The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system or attitudes. It postulates an impersonal government, not described in any detail, but apparently content to operate through a figurehead king, randomly chosen. The dreary succession of randomly selected Kings of England is broken up when Auberon Quin, who cares
Notting Hill Carnival the global Carnival season preceding Lent. This event is a huge street festival which attracts around one million people every year to Notting Hill and looks to highlight Caribbean and black diasporic cultures. Carnival uses influences from many other festivals around the world. Authors Julian Henriques and Beatrice Ferrara claim the festival pulls from other carnivals including Barbados ‘Cropover’, Grenada Carnival, Guyana ‘Mash’, Canadian ‘Caribana’ in Toronto, the US ‘Labour Day Festival’ in Brooklyn, ‘Vincy Mas’ in St. Vincent. They also explain that Notting Hill Carnival is dually influenced by its diasporic cultures and its own country’s influences. Both the