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From Gas Street to the Ganges

Simon Wilcox
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Exploring Birmingham's Links with the Commonwealth
Exploring Birmingham’s Links with the Commonwealth
Gas Street Basin
immigrants
immigration
india
indians
jamaica
jamaicans
multiculturalism
pakistan
pakistanis
post war
sri lanka
sub-continent
the commonwealth
west midlands

Product details

  • ISBN 9780750993340
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Jun 2021
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

If ever there was a regional UK city with the credentials to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham was always it. One in ten people in the city were born in an overseas Commonwealth country, and even more have family in member nations such as India, Jamaica and Pakistan. Many of these are descendants of the generation who arrived after the Second World War to find work during the city’s manufacturing boom years.

But, as Simon Wilcox discovers, the links go much further back than that. In fact, the connections started with the canal-building zeal of Birmingham’s industrial pioneers in the eighteenth century who built a canal network that spanned out from the Gas Street Basin. It was this network that opened up a new world of trade for the city – a world which revolved around metal, chocolate and weekly shipments of Ceylon tea.

Industry and craftmanship, music and food, nostalgia and the future: From Gas Street to the Ganges is an exploration and celebration of the city of a thousand trades, which became the city of Balti and Bhangra.
About Simon Wilcox
After growing up in Birmingham, SIMON WILCOX graduated from Liverpool University with a BA Honours in Modern History. Afterwards, he went into journalism, working for a national newspaper in Singapore, as a broadcast journalist for BBC local radio, and as a website editor for an NGO in London. More recently he has written a travel book, while working as an English language teacher. He lives in Warwickshire, near Birmingham.

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