The 1922 election of Shapuri Saklatvala, Labour's first Asian MP

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The 1922 election of Shapuri Saklatvala, Labour's first Asian MP

Start: 2020-12-21 18:30:00 UTC Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London (GMT+00:00)

End: 2020-12-21 20:00:00 UTC Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London (GMT+00:00)

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This training session will consider the circumstances and influences that gave rise to the election of Britain’s first Asian Labour MP, Shapurji Saklatvala, in 1922. At a time of powerful narratives of racism and empire, how and why did the Battersea working class choose a communist immigrant to represent them in Parliament?

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