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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
£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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