Windrush
75 years of modern britain
$37.12
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2023
Summary
Windrush: Voices of a Generation
The oral history of Britain’s first West Indian immigrants and their descendants
In 1948 the former troop ship Windrush made the 30-day journey across the Atlantic from Jamaica. The arrival of its 500 passengers, the first generation of Caribbean migrants in the UK, was the initial step in the formation of a new identity: the black Briton.
Fifty years later, Mike and Trevor Phillips spoke to those on the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008609702 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0008609705 |
| Author: | Trevor Phillips, Mike Phillips |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | Mudlark |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2023 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 30mm |
About The Author
Trevor Phillips
Mike Phillips was born in Guyana, came to Britain as a child and grew up in London. A journalist, broadcaster and university lecturer before becoming a full time writer, his series of crime fiction novels began with ‘Blood Rights’ (1989), adapted for BBC television, and his reputation as a historian was established with ‘Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain’ (1998). Mike writes for the Guardian, and works as Cross Cultural curator at Tate Britain.
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