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The Empire Strikes Back. British Cuisine – 1960s Celebrating diversity today Rice Tea Sushi chips Pasta apples. Empire and Britishness. 8% of British population either immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from former colonial territories in Caribbean or South Asia
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The Empire Strikes Back • British Cuisine – 1960s Celebrating diversity today • Rice • Tea • Sushi • chips • Pasta • apples
Empire and Britishness • 8% of British population either immigrants or the descendants of immigrants from former colonial territories in Caribbean or South Asia • but huge regional differences - in inner London 25% • no such thing as ‘white’ • dates to 1950s in particular
Commonwealth Immigration ‘Empire Windrush’, June 1948 35 000 1961 115 000
Commonwealth Immigration Act (1962) Enoch Powell • ‘rivers of blood’ speech, April 1968 • began the National Front, 1966 • repatriate all immigrants • ‘milder’ normalized xenophobia
Britain isn’t this and it never really was
The face of post-colonial Britain