Here to Stay, Here to Fight: The Bengali Squatters Movement

Created
Wed, 20/12/2023 - 04:27
Updated
Wed, 20/12/2023 - 05:51

Faced with institutional racism in council housing and the existential threat of the National Front, hundreds of Bengali migrant families decided to squat, taking over entire streets and estates in 1970s London. Through oral history interviews and archival research, Dr Shabna Begum explores this little-known episode of East End history. She sits down with Tribune […]