Mid Years Flashcards
Who were the first 7 Earliest migrants to Britain
Celts
Romans
Angles
Saxons
Jutes
Vikings
Normans
When did the Romans arrive in Britain and how long did they stay for
43AD - They stayed for 400 years
When did the Anglo-Saxons arrive in Britain
450AD - After Roman occupation
When did the Normans arrive in Britain
1066
Who were the Huegenots and when did they migrate to Britain?
They were French Protestants that came to Britain - They came in-between the 1560s and 1590s
Why did the Hugenots Migrate to Britain
They were being persecuted for their relgion by Catholic leaders and followers. Many were killed
What did the Huegenots Bring to Britain
They were highly skilled craftsmen and took up jobs like weavers, merchants and joiners. And they joined indrustries that were responible for watch-making, gun-making and bookbinding
Why did many South Asian Migrants turn to Britain after WW2
Job opportunities - such as working for the NHS, for better lifestyles, to escape floods and famines, to avoid violence in their countries and because many countries in south asia were entitled to a british passport as they were part of the british empire
Where did South Asian migrants mainly live after migrating to Britain
North of England, and The Midlands
When Did the leader of Uganda - Idi Amin expell South Asians
1972
What were some negative things that South Asians faced in Britain
-They faced Discrimination
-A lot of South Asians lost thier jobs between 1970’s to 1980’s
-Laws were also passed to limit the amount of South Asian migration
-A young man named Altab Ali was murdered by British youths in a racially motivated killing
What percentage of South Asians were self-employed by 1991?
26% of South Asians were self-employed by 1991.
What types of groups developed to fight South Asian discrimination?
Anti-racist groups, such as the Asian Youth Movements, started to develop to fight discrimination.
What was the orginization that Pushed Racial hatred towards South Asians
The National Front
What is content when we desribe a source
Content is the information in a source.
What does the Provenance of a source include?
Who - who created it and does this make it more or less useful?
What – what type of source is it and does it make it more or less useful?
When – when was it produced? Does it make it more or less useful?
Where – where was it produced and does this make it more or less useful?
What should you look for to see if a source is useful
Is its content (message of the source) useful? Does it describe a positive or negative
experience for South Asian migrants?
Is its provenance (who wrote it and when it was written) useful? It was written by
Muhammed Huque who is a South Asian, why does this make it useful? It was also
written in 1978, why does this make it useful?
When did Hitler come to power
30 Jan 1933
What and when was the Nazis’ first discriminative action against the jews in power
The boycott of Jewish shops
1 April 1933
When was the first legal persecution against jews
April 1933
What did the legal persecution of Jews involve
Jews working for the government were dismissed
Jewish lawyers cannot have non-jewish clients
There was a MASSIVE decrease of places for Jews in schools
Jewish newspapers were shut down
When were the nuremberg laws
1935
When did Migration from Eastern Europe start
1500’s. This also happened a lot in the 1600’s and 1700’s.
But we want to focus on when it happened in the 1900’s.
What were some of the types of Jewish resistance
Ringelblum archive
Jewish children studying
Celebrating Hanukkah
Smuggling in food