A history of Britain's mixed-race community and the many love stories that created it. In the first of this three-part series, George Alagiah tells the story of romance in World War I between female workers and foreign seamen, the street riots it led to, and how Britain just escaped laws preventing mixed marriage and the excesses of race science.
Originally broadcast: BBC2, 6th October 2011.
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A history of Britain's mixed-race community and the many love stories that created it. In the first of this three-part series, George Alagiah tells the story of romance in World War I between female workers and foreign seamen, the street riots it led to, and how Britain just escaped laws preventing mixed marriage and the excesses of race science.
A history of Britain's mixed-race community and the many love stories that created it. In the first of this three-part series, George Alagiah tells the story of romance in World War I between female workers and foreign seamen, the street riots it led to, and how Britain just escaped laws preventing mixed marriage and the excesses of race science.
