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|title=Newcomers' Lives: The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times

|author=Peter Unwin (editor)

|publisher=Bloomsbury

|date=December 2012

|summary=A selection of 55 obituaries fro 'The Times' of famous people born abroad who settled in Britain, made notable contributions in various walks of life, and died between 1861 and 2011.

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I think I was not the only person who at first glance found the title and sub-title slightly misleading. For me it conjured up visions of those who came across on the ‘Windrush’ in 1948 and the life they led on settling in Britain – and, perhaps, the lives of the more famous (assuming there were some) in obituary form.