Windrush Audiobook Libro.fm

The oral history of Britains first West Indian immigrants and their descendants

In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica The arrival of its 500 passengers the first generation of Caribbean migrants in the UK was the initial step in the formation of a new identity the black Briton
Fifty years later Mike and Trevor Phillips spoke to those on the Windrush itself as well as those who followed to tell the story of Britain in the second half of the twentieth century through the eyes of the outsiders who became insiders
Now updated to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the ships voyage and including reflections on its political and cultural legacy in 2023 Windrush is an essential record of this transformative era in British social history