Category: United Kingdom

  • Survey reveals half of children of migrants families feel ‘white British’ Daily Mail 2012-03-08 Steve Doughty More than half the children of immigrant families now count themselves as both white and British, a survey revealed yesterday. The findings show that more than one in six of those people who call themselves white British were in…

  • True Londoners Are Extinct The New York Times 2012-03-01 Craig Taylor Photo by Mark Neville. Children come to the Somerford Grove Adventure Playground in Tottenham, shown here, after school or on weekends to learn life skills like cooking. “There’s a real sense of adulthood to what the children are doing there,” Neville said. Later this…

  • While the British government was somewhat pressured by white seamen’s organisations to protect jobs for whites, the primary cause of the anxieties underlying the Coloured Alien Seamen Order moved far beyond employment issues in the shipping industry. As has been well-documented by several scholars, the effort to limit immigration of African seamen to Britain was…

  • Election of the first black mayor Daily Mail 1913-11-10 Source: mytimemachine.co.uk Coloured Mayor—Majority of One at Battersea—Dramatic Speech For the first time in the history of this country a man of colour has been elected mayor of a borough. The honour has fallen to Mr. John Richard Archer, a photographer, of Battersea Park-Road, who by…

  • Guidance document 10: Dual Heritage pupils Ethnic Minority Services Nottingham City Council Children Services November 2005 20 pages Jane Daffé, Senior EMA Consultant Nottingham City, LA Contents Introduction Terminology Statistics Identity Dual Heritage Voice Educational research Curriculum, resources, role models Conclusion Appendix Recommended Resources Reflecting the Lives of Dual Heritage Children and Families Poem: Blended…

  • Portrait of Crimean War Nurse Mary Seacole Acquired by National Portrait Gallery artdaily.org 2012-02-12 Mary Seacole by Albert Charles Challen, 1869. ©National Portrait Gallery, London. LONDON.- The only known painting of Mary Seacole, the black Victorian nurse regarded as one of the most significant figures to emerge from the Crimean War, is to remain at…

  • Spoilt for choice? New Law Journal: Leading on debate, litigation & dispute resolution Vol 162, Issue 7498 2012-01-26 Adrian Jack, Barrister & Rechtsanwalt Enterprise Chambers Encouraging greater judicial diversity is no easy task, says Adrian Jack The government is consulting on creating greater diversity in the judiciary. Where candidates for judicial appointment are of similar…

  • To tackle racism, we must tackle ignorance The Times of London 2012-02-14 John Barnes It’s not about football, it’s about destroying modern myths of colour, race and superiority   In 1987 a black friend of mine went into a shop to buy a coat. He asked the assistant if they had it in black and…

  • …And… a conjunction of history and imagination Lulu 2010-02-06 206 pages 4.3 wide × 6.9 tall Paperback ISBN: 5800039355462 Isabel Adonis And… is a psychological memoir of the lives of my mother and father, Catherine Alice and Denis Williams. Inspired in part by Jamaica Kinkaid’s Mr Potter, the writing explores the nature of identity, place,…

  • Is racial mismatch a problem for young ‘mixed race’ people in Britain? The findings of qualitative research Ethnicities Volume 12, Number 6 (December 2012) pages 730-753 DOI: 10.1177/1468796811434912 Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent, UK Peter Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK Recent…