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1. www.thenational.academy › teachers › programmesLesson: Notting Hill - sources and historical context ...

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   Which of these questions might a historian find the answers to using the diary of a customer from The Mangrove? How many instances of police brutality were there daily in Notting Hill? Correct answer: What led to the Mangrove Nine protest?

2. www.thehistorypress.co.uk › article › a-briefA brief history of Notting Hill - The History Press

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   Oct 22, 2018 · Many took relatively menial jobs and found accommodation hard to find especially when so many were made homeless and forced to live in appalling conditions in part as a result of the wartime blitz. This preceded the first Race Relations Act, when it was not yet illegal to advertise rooms for rent but ‘no blacks, no Irish’.

3. www.cnn.com › 2024/05/22 › opinionsOpinion: Rewatching ‘Notting Hill,’ the truly unbelievable ...

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   May 22, 2024 · Two decades later, in May 1968, a new generation of social critics would again single out Notting Hill’s private gardens as indefensible symbols of Britain’s enduring social stratification —...

4. www.cambridge.org › core › journals“Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”: Notting Hill and the ...

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   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.

   • Author: Camilla Schofield, Ben Jones

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5. cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk › documents › educationEmpire Windrush: Life for Migrants in the 1940s and 50s

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   In 1958 there were riots in the Nottingham and Notting Hill, London. These involved serious fights between ‘teddy boys’ and new arrivals. The homes of immigrants were also attacked. At this...

6. pastinthepresent.net › 2018/06/28 › remembering-theRemembering the Windrush Generation in Notting Hill

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   Jun 28, 2018 · Notting Hill had once been considered elegant when the first new homes were built on fields in the 1840s. But over the course of the 20th century it was a neighbourhood that declined dramatically, particularly following the Blitz.

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   What happened to Notting Hill?

   • But over the course of the 20th century it was a neighbourhood that declined dramatically, particularly following the Blitz. “Notting Hill was a notorious example of a 19th-century suburb gone wrong: dotted with cheap lodging houses, bedsits and flats ‘crawling with rats and rubbish,'” wrote Nick Barratt in his book, Greater London.

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   Was Notting Hill a 'community'?

   • This article treats Notting Hill after 1958 as an important locale of new progressive thinking and action. It seeks to consider the political work that the idea of “community” did in Notting Hill, allowing us consider how the politics of antiracism relates in complex ways to the reformulation of progressive politics in postwar Britain.

   “Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”: Notting Hill and the

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   Why was Notting Hill a good place to live?

   • The area was close to central London and it was cheap so it suited the emerging alternative lifestyles of the time. The narrative of The Other Side ends here but the character of Notting Hill was starting to change again although the old divisions between the top of the hill and the other side continue to this day.

   A brief history of Notting Hill - The History Press

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   What was the impact of the 1958 Notting Hill riots?

   • “Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”: Notting Hill... Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 March 2019 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.

   “Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”: Notting Hill and the

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   Who flocked to Notting Hill after the riots?

   • Meanwhile, the generation of black and white social workers and activists who flocked to Notting Hill after the riots have largely been left out of the history of the British left. This article treats Notting Hill after 1958 as an important locale of new progressive thinking and action.

   “Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”: Notting Hill and the

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   Can Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant live in Notting Hill?

   • Twenty-five years since Richard Curtis’ film ‘Notting Hill’, the most unbelievable part is not the love story between Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant, but rather that Grant’s character can afford to live in Notting Hill. Laura Beers writes.

   Opinion: Rewatching ‘Notting Hill,’ the truly unbelievable part is Hugh

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8. www.mylondon.news › news › west-london-newsNotting Hill 20 years on: How the Hugh Grant film changed ...

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   Jul 8, 2019 · Notting Hill told the tale of travel bookshop owner William Thacker (Hugh Grant) falling in love with Hollywood star Anna Scott (Julia Roberts). Twenty years on from its first release, the film’s influence is still very much felt in the area.