Pre-19th century communities; immigration into Britain, 1815-1945 - economic push factors, political push factors, enabling factors, economic pull factors, political pull factors; the structure of minority groupings - the size of communities, geographical distribution, age, gender and family structure, employment and class structure; Ethnicity - residence and marriage patterns, ethnic organisations, religion and philanthropy, cultural organisations, political and trade union activity; racism - official racism, unofficial racism.