Reading around national decline, cultural rot, lost traditions and the British Old New Left, unpicking Whig history. Bluesky: https://xitter.gq/t.co/CSjkRpRFn6
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ALT Quote card: "By 1911, Fryer informs that the overseas-born population of Cardiff was second only to London, with around 700 of these being African or Caribbean." (Jenna R. Twyford-Jones, Cardiff's 'Tiger Bay': The Formation of a 'Sailortown' c.1880-1939)
ALT Quote card. Left: the Palace of Westminster seen across the Thames, in muted sepia. Right, in serif type on a dark background: "…marked the formal abandonment of a tradition encompassing English and British history and identity, the tradition of the land". Credit: Ann Dummett and Andrew Nicol, on the British Nationality Act 1981, quoted in Citizenship and Immigration in Post-war Britain, Randall Hansen (2000), p. 215. Photo: Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0. @ThreeJacques.
ALT Quote card: "Neither did the majority of Jews share a conception of themselves as permanent members of the working class." (ed. Sandra Wallman, Ethnicity at Work)
ALT Quote card: "But each year more people leave Britain to settle elsewhere than ever come to live here. In the three years 1972-74 we lost 147,000 people over and above the number taken in." (Labour Party, Labour Against Racism)
ALT Quote card: "Ward ‘would drive around London alone late a night looking at the girls’ and even talking to them. Sometimes, claimed Keeler, ‘he brought a prostitute back with him.’" (Tony Moore, Policing Notting Hill: 50 Years of Turbulence)
ALT Quote card: "Once, I walked the whole length of a street looking for a room, and everyone told me that he or she had no prejudice against coloured people. It was the neighbour who was stupid." (A.G. Bennett, Beyond the Mother Country: West Indians and the Notting Hill White Riots)
