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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.
Give 2 features of Notting Hill which made migrants settle there. Paddington station is very close to notting hill. It was the first London station at which the trains carrying Caribbean migrants stopped. Caribbean officials waited there to welcome them and help them find accomodation.
In the linked historic environment, students learn about the locality of Notting Hill after the Second World War, showing how it became a centre for migration from the Caribbean, and about the influence of migrants in the development of the area,
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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.
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.
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I can describe the conditions in Notting Hill in the 1950s and explain the problems Caribbean migrants faced and initiatives introduced to support them.
