Migrants to Britain

• Huguenots

  Protestant migrants from the Early Modern period (1500-1750)
• Poor Palatines


  Protestant migrants from the Early Modern period (1500-1750)
• When was the Status of Jewry?

  1275
• Reasons Irish migrated to Britain

  • Potato famine
  • Oppressive British landlords
  • Jobs in England
• The Irish had a positive impact on Britain
• Where Enemy Aliens were forced to live during WW1 & WW2


  • Interment camps
• Belgian migrants were given one way ticket home after WW1
• Polish migrants were allowed to stay in Britain after WW2
• Edward

  King who expelled Jews in 1290
• Where Huguenots fled to

  • Spitalfields (London)
• Most Huguenots became British citizens
• Kenya and Uganda expelled their Asian migrants who had been brought there by the British in the 1800s in 1968 and 1972
• The Commission for Racial Equality


  Organisation set up in 1976 to promote racial equality and prevent racial discrimination
• Medieval Kings encouraged Flemish Weavers to come to England so that they could sell finished cloth and not just raw wool, and make more money.
• The Steelyard


  Headquarters of the Hansa merchants in London
• John Blake

  Henry V's African trumpeter
• Oliver Cromwell invited Jews back to Britain in 1656
• Most of the Poor Palatines were headed to America
• East India Company

  Company that led to the growth of Indian migrants to Britain (mostly as servants) in the Early Modern period
• Italians

  WHICH MIGRANTS in the Industrial period who typically had jobs such as laying asphalt on roads, organ grinders and ice cream sellers