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Perec "Peter" Rachman (16 August 1919 – 29 November 1962) was a Polish-born landlord who operated in Notting Hill, London, England in the 1950s and early 1960s.
28 de feb. de 2024 · One such landlord, Peter Rachman, became notorious in Notting Hill, letting property for extortionate rents and allowing them to drift into neglect.
The Story of Peter Rachman (1920 - 1962) by Gary Powell. Born in Poland, interned by the Germans in 1939 and the Russians in 1940, Peter Rachman had a distinguished Second World War military record fighting as part of the 2nd Polish Corps on behalf of the Allies in the Middle East and Italy; Rachman was transferred to England and demobilised ...
15 de abr. de 2022 · These practices became known as ‘Rachmanism’ after the Notting Hill slumlord Peter Rachman, but the Milner Holland committee, appointed in 1963 to investigate housing problems in London, uncovered extensive evidence of other landlords, including black and Asian property owners, using white tenants’ prejudices against them. 34 A ...
1 de ene. de 2001 · Economic tensions in the working-class housing market were exacerbated by racial tensions, with large-scale West Indian immigration from the mid-1950s. The scandal associated with the name of Peter Rachman was a product of this crisis, and Rachman has symbolized exploitative landlordism since 1963.
23 de dic. de 2019 · Peter Rachman belonged to a world that polite society did not approve of, though it pruriently enjoyed reading about it. But the coinage “Rachmanism” is now inscribed in the English language as shorthand for rapacious, unscrupulous landlordism.
22 de oct. de 2012 · Joshua Levine meets Nicholas van Hoogstraten, Mandy Rice-Davies and former tenants in search of infamous landlord Peter Rachman.
