migration

• Notting hill made a huge impact on music with jazz influences becoming popular e.g. Millie small
• The Edwardian period saw Notting Hill being gentrified
• gentrified means it has been it has been changed by the influence of the wealthy moving in
• peter Rachman was a powerful landlord that would sell bad housing expensively to Caribbean migrants
• the housing act of 1957 allowed landlords to charge higher rent in order to maintain the houses to a higher standard that would attract sellers
• 1950 there was a national housing shortage exploited by landlords
• in 1985 the Notting hill riots were held due to the marginalisation of the black community in Notting hill
• the aftermath of the Notting hill protests in 1958 led to the arrests of teddy boys, the carnivals and reflection upon the racism prevalent in Notting Hill
• Sir Mosley Oswald may have influenced tensions in Notting hill due to his parties preaching's about racism and antisemitism
• the black power movement in the US was pioneered by Malcom X
• Obi Egbuna established the Black Panther movement in 1968
• 800-1500 was the medieval period
• 1500-1700 was the early modern period
• 1700-1900 was the industrial age
• 1900 - today is Modern century
• in paper 1 you need to be able to say how things changed but also stayed the same
• york was used as an army base for the Vikings
• French and Italian merchants had good relations due to the finances they brought in (medieval period)
• during the medieval period Jewish people were tolerated as long as they were financially useful
• Flemish weavers were offered protection by king Henry in 1351
• Flemish weavers had a positive experience and they helped introduce new materials to the market (medieval period)
• French monks in the early modern period helped bring in taxes with their monasteries, the changes they brought was economic due to their powerful monasteries (medieval period)
• early modern period migrants consisted of the Huguenots, Africans, Romani gypses, and Jewish people
• Romani gypsies had a horrible experience - 1530 Egyptians act which ordered travellers to leave England and 1554 ordered execution for being a gypsy
• early modern period Africans were brought in due to the transatlantic slave trade some however like john Blake was a famous musician
• 1709 act protected the Huguenots
• Huguenots came to England due king Louie (king of France) allowing the Huguenots (protestants) to face aggressive treatment in france
• the reformation from martin Luther allowed the protestant Huguenots to migrate to England
• Huguenots contributed £100,000 to the bank of England
• 16 marker in migration paper- intro, 3 PEEL paragraphs focused on different factors but linked to the question, then conclude with final judgement
• 12 marker consists of 3 PEEL paragraphs each focusing on a different factor
• 6 factors: religion, attitudes in society, government, economics, education and culture
• WW2 caused Britain to become in debt, suffer worker losses as well as housing shortages
• due to the effects of WW2 the 1948 nationality act encouraged any commonwealth countries to come to Britain to work and live there
• the 1948 nationality at encouraged Caribbean migrants to migrate to the UK as wages in the Caribbean were low and in the UK they were higher
• many migrants were hired to work in transport and the NHS
• the 1965 rent act outlawed any unfair rent. this law directly overruled the previous 1957 rent law that allowed for landlords to charge unfair rent
• in Notting hill many black migrants formed their own churches to avoid the racism they would face in normal churches, would open their own businesses e.g. the mangrove restaurant and influenced music particularly jazz music however they often had to listen to their own music using pirated radios
• police in Notting hill did nothing to help black migrants against racist groups such was the WDL, the teddy boys and sir Oswald Mosley's facist group
• the teddy boys and Oswald Mosley's groups would often stir up racial relations in Notting Hill