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The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull (2017)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. (2017). The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull. In D. J. Starkey, D. Atkinson, B. McDonagh, S. McKeon, & E. Salter (Eds.), Hull: Culture, History, Place (145-177). Liverpool University Press

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When the results of the 2011 UK Census were made public in 2013 the BBC’s Six O’Clock News ran a live television broadcast from the city to herald a remarkable transformation – Hull was now home to a migrant population of 12,000 Eur... Read More about The making of a mosaic: Migration and the port-city of Kingston upon Hull.

Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain’s Interests in the Late-Victorian Period (2009)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. J. (2009). Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain’s Interests in the Late-Victorian Period. In E. Bar-Yosef, & N. Valman (Eds.), 'The Jew’ in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa (80-97). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594371_5

At the end of the nineteenth century, Britain governed one-quarter of the globe; her merchant and naval fleets ruled the waves. Yet despite being the most powerful industrial nation on earth, Britain panicked in the last decades of the Victorian era,... Read More about Commerce, State, and Anti-Alienism: Balancing Britain’s Interests in the Late-Victorian Period.

The Role of Foreign-born Agents in the Development of Mass Migrant Travel through Britain, 1851-1924 (2007)
Book Chapter
Evans, N. J. (2007). The Role of Foreign-born Agents in the Development of Mass Migrant Travel through Britain, 1851-1924. In T. Feys, L. R. Fischer, S. Hoste, & S. Vanfraechem (Eds.), Maritime Transport and Migration: The Connections between Maritime and Migration Networks (49–62). Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9780973893434.003.0004

This chapter examines how Britain profited from the foreign component of the passenger trade through the employment of foreign-born agents in the development of British business ventures. It considers the role of commercial agents, translators, and l... Read More about The Role of Foreign-born Agents in the Development of Mass Migrant Travel through Britain, 1851-1924.

Latter-Day Saint Scandinavian migration through Hull, England, 1852-1894 (2002)
Journal Article
Woods, F. E., & Evans, N. (2002). Latter-Day Saint Scandinavian migration through Hull, England, 1852-1894. BYU Studies, 41(4), 75-102

Nearly one hundred thousand Latter-day Saints made the journey across the Atlantic during the nineteenth century. Both contemporary commentators and Mormon historians alike have described these ocean crossings extensively. Yet the journey from Liverp... Read More about Latter-Day Saint Scandinavian migration through Hull, England, 1852-1894.