HMT Empire Windrush
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British People Month: Caribbean Faith and British Churches 1948-1981, by Dr Dan Renshaw
The arrival of HMT Empire Windrush into Tilbury docks on 22 June 1948 is now recognised as a key moment in the history of post-war Britain. Caribbean communities had settled in British cities and towns prior to the late 1940s,… Continue reading
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#BHM ‘The different meaning of HMT Empire Windrush’ by Dr Daniel Renshaw
On a rainy June morning in the summer of 1948 a British troopship, itself requisitioned from the German navy during the Second World War, arrived at Tilbury docks in Essex, carrying a number of Polish ex-soldiers, some Jamaican pilots who… Continue reading
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