Crafting a New Britain: The Windrush Generation in Leicester’s Shoe Industry
In a Leicester shoe factory in 1959, a worker bends over a half-stitched moccasin, the light catching the…
The Windrush Generation
You Called and We Came Remembering Nurses of the Windrush Generation
They came with crisp uniforms folded into battered suitcases, with certificates of training carefully tucked away, with the…
No Small matter of Millie and me – When “My Boy Lollipop” came to Woodland Street, Smethwick.
Not only is one end of the street the home of Sunrise Bakery, one of the UK’s first…
The Windrush experience expressed in music – from 1948 to 2022
Among the very first Caribbeans to arrive in Britain aboard the SS Empire Windrush was Aldwyn Roberts, a…
Louise Da-Cocodia and the discrimination faced by black nurses in the infant days of the NHS
There would appear to be no obvious connection between the two, and yet, in its days of infancy,…
National Windrush monument unveiled at London Waterloo Station
Members of the Windrush generation and their families joined HRH Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at London Waterloo…
Windrush Day 2022: Thanksgiving Gatherings
The distinguished and much celebrated Academic, Professor Sir Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences…
Windrush Day 2022 – how are you celebrating
You’ll find a full list of Windrush Day 2022 events and activities around the UK on Black History…
The Windrush experience expressed in music – from 1948 to 2022
The Windrush experience began with Caribbeans being invited to Britain to help rebuild the country after World War…
The White Knight Box A West Indian Journey
Even the very real threat of German U-Boats couldn’t deter him, anywhere was better than small-island, no-opportunity, boring…
Pearl Alcock – The art of living
A life that experienced abuse, a loveless marriage and the loss of a child before it flowered again…
Dame Donna Kinnair – Realising the hopes of the Windrush Generation
Quite a few of these young hopefuls got jobs in hospitals, not as nurses, but as “orderlies” as…
Bishop Wilfred Wood, The Church of England’s first black Bishop
Born in Barbados to Wilfred Coward and Elsie Elmira Wood, in Proute, St Thomas, Wood [later Sir Wilfred]…
You Called and We Came: Remembering Nurses of the Windrush Generation
Contrary to popular belief the increased migration to England post war, was not solely the result of peoples…
My Mother, Jamaica, Windrush and Me
The article said that it took 13 years for the victim to be recognised as a legal citizen….
Baroness Floella Benjamin…A Windrush Story
I am very much part of the Windrush generation because I came to Britain from Trinidad as a…
