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NewVIc World in London lecture London: a diverse global city shaped by immigration Eddie Playfair

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.

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NewVIc World in London lecture London: a diverse global city shaped by immigration Eddie Playfair

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  1. NewVIc World in London lecture London: a diverse global city shaped by immigration Eddie Playfair

  2. A very brief introduction to: Who came? Why? When? Where? Everything we say will be a generalisation

  3. UK residents born abroad

  4. The London boroughs

  5. Hughenots in London

  6. Little Italy

  7. Irish “navvies”

  8. London’s docklands

  9. The London docks

  10. Lascars

  11. When Chinatown was in Limehouse

  12. The Silvertown refinery

  13. Walter Tull 1888-1918

  14. The Jewish East End

  15. Cable street 1936

  16. Empire Windrush passengers 1948

  17. Notting Hill 1958

  18. Claudia Jones

  19. 1972: Ugandan Asians arrive in Britain

  20. 1743: La neuve eglise 1819: Methodist chapel 1891: Machzikei Hadass 1976: ব্রিক লেন জামে মসজিদ

  21. 1978 Murder of Altab Ali 1978

  22. Rock against Racism 1978

  23. Banglatown today

  24. 1993…..to 2012

  25. Racism old and new…

  26. “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

  27. 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.

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