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Apr 15, 2022 · This article uses arrest data and contemporary social research to show that while unemployment and the housing crisis were undoubtedly acute in West London, these issues alone cannot explain the Notting Hill riots. The article maps the incidence of violence and the locations of the rioters’ homes.
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
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.
May 12, 2022 · In late August and early September 1958, the London area of Notting Hill was the scene of racially motivated riots, in which white, working-class, ‘Teddy Boys,’ and others, displayed hostility and violence to the Black community in the area.
Oct 22, 2018 · Taken together, these three events as much as anything else, fairly accurately represent the social, racial and economic diversity of the area that has existed almost since the urban landscape of today was formed from farmland in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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.
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The Notting Hill Riots of 1958 were a watershed moment that exposed the racial and socio-economic fractures within British society. The unrest served as a wake-up call, leading to significant legislative reforms and a shift in societal attitudes towards race and immigration.
