the end of summer 1958, a decade after the beginning of large-scale migration from the Caribbean to Britain, young white men attacked black residents and attempted to drive them off the streets of West London. The riots took place in Ladbroke Grove and Notting Dale as well as Notting Hill proper, but the disturbances were quickl...

    Notting Hill’s supply of poor-quality privately owned flats made it a reception area for people from the Caribbean who were shut out of better private rental accommodation and council housing.21 In the 1950s hardly any people born in the Caribbean lived in council housing, though some from South Asia did.22 With long waiting lists for council housi...

    The Notting Hill riots began on the Saturday of the August bank holiday weekend of 1958. They followed weeks of lesser disturbances in the area. On the lookout for other places where racist violence might break out after the rioting in St Ann’s in Nottingham, the Manchester Guardian reported: ‘the Notting Hill Gate-Shepherd’s Bush area … has been u...

    Interracial couples were conspicuous. Majbritt Morrison, a white woman from Sweden with a Jamaican-born husband, was brought to the attention of a hostile crowd at the outset of the riots by someone who knew about the relationship. On the first night of the riots, the Saturday, a man in the crowd recognized her and shouted: ‘There she goes, a black...

    Figures across the political spectrum recognized that community was one of the things at stake in the Notting Hill riots. Camilla Schofield and Ben Jones have shown how black, socialist, and Christian activists who set to work in Notting Hill after the riots framed the riots as ‘an outgrowth of a failing community’. The idea of a ‘fragmenting commu...

    The significance of the 1959 contest lies less in the number of votes Mosley received than in the way his campaign identified messages that would become fixtures of racist rhetoric. An out-of-touch establishment, white people becoming estranged from their old haunts, streets being taken over by people of colour: these were all themes of Peter Griff...

  6. Racist violence in the Notting Hill riots of 1958 was driven by gangs of white youths, known as ‘Teddy boys’, who particularly targeted black men who were in relationships with white women.

  7. A Storied Past. In the 1800s, Notting Hill began to transform. It became a hub for brick and pottery manufacturing, which brought an influx of residents and workers. The rapid urbanization, however, led to crowded living conditions and issues of poverty.

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