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British Multi-Racial Society

Presentation of the study; an evaluation of factors which contributed to or detracted from the formation of a successful multi-racial society in postwar Britain.

BACKGROUND: IMMIGRATION INTO BRITAIN

Invasions since ancient times left Britain with an ethnically and culturally mixed population. However, by early-modern times, Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and French populations had merged sufficiently to define a "native" population, as opposed to "foreign" immigrants.

Italians and other peoples from the Roman Empire must have entered Britain in Roman times, but these had lost all distinct identity during the Dark Ages. Immigration during medieval and early-modern times.

A significant African population existed in England in Elizabethan times. What happened to this population?

The British Empire established links with India and other parts of Asia; what level of immigration was there, and what was the fate of the immigrants?

British rule in the West Indies produced a racially-mixed population there. What was the fate of early West Indian immigrants?

C.Immigration in the Height of Empire, 1870-1914

The period from about 1870 to 1914 marked the apogee of the British Empire, and brought with it the beginning of the modern era of mass immigration.

2.Race and Racism, 1870-1914, Politics and Culture

1.Imperial Immigration Through World War II

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