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Accounting for the hostel for 'coloured colonial seamen' in London's East End, 1942–1949

Milne, SA; (2020) Accounting for the hostel for 'coloured colonial seamen' in London's East End, 1942–1949. National Identities , 22 (4) pp. 395-421. 10.1080/14608944.2019.1600484. Green open access

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Abstract

In 1942, 17 Leman Street, Whitechapel, was acquired by the Colonial Office and converted into the only seamen's hostel for black men in London. For seven years, this small government-sponsored hostel provided thirteen beds for seamen from British colonies in the Caribbean and West Africa. Considering the hostel amid wider contestations of nationhood in London’s built environment, this paper argues that the experience of ‘colonial’ seamen and stowaways in the capital was characterised by spatial precariousness, a condition accentuated by the unwillingness of authorities to respond to the difficult realities of the colour bar and citizenship in post-war urban space.

Type: Article
Title: Accounting for the hostel for 'coloured colonial seamen' in London's East End, 1942–1949
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1600484
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2019.1600484
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Colonial seamen, East London, hostels, post-war built environment, Colonial Office
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10062039
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