A special Windrush project has been launched in project with the aim of teaching young...
Jim Grover’s photographs of the Windrush generation at home in south London are a joy. His project began in June 2017 in Grover’s local church. A parishioner invited him to see the clubs where he played “bones”. “It was a revelation to me,” says Grover. “I had no idea that Caribbean migrants met three times a … Continue reading "A Year With London’s Windrush Generation"
To mark National Windrush Day 2020, Hackney Council has revealed it has commissioned two sculptures that will honour the Windrush generation. Artists Thomas J Price and Veronica Ryan have designed artworks that will take pride of place in the London borough and the pieces will be unveiled in 2021.
Unveiled in May, the new sundial dedicated to the Windrush Generation
This month marks 70 years since the arrival of the first of the Windrush generation, the Caribbean immigrants who came to the UK on HMT Empire Windrush. With a
Some seventy years after the first arrivals of immigrants from Jamaica, the “Windrush generation” has returned to the center of attention in Britain—not this time in a spirit of optimism and hope but of hurt and anger. The Caribbean-born children of those who came to England in the 1950s and 1960s are now threatened with dispossession, even deportation. Despite their having lived in the UK for decades, working and paying taxes, many of these black Britons lack the paperwork to prove their immigration status—thanks to a very British bureaucratic anomaly. As a result, many have lost jobs, as well as access to benefits and healthcare; some face losing their residency rights.
PRINCE William and Kate were welcomed with open arms yesterday at an event to celebrate the Windrush generation.The royal pair heard stories and joine
To mark the start of Black history Month, British sculptor, Veronica Ryan, unveils the UK's first permanent public artwork to honor the Windrush generation in the east London borough of Hackney – right where we are based! According to The Guardian, the work is one of two permanent sculptures that symbolise the council’s respect and commitment to the Windrush generation and their legacy and contribution to the area.
Portraits of 11 women that form part of an exhibition by photographer Jim Grover on the Windrush generation.
The Windrush generation is being celebrated in a series of 10 new portraits that will go on public display for the first time from Thursday 22 June at Edinburgh’s Royal Palace
Rare photographs of Black Britons in the late 19th and early 20th century are on display at Rivington Place, London.
By train, by plane or by automobile, our grandparents really knew how to travel in style.
The journey of the Windrush generation before, during and after arriving in the UK
The Empire Windrush arrived at the port of Tilbury on 22 June 1948, carrying 492 passengers from Jamaica wishing to start a new life in the United Kingdom.
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After the Second World War, Britain gained a melting-pot of Caribbean culture and music. Today, we celebrate 72 years since the Empire Windrush docked in Essex – and ultimately changed the UK Arts scene forever.
We provide personal narratives, insight, comments and reflections highlighting the Windrush Generation who came to Britain to those born in the Mil...
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