Synopsis
The Irwins experience what accommodation was like for immigrant black families in Britain in the 1940s.
- Programme: Back in Time for Brixton
- Episode: 1
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2016
- History | Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day | Migration to & from Britain c.790 to the present day | 1900-c.2010
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