Chapter 5: Notting Hill 1948-1970 Flashcards
Teddy Boys
A youth movement of the 1960’s. Teddy Boys dressed in clothes inspired by Edwardian fashion and loved rock and roll music. Some Teddy Boys were also violent and involved in racist violence.
Xenophobia
Fear of something/someone who is foreign.
Rationing
A government policy that says that people can only buy a fixed amount of things, e.g. food or household goods, every week, to make sure there is enough of everyone.
Statutory tenacy
A lease on a rental property given to a tenant, which a landlord cannot cancel unless certain legal requirements (such as non-payment of rent) are met. It also controls how much the landlord can charge in rent.
Pirate station
A radio station that broadcasts without a licence.
Election deposit
Any candidate standing in a British Parliamentary election must pay a fee to do so. This fee is repaid to the candidate after the election, unless they have received a set percentage of the votes (in 1959, this was 12.5% (6433) of the 51, 469 registered voters)
Deported
Forced by the government to leave a country you are visiting or living in where you re not a citizen. (Note: this is different from the Windrush scandal)
Black Panther Party
A political party founded in America by black college students Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966. It focused both on social campaigns to support the community and on protecting the black community from police brutality.
Sus Law
Short for suspicious law, it gave police officers the power to stop, search and arrest people on the suspicion that they might commit a crime in the future. It was widely abused, with many black people arrested for standing on a corner or walking to the shops. Although the law was repealed in the 1980s, today many black people still complain about being stopped and searched by police without cause.
