{{Short description|Ethnic group in the United Kingdom}}
{{Infobox ethnic group |group = Baltic British |image = |caption = |population = '''Baltic-born residents'''<br>108,711 Lithuanian-born (2011 census)<br>61,441 Latvian-born (2011 census) |popplace = London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Kingston upon Hull, York, Kings Lynn and Glasgow |langs = English, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian. |rels = Catholicism{{·}}Judaism{{*}}Protestantism |related-c = Balts }} '''Baltic people in the United Kingdom''' are those born or raised in the UK, or residents, who are of ethnically Baltic, meaning Latvian or Lithuanian, origin.
==History, population and settlement== In the early 20th century, many Latvian and Lithuanian refugees began to settle in Glasgow and at its height in the 1950s, there were around 10,000 in the Glasgow area.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.theguardian.com/g2/story/0,,1692714,00.html| title=Lithuanians in Glasgow|date=2006-01-23| author=The Guardian| website=TheGuardian.com| accessdate=2007-07-09}}</ref>
Significant numbers of Baltic people moved to the UK in 1947 under a government-backed scheme called ''Westward Ho''. The first group of displaced persons (DPs) from the British zone of occupation of Germany arrived in the UK in 1947, called the ''Balt Cygnets''.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmHMultyyy0C&q=Westward+Ho+baltic+cygnets&pg=PA56|chapter=On the Significance of Being White: European Migrant Workers in the British Economy in the 1940s and 2000s|title=New Geographies of Race and Racism|isbn=978-0-7546-7085-8|first=Linda|last=McDowell|editor1-last=Dwyer|editor1-first=Claire|editor2-last=Bressey|editor2-first=Caroline|year=2008|location=Aldershot|publisher=Ashgate|pages=51–64}}</ref>
The 2011 UK Census recorded 95,730 Lithuanian-born residents in England, 1,353 in Wales,<ref name=EngWal2011>{{Census UK CoB|accessdate=25 November 2017|year=2011|region=England and Wales}}</ref> 4,287 in Scotland,<ref name=Scot2011>{{Census UK CoB|accessdate=25 November 2017|year=2011|region=Scotland}}</ref> and 7,341 in Northern Ireland.<ref name=NI2011>{{Census UK CoB|accessdate=25 November 2017|year=2011|region=Northern Ireland}}</ref> The census recorded 53,977 Latvian-born residents in England, 692 in Wales,<ref name=EngWal2011/> 4,475 in Scotland,<ref name=Scot2011/> and 2,297 in Northern Ireland.<ref name=NI2011/>
The previous, 2001 UK Census, had recorded 4,363 UK residents born in Lithuania and 4,275 born in Latvia.<ref name="Census2001">{{Cite web| url=http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/23/34792376.xls|title=Country-of-birth database|publisher=Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development|accessdate=26 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504031258/http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/23/34792376.xls|archive-date=4 May 2011}}</ref>
There is a Latvian section at the Brookwood cemetery near London.<ref>[https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/subjects/diversity/the-living-and-the-dead-exploring-minority-burial-grounds-in-brookwood-cemetery/latvian-cemetery/ Latvian Cemetery - Exploring Surrey's Past]</ref>
== See also == *European Voluntary Workers *Lithuanians in the United Kingdom
==References== {{reflist}}
==Bibliography== * Burrell, Kathy and Panayi, Panikos: [https://books.google.com/books?id=KK0GR2ZrVL4C&dq=%22Lithuanians+in+Britain%22&pg=PA89 ''Histories and Memories: Latvians and Their History in Britain''] * Budriuniene, Jolanta: [https://web.archive.org/web/20090520230527/http://www.kirmus.ee/baltic_archives_abroad_2006/kogumik/eng/Budriuniene_eng.pdf ''Regeneration of the Lithuanian Emigrant Press: Fifteen Years' Experience'']
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