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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 ...
The Egyptians Act 1530 was a response to the arrival of Romani Gypsies, known as ‘Egyptians’ at the time, in Britain in the sixteenth century. The first definite record of thes ...
Migration to Britain in the late Middle Ages The late Middle Ages was a period of what we could call 'quiet' migration. There were no-large scale migrations in or out of England, such as ...
Silk designers of Spitalfields Huguenot refugees sat at the centre of the London silk industry. Most of the Huguenots in Britain involved in the silk trades had been merch ...
Germans in Britain before World War I During the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tens of thousands of Germans made their way to Britain. The factors that pushed the ...
The early British During the fifth century AD Britain ceased to be part of the Roman Empire and became a group of small warring territories, from which eventually developed the ...
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 ...
Invasion of Poland and population displacement At the end of World War I, the 1919 Treaty of Versailles had taken land from Germany to give to Poland in a new settlement for Polish ...
Joining the European Union Polish migration has been one of the largest movements in Britain's post-war migration history. Since Poland joined the European Union in 2004, and thus P ...
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 ...
Irish migration to England, Scotland and Wales Many of the concerns we hear voiced about immigration today were also aired against Irish immigrants in early industrial Britain. Fears of s ...
The Irish in Britain Irish migration to Britain has a long history. From the nineteenth century, the Irish came to the country in large numbers and were one of the two most numerous group ...
Recruiting for Birmingham Throughout the twentieth century, the Irish were Britain’s largest foreign-born population. When Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, many Irish-born r ...
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 ...
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 ...
Go home or face arrest The 2013 ‘Go Home’ van advertising campaign (pictured above) took place in a period of increasing political and public attention to ‘illegal ...
The First World War: Serbian children in flight The plight of the Serbian people was desperate following the military defeat of their country in the early stages of the First World ...
In the spring of 1517, London was shaken by a night of violent rioting that reached from Newgate Prison in the west to Blanchappleton near Aldgate in the east. Crowds in their hundreds att ...
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) ...
'Quiet' migration The late middle ages was a period of what we could call 'quiet' migration. There were no large-scale migrations as had been seen in Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman ...
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 ...
The Norman conquest and French immigration The story of French immigration into England as a result of the Norman conquest in 1066 is best told in two parts. First there was the military ...
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 ...
