Windrush: The Story of Black Britain (TRIH ep 401)
1948 · Resource
In May 1948, the HMT Windrush sailed from Kingston with almost 500 migrants on board, destined for England. The ship docked at Tilbury on the 22nd of June, and history was made. Since that day the legend of Windrush has gradually come to characterise an increasingly broad and more diverse group of British citizens, and the event stands as a sacred moment in the history of British multiculturalism, race relations and immigration, laden though it is with moral and political baggage.
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Around 1948
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Apartheid (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)