2022/11/6 · The Irish community in Britain has been in long-term decline since a peak in 1961, when the number of people living in Britain but born in the Republic of Ireland reached 683,000.

2022/11/5 · Irish-born people in England and Wales However, last week brought confirmation that the Irish community, for so long Britain’s biggest source of immigration, is withering. Census figures showed ...

Irish immigration to Britain had been going on since the Middle Ages so there were already several Irish communities in some large towns including London, Bristol, Canterbury and Norwich, and in garrison towns such as York.

The Commission of Investigation into Irish Poverty and the Irish Poor Law Act 1838. George Cornewall Lewis’s survey of the Irish community, published in 1836, offered a detailed response to the dominant perceptions of the Irish in Britain. Lewis’s report presented the findings of his whistle-stop tour of the hotspots of Irish settlement.

2011/2/28 · For over 10,000 years people have been moving into - and out of - Britain, sometimes in substantial numbers, yet there has always been a basic continuity of population. Before Roman times ...

2019/7/18 · The indigenous British are believed to be descendants of the various ethnic groups that settled in the Great Britain before the 11th Century including the Romans, Norse, Anglo-Saxon, and Celts. The largest ethnic groups in the United Kingdom are looked at …

2019/2/22 · Information for UK and Irish citizens on their rights under the Common Travel Area arrangements (CTA). 4 October 2021 Updated information on use of ID cards to enter the UK if you're an EU, EEA or ...

2011/10/19 · David Cameron would have us look back to the days of the British empire with pride. But there is little in the brutal oppression and naked greed with which it was built that deserves

2011/2/17 · It seems doubtful that the British governing classes learned much from their Irish experience in the late 1840s. In British India, during the years 1876-79, famine claimed the lives of between six ...

10 amusing facts about British history. 1. In 18th-century Britain, men and women were forbidden to sunbathe on the same beach. 2. The city where the first fire department appeared was Edinburgh. 3. The first programmer in the world was an Englishwoman — Ada Lovelace. 4. The first subway appeared in London, Britain.