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South Asian nannies, ayahs, journeyed to Britain by the thousands in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Disengaged once they were in England, the women typically went to the Ayahs’ and Amahs’ Home in Hackney, run by the London City Mission. bit.ly/3U34YOH

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