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David Glover

David Glover is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton. His book: Literature, Immigration, and Diaspora in Fin-de-Siècle England explores the roots of the first modern immigration law in Britain​

Poor Jewish children playing in London’s East End, 1900
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This is the truth about the birth of immigration laws in the UK

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