Today’s Claire Chats was inspired by the recent video I did about the Evil May Day Riot which took place on 1st May 1517, in London, in the reign of King Henry VIII. The riot was an attack on the property of foreign traders in London by a mob of young apprentices and labourers, and it made me want to dig deeper into the topic of immigration during this period.
Further reading
- The Peasants' Revolt - https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/z2c2pv4/revision/1
- Attitudes towards Migrants in Medieval England - https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zpyhwxs/revision/3
- Movement and Settlement in the UK - https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/guides/zt8tyrd/revision/1
- A History of Immigration into the UK - http://www.localhistories.org/immigrants.html
- The History of Migration to London - https://www.kgs-tornesch.de/dokumente/upload/London%20Texte%20Un/12C/Migration%20-%2012C.pdf
- Medieval Immigrants - https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-immigrants-moving-to-england-in-the-middle-ages/
- England's First Refugees - https://www.historytoday.com/archive/englands-first-refugees
- London Aliens - https://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/ALIE1.htm
- Britain's First Black Community in Elizabethan London - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18903391
- The First Muslims in England - https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35843991
- Toni Mount's article "Black Africans in Medieval England" can be found at https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/black-africans-in-medieval-england-by-toni-mount/
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