riots that break out between groups that identify as different race (e.g. black and white people)

a system where people who are not considered white are denied access to the same services as white people

to return someone to the country they came from, this can be both voluntarily or involuntarily

Race relations in 20th century Britain

History

The Viking conquest

Case study: Viking York

The Norman Conquest

Jewish migration in medieval England

Merchants and craftspeople in medieval England

Migration in medieval England

England in the early modern period

Case study: Flemish and Walloon migrants in Sandwich and Canterbury

African migrants in the early British Empire

Jewish migrants in the early modern period

Case study: Huguenots

Palatine refugees in the early 1700s

Migration to early modern England

The Industrial Revolution and internal migration

European migration in the 18th and 19th centuries

The British Empire and migration to Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries

Case study: Liverpool in the 19th century

Case study: Jewish migrants in the East End

Migration to 18th and 19th century Britain

The World Wars and colonial migrants

Post-war migration to Britain

The end of empire, the Commonwealth and changing patterns of migration

The EU and changing patterns of migration

Refugees and asylum seekers in modern Britain

Case studies: Bristol and Leicester

Migration to modern Britain

In this unit, pupils learn about either migrants in Britain or medicine in Britain over a period of roughly 1000 years. They examine one of these themes, analysing the impact it had in Medieval, Early Modern, Industrial and Modern Britain, with a particular focus on change and continuity.

Thematic studies

Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Historic or outdated representations of people that may portray inequality or injustice.

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce, poverty, deprivation.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Depiction of war, threats of war, death or the aftermath of war.

Depiction or discussion of violence or suffering

What did the increase of black and Asian migration to Britain after World War Two (WW2) lead to?

What is the term for denying access to services for people based on perceptions about their racial identity?

Which organisation criticised the 1965 Race Relations Act?

Support for anti-immigration campaigns was increased in the 1950s and 1960s through ...

In what areas did the 1968 Race Relations Act make racial discrimination illegal?

The first Race Relations Act was passed in the UK

Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech

The second Race Relations Act was passed in the UK

Put the following events in chronological order.

In what decade did World War Two (WW2) end?

What is the word for the process of freeing a nation from colonial rule?

What is the name for the organisation linking Britain and members of its former colonies?

Britain wanted to be part of a multicultural community.

Britain wanted to benefit from their experience and wisdom. 

Britain wanted to continue to benefit from trade with these countries.

Why did Britain encourage countries from its former empire to join the Commonwealth?

migrants with a job in Britain to come to

migrants with special skills in short supply

migrants who could only take up unskilled jobs

Match the categories given to migrant workers who wanted to come to the UK to their definitions.

It drastically increased migration from Commonwealth countries.

It drastically decreased migration from Commonwealth countries.

Migration from Commonwealth countries stayed the same. 

What was the result of the 1968 Commonwealth Immigrations Act?

Race relations in 20th century Britain

Lesson outcome

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