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Showing posts with label Empire Windrush. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 1, 2009

JG - Sailing to Britain - Sixty years after the 'Windrush'

From my archive of press clippings:

Jamaica Gleaner

Sailing to Britain - Sixty years after the 'Windrush'

published: Sunday June 22, 2008

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'Empire Windrush' with the Jamaican immigrants en masse being welcomed June 22, 1948.

ON THE 27th of May, 60 years ago, the Empire Windrush sailed from Jamaica for Trinidad at the start of a voyage that was to lead to one of the greatest social transformations of British history.

Read the whole article here.