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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?
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
Finding accommodation became difficult for many commonwealth immigrants because of growing prejudice and discrimination in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1958 there were riots in the...
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’.
There were racial attacks and years later race riots broke out in cities across Britain. Settling into a new country was difficult, and Black people had to stick together and support one...
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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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.