East Midlands Oral History Archive

Problems people found when they came to Britain

11 Loneliness

A woman originally from Latvia talks about the problems Latvian men had when they arrived in the UK after the Second World War.

Oh, she's writing

An Antiguan woman describes an example of prejudice she experienced working in a factory in the 1950s. Her colleagues were surprised to find that she was able to read and write.

13 England knew nothing about you

A woman from the Caribbean explains how she had never experienced racism and was not prepared to deal with it when she arrived in Britain in the 1960s.

14 We were the ones who paved the way

A woman from the Caribbean explains why she believes that Caribbean women were trailblazers who laid the foundations for the current generation.

15 Everything is teacher to you

A Somali man talks about the problems of learning a second language and how slang can be difficult to understand, even if you have a good grasp of a second language
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