Before the Windrush

Before the Windrush
Author: John Belchem
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2014-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1781385858

A fascinating study that examines Liverpool’s mixed population and its approach to race relations, in order to provide historical context and perspective to debates about Britain’s experience of empire in the twentieth century.

Before Windrush

Before Windrush
Author: ASHER. HOYLES HOYLES (MARTIN.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2020-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781912662296

West Indians have been coming to Britain for over 300 years, so the arrival of around 500 Caribbean passengers on the Empire Windrush in 1948 was not new. This book records twenty-eight early West Indian immigrants, such as Norman Manley, Learie Constantine, Una Marson and C.L.R. James, but also less well-known figures like the model Fanny Eaton, nurse Annie Brewster, footballer Andrew Watson and airman Billy Strachan. Their stories are interspersed with Asher's passionate poems.

The Story of Windrush

The Story of Windrush
Author: Kandace Chimbiri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780702307133

A book to celebrate the inspiring legacy of the Windrush pioneers.

Windrush

Windrush
Author: Paul Arnott
Publisher: History Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2021-08-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780750997454

The life, times and extraordinary history of the Windrush: the vessel that created modern Britain

The Other Windrush

The Other Windrush
Author: Maria del Pilar Kaladeen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: Caribbean Area
ISBN: 9780745343587

The history and legacy of Indian and Chinese Caribbean indentured labourers who were part of the Windrush generation.

Imperial Intimacies

Imperial Intimacies
Author: Hazel V. Carby
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1788735110

'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the 'white Carbys' and the 'black Carbys', as Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between the Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby's family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire's interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.

Voices of the Windrush Generation

Voices of the Windrush Generation
Author: David Matthews
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788701534

'Evocative, authentic and brilliantly told - a wonderful read.' David Lammy Foreword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive Lloyd Voices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation - West Indians who emigrated to Britain between 1948 and 1971 in response to labour shortages, and in search of a better life. Edited by journalist and bestselling author David Matthews, this book paints a vivid portrait of what it meant for those who left the Caribbean for Britain during the early days of mass migration. Through his own, and many other stories, Matthews explores: why and how so many people came to Britain after World War II, their hopes and dreams, the communities they formed and the difficulties they faced being separated from family and friends while integrating into an often hostile society. We hear how lives were transformed, and what became of the generations that followed, taking the reader right up to the present day, and the impact of the current Windrush deportation scandal upon everyday people. At once a nostalgic treasure trove of human interest, which unearths the real stories behind the headlines, and a celebration of black British culture, Voices of the Windrush Generation is an absorbing and important book that gives a platform to voices that need to be heard.

Windrush Child

Windrush Child
Author: Benjamin Zephaniah
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-11-05
Genre: Immigrants
ISBN: 9780702302725

In this heart-stopping adventure based on real historical events, Benjamin Zephaniah shows us an important and intriguing time in Britain that's sure to fascinate young readers.

This Lovely City

This Lovely City
Author: Louise Hare
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 148700706X

An atmospheric and utterly compelling debut novel about a Jamaican immigrant living in postwar London, This Lovely City shows that new arrivals have always been the prime suspects — but that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope. London, 1950. With the war over and London still rebuilding, jazz musician Lawrie Matthews has answered England’s call for labour. Arriving from Jamaica aboard the Empire Windrush, he’s rented a tiny room in south London and fallen in love with the girl next door. Playing in Soho’s jazz clubs by night and pacing the streets as a postman by day, Lawrie has poured his heart into his new home — and it’s alive with possibility. Until one morning, while crossing a misty common, he makes a terrible discovery. As the local community rallies, fingers of blame point at those who were recently welcomed with open arms. And before long, London’s newest arrivals become the prime suspects in a tragedy that threatens to tear the city apart. Immersive, poignant, and utterly compelling, Louise Hare’s debut examines the complexities of love and belonging, and teaches us that even in the face of anger and fear, there is always hope.

Mother Country

Mother Country
Author: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Publisher: Headline
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472261895

***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 JHALAK PRIZE*** A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation featuring David Lammy, Lenny Henry, Corinne Bailey Rae, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Hannah Lowe, Jamz Supernova, Natasha Gordon and Rikki Beadle-Blair. For the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was 'the Mother Country'. They made the long journey across the sea, expecting to find a place where they would be be welcomed with open arms; a land in which you were free to build a new life, eight thousand miles away from home. This remarkable book explores the reality of their experiences, and those of their children and grandchildren, through 22 unique real-life stories spanning more than 70 years. "The story of Windrush, is, like any other, a story of humanity. Of life, love, struggle, hope, misery, success and failure. It's one that is too often neglected in our media ... but this volume acts as a remedy to that failure of story-telling, which I ask you to both savour and share." - David Lammy MP Contributors include: Catherine Ross, Corinne Bailey-Rae, David Lammy, Gail Lewis, Hannah Lowe, Howard Gardner, Jamz Supernova, Kay Montano, Kemi Alemoru, Kimberley McIntosh, Lazare Sylvestre, Lenny Henry, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, Myrna Simpson, Naomi Oppenheim, Natasha Gordon, Nellie Brown, Paul Reid, Riaz Phillips, Rikki Beadle-Blair, Sharmaine Lovegrove, Sharon Frazer-Carroll.