Multiculturalism, race and immigration

I'm going to start today by linking in a whole bunch of YouTube clips connected to the themes of today's lesson.

First, here are links to all 23 (!!) parts of a really great documentary about Afro-Caribbean immigration into the UK called THJE WINDRUSH YEARS (1948-1998). This was made in 1998 to celebrate fifty years of Black Britain.















































That should keep you busy for a while!!!

Next up, some clips about the 1958 Notting Hill race riots, mixing TV footage from the era and contemporary perspectives:







Next up, a four-part documentary about the people who started the Notting Hill Carnival.









Next up, here's the full version of Enoch Powell's 1968 Rivers of Blood speech.



Let's move on to the stroy of the Brixton riots.
This is a six-part documentary.













Here's some background to The Satanic Verses controversy.
This is another documentary.




You can read a Wikipedia article about the death of Stephen Lawrence here.

There's a lot of articles connected to similar themes, all from the Guardian here.

I was going to post some stuff on 7/7 and the EDL, but got depressed looking for it. Look on YouTube for 7/7 information and all you find is conspiracy theory rantings and mad people saying it must have been an inside job; look for the English Defence League and you just find all their scary promotional stuff and life's too short to waste time on that kind of nonsense.

Finally, then, here's the shocking and very depressing footage of Professor David Starkey on Newsnight the other day - in full.