History GCSE
Port cities and sailortowns
What Port cities and sailortowns means in History GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Port cities and sailortowns
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Places such as Liverpool, Cardiff, London and South Shields that kept growing as diverse communities in the early twentieth century, with migrants settling near docks and sailortowns.
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