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   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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   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...

3. thebookerprizes.com › the-booker-library › featuresAlan Hollinghurst interview: ‘Winning changed my life and my ...

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   Jun 3, 2024 · These books set me going on a lifetime of reading poetry, which I stopped producing myself as soon as I got drawn into writing novels. But I think I took from this early immersion in poets of all kinds an interest in sound and rhythm and structure that has stood me in good stead.

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   • "I live in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are, my mother has trouble remembering my name." — William.
   • "The thing is, with you I'm in real danger. It seems like a perfect situation, apart from that foul temper of yours, but my relatively inexperienced heart would I fear not recover if I was, once again, cast aside as I would absolutely expect to be.
   • "After all, I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." — Anna.
   • Anna: "Men went to bed with the dream, they didn't like it when they'd wake up with the reality. Do you feel that way? " William: "You are lovelier this morningthan you have ever been."

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   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.

   • Author: Camilla Schofield, Ben Jones

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   Enduring agonising loneliness, and surviving on a starvation diet of bread, tobacco and green tea in a Notting Hill lodging-house, he experienced much bitterness over what he perceived as his failure to translate his golden visions of Monmouthshire into books.

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   How was Notting Hill influenced by modern culture?

   • 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.

   A brief history of Notting Hill - The History Press

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   What are some famous quotes from the Notting Hill?

   • In honor of the classic film here are some of the most endearing quotes from the Notting Hill. 1. "I live in Notting Hill. You live in Beverly Hills. Everyone in the world knows who you are, my mother has trouble remembering my name." — William 2. "The thing is, with you I'm in real danger.

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   Who wrote 'Notting Hill today'?

   • 159 Patricia Philo, “Notting Hill Today,” Kensington Post, 24 November 1967, as cited in Green, Digging at Roots, 202–3. 160 O'Malley, Politics of Community Action, 49. 161 Green, Digging at Roots, 200.

   “Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”: Notting Hill and the

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   Why was Notting Hill a good place to live?

   • The area was close to central London and it was cheap so it suited the emerging alternative lifestyles of the time. The narrative of The Other Side ends here but the character of Notting Hill was starting to change again although the old divisions between the top of the hill and the other side continue to this day.

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   Was Notting Hill a 'community'?

   • This article treats Notting Hill after 1958 as an important locale of new progressive thinking and action. 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.

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   Why was Notting Hill a slum?

   • 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. More houses were demolished for the construction of the Westway elevated motorway, which blighted much of the area. As a result, working class communities were broken up.

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   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.