What to expect First launched as an offshoot of the Trinidad Carnival, the Notting Hill Carnival has stayed true to its Caribbean origin, despite expanding massively since the first one over 50 ...

What started off as costumes that were a riposte to racist government policies and to highlight the struggles of the West Indian community have become diluted over the years at Notting Hill ...

What is Notting Hill Carnival? Notting Hill Carnival is a huge, free street celebration centred around the Caribbean community. It's Europe's biggest street festival, and the world's second ...

In 1783 when planters in the formerly French colonies of Martinique, Grenada, and Dominica responded to an edict by the Spanish king, they moved themselves and their slaves to Trinidad, bringing ...

Notting Hill Carnival is an unabashed celebration of everything it means to be black and British – and in divided times, it can feel like a life raft, writes Meena Alexander. I was six months ...

The Notting Hill Carnival parade is one of the Summer Bank Holiday’s crowning jewels. Every year on the August Bank Holiday Monday, locals and tourists take to the streets of west London to ...