Tag: Windrush
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West Indian Immigration to Britain: 1948: The Empire Windrush
It’s seventy years since the Empire Windrush arrived in Britain, carrying hundreds of West Indian immigrants, and the event has come to symbolize the start of the first wave Commonwealth migration to the United Kingdom. How did it all start? The Empire Windrush was a troopship, commandeered from the Germans at the end of WW2.…
