Windrush Day
Windrush Day 2020
Windrush Day was introduced on 22 June 2018, on the 70th anniversary of the date when hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean arrived to the UK aboard the MV Empire Windrush. Windrush Day is intended to recognise and honour the significant contributions of the Windrush Generation to British social, cultural and political life.
Tell us your stories! To honour Windrush Day we want to hear your Windrush stories from across Camden
Tell us about your experiences, show us your photos or make some art to be featured in the development of our new Camden People’s Museum. Send us your stories to to camdenalive@camden.gov.uk
Tell us your stories! To honour Windrush Day we want to hear your Windrush stories from across Camden
Tell us about your experiences, show us your photos or make some art to be featured in the development of our new Camden People’s Museum. Send us your stories to to camdenalive@camden.gov.uk
Events
Online Events and Resources for Windrush Day 2020
Photograph of John Hazel, Harold Wilmot and John Richards at Tilbury Docks, June 1948 - © Popperfoto/Getty Images/Contributor
Photograph of John Hazel, Harold Wilmot and John Richards at Tilbury Docks, June 1948 - © Popperfoto/Getty Images/Contributor
Resident Stories: Olive
Olive, a service user at Kingsgate Centre:
“It gets forgotten that black people were here a long time before Windrush. I saw a Black History Month feature recently in the Camden New Journal with local figures going back to the 1700s and slavery. I pulled it out to keep – and I want to read Olaudah Equiano’s book now.”
“It’s important to remember the contributions of black people to this country. For instance, people from the West Indies did a lot for Britain during World War 2. My cousin served in the RAF.”
“I’m 92 years old, and came to London in 1955. It took weeks to reach England from Jamaica. I travelled with civil servants and someone who was going to study law and was appointed to the Queen’s Counsel. I worked in the rag trade, sewing, then I became a nurse’s aide and worked in St Mary’s Hospital helping with delivering children.
“It was hard back then without support with childcare so then I focused on raising my family. I moved to the US with my husband, but came back after he passed away, because my children and grandchildren are here.”
“It gets forgotten that black people were here a long time before Windrush. I saw a Black History Month feature recently in the Camden New Journal with local figures going back to the 1700s and slavery. I pulled it out to keep – and I want to read Olaudah Equiano’s book now.”
“It’s important to remember the contributions of black people to this country. For instance, people from the West Indies did a lot for Britain during World War 2. My cousin served in the RAF.”
“I’m 92 years old, and came to London in 1955. It took weeks to reach England from Jamaica. I travelled with civil servants and someone who was going to study law and was appointed to the Queen’s Counsel. I worked in the rag trade, sewing, then I became a nurse’s aide and worked in St Mary’s Hospital helping with delivering children.
“It was hard back then without support with childcare so then I focused on raising my family. I moved to the US with my husband, but came back after he passed away, because my children and grandchildren are here.”
Digital Titles
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant
Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing The Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman
Black and British by David Olusoga
Staying Power by Peter Fryer
Windrush 1948: Legacy and Assessment by Trevor Harris
Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The Real Story by David Matthews
Beyond Windrush by J. Dillon Brown
Windrush: A Ship Through Time by Paul Arnott
Surge by Jay Bernard
Homecoming by Colin Grant
Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall
This Lovely City by Louise Hare
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Lovers and Strangers by Clair Wills
Click here to access the titles above!
(Image: Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall)
Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock
The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing The Hostile Environment by Amelia Gentleman
Black and British by David Olusoga
Staying Power by Peter Fryer
Windrush 1948: Legacy and Assessment by Trevor Harris
Shame on Me by Tessa McWatt
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Voices of the Windrush Generation: The Real Story by David Matthews
Beyond Windrush by J. Dillon Brown
Windrush: A Ship Through Time by Paul Arnott
Surge by Jay Bernard
Homecoming by Colin Grant
Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall
This Lovely City by Louise Hare
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
Lovers and Strangers by Clair Wills
Click here to access the titles above!
(Image: Familiar Stranger by Stuart Hall)