People’s sense of belonging is fostered in everyday social practices and in the spaces they claim for themselves. Our elders need be acknowledged, respected and accepted.
Teenagers enjoying a reggae sound system at the 1981 Notting Hill Carnival.
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Pore over family documents such as birth certificates and old passports, photographs and heirlooms, however trinket-like they might seem. Family history requires research in its broadest sense.
Jessica Huntley and Angela Davis at the Keskidee Centre, London, (c.1975).
Courtesy of Michael McMillan/Huntley Archives at London Metropolitan Archives
Cricket was a significant bridge between England and ‘home’ in the Caribbean, making the sport an important part of the black Atlantic cultural exchange.
Windrush has turned out to be a defining moment in telling the story of Britain, with writing by Caribbean migrants fundamental to exposing the realities of the British empire.
A paper trail, both typed and handwritten, documents Cummings’ dogged efforts to secure accommodations and resources for the Windrushers on a time crunch.
Labourers and children of Indian heritage walking down a street in Guyana in the early 1920s.
The Field Museum Library
When people think about the Windrush generation, they are unlikely to imagine someone like my father, who was not black but a person of Indian-Caribbean heritage.
Windrush campaigners, in June, 2021, during a protest calling for a new independent body to administer the compensation scheme.
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