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NewVIc World in London lecture London: a diverse global city shaped by immigration Eddie Playfair. A very brief introduction to: Who came? Why? When? Where? Everything we say will be a generalisation. UK residents born abroad. The London boroughs. Hughenots in London. Little Italy. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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NewVIc World in London lecture
London: a diverse global city shaped by immigration
Eddie Playfair
A very brief introduction to:
Who came?
Why?
When?
Where?
Everything we say will be a generalisation
UK residents born abroad
The London boroughs
Hughenots in London
Little Italy
Irish “navvies”
London’s docklands
The London docks
Lascars
When Chinatown was in Limehouse
The Silvertown refinery
Walter Tull 1888-1918
The Jewish East End
Cable street 1936
Empire Windrush passengers 1948
Notting Hill 1958
Claudia Jones
1972: Ugandan Asians arrive in Britain
1743: La neuve eglise1819: Methodist chapel1891: Machzikei Hadass1976: ব্রি�ক লে�ন জামে� �সব্রিজাদ
1978
1978 Murder of Altab Ali
Rock against Racism 1978
Banglatown today
1993…..to 2012
Racism old and new…
“We are a nation of refugees” The Times, 1858
“London is the most and most successfully multicultural city in Europe…Diasporas have sustained us.” China Mieville, 2012
Why is all this important?
London’s global success; economic, cultural and social, is partly due to being a global city which reflects the world and is open to the world. Londoners speak the world’s languages, understand the world’s cultures and are facing the world’s issues: inequalities, tensions and conflicts.
We need to know more about our past and where we’ve come from.We need to know about our various and multiple identities.
