A special Windrush project has been launched in project with the aim of teaching young...
By train, by plane or by automobile, our grandparents really knew how to travel in style.
Rare photographs of Black Britons in the late 19th and early 20th century are on display at Rivington Place, London.
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.
Portraits of 11 women that form part of an exhibition by photographer Jim Grover on the 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.
In celebration of the Caribbean community in south London Jim Grover is an award-winning photographer
Yvadney Davis art, black British Caribbean portrait artist celebrating the Windrush Generation and its descendants.
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.
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.
A Woman Like Me by Diane Abbott | From challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK, Diane Abbott has seen it all. A Woman Like Me takes reader...
Kate Middleton and Prince William, the Prince and Princess of Wales, paid a poignant visit to Cardiff, Wales to mark the 75th anniversary of the Windrush generation and the start of Black History Month in the U.K. — and their host tells PEOPLE what it was like to spend time with the royal couple
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"
Unveiled in May, the new sundial dedicated to the Windrush Generation
For a year, photographer Jim Grover has captured the lives of south London’s Windrush generation
The journey of the Windrush generation before, during and after arriving in the UK
Harry Jacobs established a studio in Stockwell, south London, where he became a renowned photographer to the Caribbean community for decades
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
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
