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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.
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.
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.
There are a number of useful written sources for studying Notting Hill, but amongst the most useful are local newspapers that were published for the Caribbean community who lived there. The best example of this is the local source of the West Indian Gazette.
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 Nottingham...
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The murder in 1959 of Kelso Cochrane, a West Indian carpenter, also in the Notting Hill area, was the first clear example of a racially motivated killing in London.
