Independent History Researcher Launches Windrush 75 Event in Lambeth
Pan-London voluntary organisation BTWSC/African Histories Revisited is setting its Another Lambeth Windrush History? June 23 1948 talk programme…
Windrush 75
Futuretense: Windrush Day Special
futuretense is all about showcasing the best new British and international music, giving you the chance to discover artists…
‘Belongings: Windrush 75’ Art, Film & Performance Installation
EAF is hosting an art and film installation over a 36-hour continuous period from Saturday through to Sunday…
Lewisham: About Face
The Migration Museum is exhibiting a new installation by multidisciplinary visual artist EVEWRIGHT as part of this year’s…
Tilbury Bridge Walkway of Memories
Bring your elders, grandparents, family members and join us on one of our guided tours on Windrush day…
Windrush 2023: Industrial Voices of Windrush Nottinghamshire
Industrial Voices of Windrush Nottinghamshire is part of WINDRUSH 2023 events, 75 years anniversary talk and presentation by Norma Gregory, leading…
Amy Ashwood Garvey: A Trailblazing Pan-Africanist and Advocate for Black Empowerment in the Windrush Generation
On 10 January 1897, Amy Ashwood Garvey was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, and her personal journey as…
Cleveland Watkiss: The Great Jamaican Songbook
Cleveland Watkiss is one of the most celebrated British Jazz vocalists of his generation. He won the Ivor…
Women of the Windrush
Through mesmerising song and archive film footage, Shirley J. Thompson’s opera Women of the Windrush portrays inspirational narratives…
Breaking Barriers: The Career of Elisabeth Welch, Broadway Star and Film Actress
Elisabeth Welch was born on February 27, 1904, in New York City. Her mother was of African-American and…
Lancelot McFayden – A life of love and loyalty
The story of Lancelot McFayden, Mac to his friends, family and RAF colleagues, is a unique story connecting…
Windrush NHS Stories: Scriptwriting with Keisha Thompson
Keisha will use her solo show, Man on the Moon, as a reference point for exploring taboo stories…
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,…
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…
Tony Fairweather’s debut novel Twenty Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story
It is 1948, and post-war Britain is on her knees. The call has gone out to the British…
WATCH: Windrush Pioneer: Dame Jocelyn Barrow
Well I was brought up with great confidence. I was brought up to feel that nobody could prevent…
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…
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….
