Search results
It seeks to consider the political work that the idea of “community” did in Notting Hill, allowing us consider how the politics of antiracism relates in complex ways to the reformulation of progressive politics in postwar Britain.
- Camilla Schofield, Ben Jones
- 2019
What national records, including opinion polls and census reports, can tell about Notting Hill. Sources have different strengths and weaknesses. Common misconception
- Abstract
- Overcrowding and ‘Friction’
- Mapping The Riots
- Interracial Couples and ‘Defensive Proletarianism’
- ‘Your Streets’: Mosley on The Campaign Trail
- Conclusion
Over five nights at the end of summer 1958, a decade after the beginning of large-scale migration from the Caribbean to Britain, young white men attacked black residents and attempted to drive them off the streets of West London. The riots took place in Ladbroke Grove and Notting Dale as well as Notting Hill proper, but the disturbances were quickl...
Notting Hill’s supply of poor-quality privately owned flats made it a reception area for people from the Caribbean who were shut out of better private rental accommodation and council housing.21 In the 1950s hardly any people born in the Caribbean lived in council housing, though some from South Asia did.22 With long waiting lists for council housi...
The Notting Hill riots began on the Saturday of the August bank holiday weekend of 1958. They followed weeks of lesser disturbances in the area. On the lookout for other places where racist violence might break out after the rioting in St Ann’s in Nottingham, the Manchester Guardian reported: ‘the Notting Hill Gate-Shepherd’s Bush area … has been u...
Interracial couples were conspicuous. Majbritt Morrison, a white woman from Sweden with a Jamaican-born husband, was brought to the attention of a hostile crowd at the outset of the riots by someone who knew about the relationship. On the first night of the riots, the Saturday, a man in the crowd recognized her and shouted: ‘There she goes, a black...
Figures across the political spectrum recognized that community was one of the things at stake in the Notting Hill riots. Camilla Schofield and Ben Jones have shown how black, socialist, and Christian activists who set to work in Notting Hill after the riots framed the riots as ‘an outgrowth of a failing community’. The idea of a ‘fragmenting commu...
The significance of the 1959 contest lies less in the number of votes Mosley received than in the way his campaign identified messages that would become fixtures of racist rhetoric. An out-of-touch establishment, white people becoming estranged from their old haunts, streets being taken over by people of colour: these were all themes of Peter Griff...
Aug 25, 2011 · Mark Olden’s book, Murder in Notting Hill, is a painstaking investigation into the unsolved murder of Kelso Cochrane, who was stabbed to death by a gang of white youths on Sunday 17 May 1959 in Notting Hill, west London. The killing is one of the first recorded racially motivated murders in the UK.
After a series of racially motivated attacks on the West Indian residents of West London’s Notting Hill area in August 1958, Trinidadian human rights activist Claudia Jones decided to create a...
Oct 22, 2018 · However, common sense prevailed when he polled the fewest votes and lost his deposit and, to a large extent, those inter-racial tensions subsided. In common with many of Britain’s crumbling Victorian cities, the late fifties and early sixties saw the start of mass slum clearance in Notting Hill.
People also ask
Was Notting Hill a 'community'?
Why was Notting Hill a slum?
Why did Notting Hill Lose 'Your Streets'?
Why was Notting Hill a good place to live?
Can unemployment and housing crisis explain the Notting Hill riots?
How was Notting Hill influenced by modern culture?
On 9 August 1970, a group of Black Power activists led 150 people on a march against police harassment of the black community in Notting Hill, London. They called for the ‘end of the...
