Odysseus' legacy in Newcastle: an overview of the city's Greek settlement

This essay provide an insight into Newcastle's Greek settlement, from the 1830s through to the late 20th century. From the 1880s, early collective settlement began to establish a ‘transformative’ presence in the city’s food-catering industry – most notably through Ithacan and Arcadian Greeks. By the late 1940s, a formal Greek Orthodox Community of Newcastle was created. Following World War II, Greeks arriving from a variety of areas in Greece overlaid the earlier regional chains of migration. Through these new arrivals, and the offspring of earlier Greek settlers, a diversification of occupations became evident.