Aliens in London

In this episode – 7 December 1924 – we’re going to be mainly talking about immigration. The Times is publishing a series of articles on the extent and impact of immigration a hundred years ago. Who came? Why did they come? What did they do? What was the impact on the natives? It is a complicated picture – although – as we shall see – the figure for net migration is not. 

We are lucky in that from the perspective of today we can see if our forebears’ fears – and they were mostly fears – were justified or not. So, was the immigration policy of 1924 a success? Let’s see.