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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.
Key learning points. Poverty was a problem across London after the end of the Second World War. Finding places to work and to live was challenging for Caribbean migrants, with few landlords willing to rent to them. As a result of a lack of available housing, overcrowding became a huge problem for Caribbean migrants.
Dec 1, 2017 · Word on the street 03 - Notting Hill. This is the 3rd episode of Word on the street by BBC Learning English. Stephen and Ashlie visit Notting Hill in London, to take part in the carnival. The Notting Hill Carnival is a multicultural festival celebrated over two days in August.
What we now understand as the 1958 Notting Hill riots began on Bramley Road outside the Latimer Road Tube Station on the evening of Friday 29 August when a Swedish woman, Majbritt Morrison, married to a Trinidadian, was attacked by a crowd after she tried to help a West Indian man being attacked.
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
Why is the Mangrove protest letter an important source for historians understanding the historical context of Notting Hill? It only focuses on the march and police harassment, not other experiences. Correct answer: It shows the tensions between the Caribbean community and the Met Police.
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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.
