Kieran Connell: Lessons to be learned from historical experiences of Irish

During the 1960s, the inner-city, working-class areas of Britain’s major cities were becoming increasingly multicultural

Irish Travellers would become the focus of a growing hysteria on the part of local British residents at this site at Balsall Heath, Birmingham, in 1968. File picture: Janet Mendelsohn, © Janet Mendelsohn/The Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham

• Multicultural Britain: A People’s History 
• Kieran Connell
• Hurst, hb £25.00