“From War To Windrush”

This week, I had a meeting at the postal regulator Postcomm in my cpacity as a member of the Council ofthe postal consumer watchdog Postwatch. I had some time to spare and, since Postcomm is located close to the Imperial War Museum, I called into the museum and viewed one of ts current temporary exhibitions.
The exhibition is called “From War To Windrush”. It tells the personal stories of the involvement of black men and women from the West Indies and Britain in the First and Second World Wars.
The “Empire Windrush” is the ship that brought to Britain the first large-scale group of black immigrants. It docked on 22 June 1948 – the week of my birth.

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  • Calvin Allen
    September 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 am

    Roger,
    This period and the involvement of people from the Caribbean in the Second World War are twin themes in Andrea Levy’s ‘Small Island’ – a very powerfully-told tale, if you get a chance to read it.