FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSH

FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSH

FROM EMANCIPATION TO WINDRUSH The Exhibition includes texts and images about life in the West Indies  from Emancipation in the 1830s when nearly a million Africans in British colonies won their liberty, having been enslaved for all or most of their lives. After August...
Maurice Hudson

Maurice Hudson

  Oh yes, I have four brothers and four sisters. They all came to England after I came back on the Empire Windrush, and by the grace of God we encouraged them to learn something. One of my sisters, Una Joyce King, I took her to St Giles Hospital when she was...

Cecil Holness

Oh yes, I have four brothers and four sisters. They all came to England after I came back on the Empire Windrush, and by the grace of God we encouraged them to learn something. One of my sisters, Una Joyce King, I took her to St Giles Hospital when she was eighteen to...

George Manson

On leaving school in Jamaica at 16 years of age, George got a job as a Clerk in one of the Courts. When Royal Air Force appealed in 1944 for volunteers to help in the war against Germany, he had no hesitation to enlist.  He passed the test and had initial military...