Welcoming the Strangers
Norwich prospered in the 16th century, thanks to an influx of immigrants, who arrived fleeing persecution.
‘More than a third of the city’s population now immigrants.’ Today that reads like a shock tabloid headline, but 450 years ago in Norwich, refugees were welcomed.
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