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Exhibitions & Galleries

The Gallery | Identity | Windrush
Members of the Wandsworth Black Elderly Project performing a play at the Wandsworth Museum in London in 1998. The play was based on the memories of Caribbean people arriving in Britain after the Second World War and was written to mark the 50th anniv
www.movinghere.org.uk/gallery/identity/windrush.htm

Migration Histories | Caribbean | Journeys
An detailed look into Caribbean journeys
www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/caribbean/journeys/journeys.htm

Migration Histories | Caribbean | Culture and Festivals | Culture and Festivals - Swing
The SS Empire Windrush, which sailed from the Caribbean in 1948, is commonly associated in modern British consciousness with the recruitment of much-needed labour for London Transport and the National Health Service
www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/caribbean/culture/swing_1.htm

Tracing Your Roots | Caribbean | Caribbean - Migration
A detailed look into Caribbean migration - migration to the Caribbean, migration to the UK and migration outside the UK.
www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/caribbean/migration/migration.htm

Migration Histories | Caribbean | Working Lives
Lord Justice Mansfield ruled that Black slaves could not be removed from England against their wishes. By the 19th century the Black beggars and crossing sweepers had more or less disappeared from the streets of British cities
www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/caribbean/working_lives/working_lives.htm

Migration Histories | Caribbean | Settling
An detailed look into Caribbean settling
www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/histories/caribbean/settling/settling.htm

Stories

Windrush
A Caribbean migrant arrives aboard the Empire Windrush
www.movinghere.org.uk/stories/story_WMMHWritersBorders05/story_WMMHWritersBorders05.htm

The Men From Jamaica Are Settling Down
On Wednesday 21st June 1948 the troop ship SS Empire Windrush arrived in Tilbury Dock, England. Many of the passengers on board were ex-servicemen from the Caribbean who had recently fought for Britain during the 2nd Great European war, aka World Wa
www.movinghere.org.uk/stories/story130/story130.htm

Moving Here – from Jamaica
A young 18 year old girl came to England from her native Jamaica to join her mother and step dad in the sixties. They came over in the Windrush years.
www.movinghere.org.uk/stories/story_WMMHWritersBorders01/story_WMMHWritersBorders01.htm

Leeds Barbados Association
I came to Leeds in 1960, to join my husband, and to take up the post of Staff Nurse at St James Hospital Psychiatric Unit.
www.movinghere.org.uk/stories/story150/story150.htm