Editing Anglicisation (section)

==== Modern non-British Isles diasporas ====
{{See also|Modern immigration to the United Kingdom}}
[[File:Harold Abrahams 1924.jpg|thumb|198x198px|[[Harold Abrahams]], an Anglicised athlete celebrated by British Jews for obtaining gold in the [[Athletics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres|1924 Olympics 100m sprint]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dee |first=David |date=2012-04-01 |title=‘Too Semitic’ or ‘Thoroughly ‘Anglicised’? The Life and Career of Harold Abrahams |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09523367.2011.631006 |journal=The International Journal of the History of Sport |language=EN |doi=10.1080/09523367.2011.631006 |issn=0952-3367|url-access=subscription }}</ref>]]
Jewish refugees in Britain at the turn of the 20th century were encouraged to Anglicise themselves by playing [[British sports]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dee |first=David |date=2012 |title=‘The Sunshine of Manly Sports and Pastimes’: Sport and the Integration of Jewish Refugees in Britain, 1895–1914 |url=https://www.academia.edu/673137/_The_Sunshine_of_Manly_Sports_and_Pastimes_Sport_and_the_Integration_of_Jewish_Refugees_in_Britain_1895_1914 |journal=Immigrants &amp; Minorities |volume=30 |pages=318–342 |issn=0261-9288}}</ref> Such assimilation was desired by both the immigrants and the local Anglo-Jewish elite, as it would preempt antisemitic and xenophobic prejudices.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Hawkins |first=Samuel |title=From 'undesirable alien' to proud British Jewry: the Jewish immigrant experience in memory and history, 1881 to present |date=2017 |degree=phd |publisher=University of Southampton |url=https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/428630/ |language=en}}</ref>