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The Windrush Generation -

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 7 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain by Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips
    Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain - by Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips

    £12.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008609702 | ISBN 10: 0008609705

    The oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants.  In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the first generation of C ... more

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  • Cover image of book Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story by Tony Fairweather
    Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings: A Windrush Story - by Tony Fairweather

    £11.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781913109196 | ISBN 10: 1913109194

    After World War Two England was on her knees, so the call went out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the ‘Mother Country’.   Young men and women from different Caribbean islands were quick to respond, paying the consider ... more

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  • Cover image of book Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
    Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation - by Colin Grant

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784709136 | ISBN 10: 1784709131

    When Colin Grant was growing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned not to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. ‘We’re here because we’re here,’ his father would say. ‘You have some place else to go?’  But now, se ... more

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  • Cover image of book Voices of the Windrush Generation by David Matthews
    Voices of the Windrush Generation - by David Matthews

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788701761 | ISBN 10: 1788701763

    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 197 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands by Hazel V Carby
    Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands - by Hazel V Carby

    £20.00   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788735094 | ISBN 10: 1788735099

    '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 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
    Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children - by Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781472261915 | ISBN 10: 1472261917

    A leading new exploration of the Windrush generation, featuring David Lammy and Lenny Henry.  Britain was known as the Mother Country: a home away from home; a place that you would be welcomed with open arms; a land where you were free to build a ... more

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  • Cover image of book War to Windrush: Black Women in Britain 1939-1948 by Stephen Bourne
    War to Windrush: Black Women in Britain 1939-1948 - by Stephen Bourne

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781909762855 | ISBN 10: 1909762857

    From the author of Black Poppies, Fighting Proud and Evelyn Dove comes a timely new account exploring Britain’s diverse history from the Second World War to the Empire Windrush and beyond, told through the experiences of black British women.  ... more

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