Asian Britain: A Photographic History - in pictures

Indian officers riding in procession through London to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 Photograph: London Stereoscopic Company/Getty Images

Two Indian ayahs or nannies from Madras (now Chennai) photographed in Glasgow in 1925 Photograph: Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images

Sir Shri Umaid Singhji, the maharajah of Jodphur, with his sons at Croydon aerodrome in 1932 Photograph: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

Two women in saris at a bus stop in London, 1935 Photograph: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images

Indian soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk entertain onlookers while helping clear bomb damage in London in 1940 Photograph: A. R. Tanner/Getty Images

A migrant from Pakistan at a textile factory in Bradford in 1950 Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images

A group of women from Calcutta, many of whom came to work as nurses in the newly created NHS, 1957 Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

A group of newly arrived migrants at London Airport (now Heathrow) in 1968 Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

A Sikh worker on the assembly line at Ford's Dagenham plant in 1970 Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

Asian teenagers outside a cinema in Southall, London, in 1980 Photograph: Evening Standard/Getty Images

Margaret Thatcher and supporters campaigning for her re-election in Finchley, north London, in 1983 Photograph: John Downing/Getty Images

Narinder "Peter" Singh, the world's only Sikh Elvis impersonator, at home in Swansea, where he ran an Indian restaurant called Gracelands, 1989 Photograph: Terry Smith/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image