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Huguenot refugees: The revocation of the Edict of Nantes Thomas Papillon’s Advertisement (reproduced above) and King William the III's Declaration (as seen below) relate to th ...
Invasion, conquest and migration Migration to Britain in the first century was part of the expansion of the Roman Empire and the outcome of colonial and imperial processes. The Roman Empi ...
The Ipswich Man The ‘Ipswich Man’ is the name given to the skeleton of a man found in Ipswich, Suffolk and made the subject of a BBC documentary called History Cold Case. This ...
English settlement of Jamestown, Virginia Jamestown, England’s first permanent settlement in the Americas, was founded by the Charter of the Virginia Company of London, a firm. Ther ...
Lithuanians in Scotland One in four Lithuanians – about 650,000 individuals – emigrated from their homeland between 1870 and the First World War. Most went to the United State ...
Indian students in Britain From the middle of the nineteenth century, the small resident Asian population in Britain was augmented by an increasing number of Indian students at Brit ...
Rich migrants, poor migrants: the Scottish in England The above source, recording the interrogation of a suspected vagrant in North Riding, Yorkshire, relates to the migration into Englan ...
A London slum in Kensington Owned by the respectable and wealthy local Bird family, Jennings' Buildings consisted of 81 two-story wooden tenements grouped around 5 narrow courts. The Bui ...
Worship in Britain: The East London Mosque The East London Mosque was established in premises in Commercial Road (London Borough of Tower Hamlets) in August 1941 – right i ...
Scandinavians in England From the late eighth century, Scandinavian raids on Scotland, Ireland, and England began to be recorded. At first these raids were very few, but from the 830s the ...
Jewish people in early Britain: location, language, culture Jews arrived in Britain with the Norman regime, following the Norman Conquest of 1066. It seems that during the reign of ...
British India and South Asian migration South Asians have been migrating to Britain for four centuries. This is due to a number of factors. They include push and pull elements such ...
The rise of Adolf Hitler and European Jewish persecution The National Socialist German Workers’ Party (otherwise known as the Nazi Party) came into power in Germany in 1933 af ...
Protestant refugees from Europe: Huguenots and Palatines The mass exodus of French Protestant refugees (also known as 'Huguenots') who fled from religious persecution in France afte ...
The return of Jewish people to Britain Jewish people had been banned from British soil since their expulsion in 1290 up until their formal readmission under Oliver Cromwell in the 1 ...
Italians as economic migrants From the mid-1800s Italian migrants came to Britain from poor mountainous areas including around Parma and Lucca and, by the century's end, from more souther ...
‘Savage state-sanctioned anti-Jewish riots aka pogroms, along with poverty made worse by widespread economic and political discrimination, caused over 2.5 million of the 6 million Je ...
Hector Nunes' petition The main source above gives examples of two related migrant groups: Portuguese conversos or Marranos (Jews, ostensibly converted to Christianity) and Africans. ...
Protecting trade routes: Britain in Somaliland The opening of the Suez Canal in 1870 was a turning point in the history of the British Empire. In order to reach prized trading posts in In ...
By birth a Cappadocian From Armenia to Nubia to Rome, early Christians honored Saint George. The legend of Saint George emerged out of early Christian tales of persecution and martyrdom a ...
Viking raids: King Sweyn and Prince Knut Knut the Great (Knútr inn ríki in Old Norse) was a Danish prince, the son of Sweyn Forkbeard (Sveinn Tjúguskegg in Old Norse) ...
Christianity in Pre-Roman Britain Before the Romans arrived, Britain was a pre-Christian society. The people who lived in Britain at the time are known as ‘Britons’ and their ...
Northern Britain in the seventh century In the early middle ages, the area of northern Britain that is now Scotland was inhabited by peoples of a number of different backgrounds – G ...
Rapid growth: 1880s to the First World War From the 1880s, the Italian presence in Britain grew rapidly. Between 1891 and 1901 the number of Italian-born people more than doubled, rising ...
