Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land

EVENT | The British Library | Fri 1 Jun – Sun 21 Oct 2018

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The Windrush Foundation 70 Years On

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WINDRUSH PROFILES

Windrush Foundation - Norma Best

Norma Best

In 1944, Britain appealed to her colonies for assistance and one of the smallest was British Honduras…

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Windrush Foundation - Sam King

Sam King MBE

Harold was 18 years of age when war as declared in 1939. Hw was working at a foundry in British Guiana…

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Windrush Foundation - Aurthur Curling

Arthur Curling

In 1944, when the British government advertised in Jamaica for volunteers for the Royal Air Force against…

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Windrush Foundation - Cy Grant

Cy Grant

Cy was born in British Guiana (Now Guyana), and was 22 years of age in 1941 when he volunteered to…

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Community Champions

Sam King

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I was born in Portland, Jamaica in 1926, and worked with my father on the family farm with every intention of eventually …

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Oku Ekpenyon

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As a former head of history at an inner London secondary school and having taught for 20 years, I was …

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Harry Cumberbatch

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In 1964 I was recruited in Barbados by London Transport to work on the buses, after some preparation I arrived at …

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Quotes from the community

"It is crucially important we remember this generation of pioneers as we are all standing on their shoulders"

Sonia Brown

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WINDRUSH PIONEERS

John Richards

Donald Clark

Dr J.S. Risien Russell

Peter Dielhenn

Sam King

Lucilda Harris