The Notting Hill Carnival in London is held during which month of the year?
Notting Hill Carnival For the 2011 Notting Hill Carnival an iPhone app was released, and in 2012 both iPhone and Android apps. For 2014, a Notting Hill Carnival illustrated guide was created by official city guide to London visitlondon.com. The infographic includes Carnival tips, transport information and a route map. The book "Carnival: A Photographic and Testimonial History of the Notting Hill Carnival", by Ishmahil Blagrove and Margaret Busby, was also published in August 2014 by Rice N Peas. In 2015 there was controversy when the Nottinghill Carnival Trust charged journalists £100 to cover the event, and demanded copies of all work produced
Notting Hill Carnival The roots of the Notting Hill Carnival that took shape in the mid-1960s had two separate but connected strands. A "Caribbean Carnival" was held on 30 January 1959 in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the problematic state of race relations at the time; the UK's first widespread racial attacks, the Notting Hill race riots in which 108 people were charged, had occurred the previous year. The 1959 event, held indoors and televised by the BBC, was organised by the Trinidadian Claudia Jones (often described as "the mother of the Notting Hill Carnival") in her capacity as editor