In 1998 it was 50 years since the Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury with close to 500 West Indian immigrants on board. BBC has made a comprehensive web site about this important event in British Immigration history. In 2008 the Imperial War Museum initiated an exhibition called From War to Windrush to commemorate the 60th anniversary .
The new commonwealth immigrants have since their arrival made a significant impact on contemporary British literature as you can see on this BBC site: Black British Literature since Windrush.
The Institute
of Race Relations has a lot of interesting material.Try their quiz
about Black Britain! and their statistics
page.
National
Statistics Page where you can find out more.
The BBC social history section has a site where you can view British Population Animation
Race in Britain Down the Decades. The Observer's timeline of race relations from 1948 -2001
BBCs Mulicultural History Site
The Migration Histories Site has timelines for Irish, Jewish, Caribbean and South Asian Migration
The Commission for Racial Equality from Wikipedia
BritKid org has useful information about minority ethnic group numbers when you click on "serious issues".
What does it mean to be British? Read this
article from the Observer to see what people think.
BBC: "British
jobs for British workers" Gordon Brown's speech November 2007
Life
in the UK Test for immigrants
BBC in depth: Destination
UK, about asylum seekers in the UK
BBC talking point:
Migrant World
The Stephen
Lawrence case about the black teenager who was senselessly murdered
while waiting for a bus in 1993.
The
Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, special report on BBC February 25, 1999.
Prince Charles creates a
scholarship in the name of Stephen Lawrence, September 7, 2000.
Man
quizzed over Lawrence murder, December 2001.
Lawrence
Case corruption Probe July 26, 2006.
Stephen Lawrence Wikipedia
page
Benjamin Zephaniah's poem "What
Stephen Lawrence has taught us"
The Damilola
Taylor case from December 2000.
Damilola Taylor page from Wikipedia
Race
riots in Oldham in May 2001
Reactions
to
the race riot report
BBC
in depth: 2001 Summer violence
Terror in London. BBC In depth: London
Attacks July 2005
BBC November 2007: What can be done about
Gun
Crime
The
Black Presence in Britain
The
Notting Hill Carnival Gallery of Photographs
Notting
Hill Carnival 2008