Passengers who arrived to Britain on HMT Empire Windrush, in 1948 More than £400,000 has been secured for victims of the Windrush scandal wrongly denied payment through the Home Office compensation ...
Jamaican immigrants welcomed by RAF officials from the Colonial Office after the ex-troopship HMT 'Empire Windrush' landed them at Tilbury. Jamaican immigrants welcomed by RAF officials from the ...
The British Royal Family marked Windrush Day by unveiling a selection of portraits of the Windrush Generation commissioned by King Charles III. The ten portraits created to honor Caribbean men, women, ...
This feature first appeared in June 2023 on Londonist: Time Machine, our much-praised history newsletter. To be the first to read new history features like this, sign up for free here. Decades later, ...
The Empire Windrush is commonly believed to be the first boat to have brought post-war migrants from the Caribbean to Britain in 1948. This moment was captured by the Pathé newsreel of the famous ...
June 22 is Windrush Day in the United Kingdom, and it marks the contributions of hundreds of Black Caribbean economic migrants who began arriving on the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948. Those ...
In 2004 Theresa May said "I find it extraordinary that a Minister isn’t willing just to step up to the plate and take responsibility... I’m actually sick and tired of Government Ministers who simply ...
The Windrush generations were proudly British. Yet immigrants are still fighting to be seen that way
This week’s Windrush Day reception at No 10 was joyous – but also a reminder of the ugliness behind the ‘island of strangers’ rhetoric This week I went to a Windrush Day reception in the gardens of 10 ...
That the term “Windrush scandal” has become well-known is a testament to the tireless campaigns to demand justice for the Windrush generation in the UK. As Black Britons from predominantly former ...
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