Notably Bob Carter, Clive Harris, Shirley Joshi, The 1951-55 Conservative Government and the Racialisation of Black Immigration (Warwick, 1987); E. Pilkington , Beyond the Mother Country: West Indians and the Notting Hill Gate riots ( London, 1988); and D.W. Dean, 'Conservative governments and the restriction of Commonwealth immigration in the 1950s: the problems of constraint', Historical Journal (Vol.35, no.1, 1992), pp171-94.
2.
Cabinet Committee on possible legislation to control immigration from the Commonwealth, 22 June 1956, PRO CAB 129/81 CP125.
3.
PRO LAB 8/1898, 8 July 1953.
4.
PRO CAB 134/1466, 22 July 1959.
5.
PRO CAB 128/35 Pt1, 16 February 1961.
6.
Eric Williams to H. Macmillan, PRO PREM 11/3238, 25 February 1961.
7.
Colonial Office Memorandum, PRO CAB 133/287, 6 March 1961.
8.
Sir G. Adams Special Protest, PRO PREM 11/3238, 24 November 1961.
9.
PRO CAB 128/35 Pt2, 6 November 1961.
10.
Sir Robert Renwick to Sir Toby Low, CC 04/8/138, 19 May 1961, Bodleian Library Oxford (Bod Lib) 19 May 1961 (I am grateful to Mr A. Cooke of the Conservative Political Centre for permission to quote).
11.
PRO CAB 134/1469, 29 September 1961.
12.
PRO CO 1028/50, undated 1959.
13.
I. Macleod to H. Macmillan, PRO PREM 11/3269, 17 November 1961.
14.
PRO CAB 134/1466, 19 June 1958.
15.
Hugh Chance (West Midlands Union) to Oliver Poole, Conservative Party Archives, Bod Lib CC 4/6/151, 2 December 1955.
16.
See I. Macleod to R. Butler: 'As far as haste is concerned, as you know we have been discussing this for many years and I can remember Salisbury holding strong views on it in Cabinet five years ago.' PRO PREM 11/3238, 15 November 1961.
