Layers of London: Spotlight on Notting Hill Riots. Layers of London is a free online resource that uses maps and user generated content to blend history, geography and digital technology. Explore this site's case study of the Notting Hill Riots where you can view photos and explore a detailed digital map reviewing the events that took place gropgraphically.
The National Archives, a a non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales,. holds over 1,000 years of iconic national documents. Click here to view primary source resources supporting research on The Notting Hill Riots of 1958.
Research on Windrush Arrivals: The term "Windrush Arrivals" refers to the post WWII migration of people from the Carribean to the UK
named after one of the first ships that brought migrants, the HMT Empire Windrush, which arrived in 1948. The Notting Hill riots were a series of racially motivated attacks that occurred in 1958 in London, sparked by tensions over immigration and housing and targeting the Caribbean community.
See: https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/ocean/history-empire-windrush
And via InterLibrary Loan see:
Procter, James, 'Local Colour', Scripting Empire: Broadcasting, the BBC, and the Black Atlantic (Oxford, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 30 Apr. 2024).
Policing response to the 2024 summer riots (House of Commons Library/UK Parliament
Between 30 July and 7 August 2024, an estimated 29 anti-immigration demonstrations and riots took place across 27 towns and cities in the UK. Many of these were violent, with participants attacking mosques and hotels housing asylum seekers. Known far-right activists promoted and attended the riots.
Riots after Southport attack more similar to those in 1958 than in 2011, study finds
Prime Minister's Office (2024) Our immediate action after Southport attacks, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/our-immediate-action-after-southport-attacks
British Newspaper Archives (open internet resource)
Access to articles about the events In late August and early September 1958, "in the London area of Notting Hill which was the scene of racially motivated riots, in which white, working-class, ‘Teddy Boys,’ and others, displayed hostility and violence to the Black community in the area".
Christopher Hilliard, Mapping the Notting Hill Riots: Racism and the Streets of Post-war Britain, History Workshop Journal, Volume 93, Issue 1, Spring 2022, Pages 47–68, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbac012
Cecily Jones. “Notting Hill Riots.” The Oxford Companion to Black British History. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Thomson, Andrew, and Madeleine Swain. Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom. World Wide Entertainment, 2007.
Huxtable, Isaac. “Charlie Phillips – A Grassroots Legacy.” British Journal of Photography, vol. 171, no. 7919, 2024, pp. 194–194
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