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Oct 22, 2018 · Notting Hill became entwined with modern culture. The Beatles filmed part of A Hard Day’s Night in the streets of the local streets. Mick Jagger bought his famous red hussar’s jacket from ‘I Was Lord Kitchener’s Valet’ in Portobello Road, starting a trend even copied by the Beatles.
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...
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.
Abstract. 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
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.
Apr 15, 2022 · This article uses arrest data and contemporary social research to show that while unemployment and the housing crisis were undoubtedly acute in West London, these issues alone cannot explain the Notting Hill riots. The article maps the incidence of violence and the locations of the rioters’ homes.
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In 1958 both the Nottingham Race Riots and the Notting Hill riots took place, as violent fights broke out between white and black people. Amid this hostile atmosphere, Trinidadian human rights...
