Talk:Historical immigration to Great Britain

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[edit] Page split

See Talk:immigration to the United Kingdom (1922-present day)

Much of this content has been moved from the page Immigration to the United Kingdom which was split into pre and post 1922 sections. It may be helpful to look at the talk page on that page. Andeggs 22:14, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] liverpool Chinatown

I remember reading that the UK has the oldest Chinese community in Europe, dating back from the 1750s. Anyone know anything about that? Matchrthom 19:56, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] North east Ireland

The first sentence is:

Immigration to the United Kingdom concerns the inward movement of people, cultural and ethnic groups into the nation state entity that is today known as the United Kingdom.

and in the article the section "Scots" says:

During the 5th century, the Dál Riatan Scots started raiding north-western Britain from their base in north-east Ireland. After the Roman withdrawal, this developed from piracy to full-scale invasion, and,within a hundred years, they had established a kingdom in Argyll.

But north east Ireland is in the UK so they were not immigrating from outside the UK. --Philip Baird Shearer 16:56, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move page

"This article deals with immigration to the political entity now known as the United Kingdom until its full creation in 1922." This is not a good title. The term "United Kingdom" describes several iterations of the same state (see United Kingdom (disambiguation)). One can argue that the 1801 version was "its full creation".

I think that this article should be renamed in line with Prehistoric settlement of Great Britain and Ireland, either as historical immigration to Great Britain and Ireland or historical immigration to Great Britain and then either "main article" a section on post 1922 or define it in the introduction as covering only up to 1922. One could drop the word historical from the title if there was to be a section on prehistoric settlement with a "main article" to Prehistoric settlement of Great Britain and Ireland --Philip Baird Shearer 08:48, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

It is now over a month since I posted the above, and due to the resounding silence, I will presume that no one else has an opinion on the issue, so I am moving the article to historical immigration to Great Britain. --Philip Baird Shearer 08:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)