Before Notting Hill: Causeway Green and Britain’s anti-black hostel riots

The dominant narrative of post-war ‘race’ relations in Britain begins with the Empire Windrush bringing the earliest Caribbean workforce, and the anti-black riots of 1958 on the streets of Nottingham and Notting Hill signalling the first major instances of ‘race’-related public disorder[ref]This blog entry is based on an article by Searle (2013) ‘“Mixing of the … Continue reading Before Notting Hill: Causeway Green and Britain’s anti-black hostel riots