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Explore England's Past

Post World War II (1945-1999)

1945-1999

This Hindu Temple was established in 1979 in Redfield, East Bristol in a late Victorian gothic building whose original use had been a Methodist Cha

The St Paul's Carnival is a barometer of the social and ideological changes within Bristol's race relations.

Princess Campbell, the first Black nursing Sister in Bristol. 

Few migrant communities have had such an ambivalent and transformative relationship with Bristol as has the African-Caribbean community.

EPE Bristol met Khadim Hussain, a Tee-side based writer from Pakistan, when researching the Mangla Dam/Bristol link.

Q. What has the Mangla Dam in Pakistan have to do with the fact that many of Bristol's taxi drivers are 'Mirpuris' from Pakistan?

While the civil rights marches and bus boycotts took place in the Southern States of the USA here in Bristol in 1963 black workers had to fight the

Rais Hyder came to England in 1962 from Karachi in Pakistan.

The Malcom X Elders, inclusing Princess Campbell. 

By 2001, some sixty years of 'Asian migration' had had a discernible impact on Bristol's cityscape.

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