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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. Common misconception.
Today's lesson is part of the GCSE at Excel Historical Environment Unit on Notting Hill, and in today's lesson, we'll be focusing on the sources and the historical context of Notting Hill. By the end of the lesson, you will be able to explain the strengths and the limitations of some of the key sources for Notting Hill.
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.
Oct 22, 2018 · As a result, working class communities were broken up. People may have moved into much improved accommodation but they were often also more isolated. Almost simultaneously, Portobello market became the place to be seen by the trendsetters of the day. Notting Hill became entwined with modern culture.
- Focus
- Part 2: Source Exploration
- Plenary
- Part 3: Three Suggested Creative Activities
To encourage pupils to use original sources to find out about the significance of the Notting Hill Carnival and why it began. It is important that teachers ensure that pupils understand these terms: The Colour Bar, discrimination, legislation, immigrant, race-relations. The documents used in these lessons cover sensitive subjects and may include la...
Building on this approach, the pupils study threefurther sourceswhich encourage themto think about why the Notting Hill Carnival was started and why it is still such an important event today.They look at the passenger list from Empire Windrush to learn about Sam Beaver King, one of the early founders of the Notting Hill Carnivaland West Indian Gaze...
The plenary asks pupils to think about what they have learned from the sources about the Notting Hill Carnival and why it began. Use the background notes to help providemore context as appropriate. Teachers can alsoask pupils to look at the photographs used in the blog written by Principal Records Specialist on Diverse Histories, Vicky Iglikowski-B...
Design a poster to promote the Notting Hill Carnival today. Include information about its beginnings and why its such an important event for people.Work in pairs/small groups to research and design your own illustrated Fact File about Claudia Jones and her role in establishing the Notting Hill Carnival.Ask the class to create a mini-exhibition looking at the contribution made by migrants from the new Commonwealth countries to Britain (e.g. contributions to the NHS, British transport, art, music,...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.
Jun 28, 2018 · “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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