Windrush Generations

Historical background

Paul Arnott, Windrush: A Ship Through Time (Stroud: The History Press, 2021)

Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (London: Pluto Press, 1984)

Peter Fryer, Aspects of Black British History (London: Index Books,1993)

Ruth Glass, *London’s Newcomers: The West Indian Mirgants *(London: HUP, 1960)

Kennetta Hammond Perry, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (Oxford: OUP, 2015)

Reynolds, Z. Nia, ed., When I Came to England: An Oral History of Life in 1950s and 1960s (London: Black Stock, 2001)

David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History (London: Macmillan, 2016)

Kathleen Paul, Whitewashing Britain: Race and Citizenship in the Postwar Era (London: Cornell University Press, 1997)

Mike Phillips and Trevor Phillips, Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain (London, 1998)

Tony Sewell, Keep on Moving: the Windrush legacy, the black experience in Britain from 1948 (London, 1998)

James Walvin, Passage to Britain: Immigration in British History and Politics (Harmondsworth: Penguin,1984)

James Winston and Clive Harris, eds., Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain (London: Verso, 1993)

Books for children

Baroness Floella Benjamin & Joelle Avelino, Coming to England: An Inspiring True Story Celebrating the Windrush Generation (London: Macmillan, 2021)

K.N. Chimbiri, The Story of Windrush (London: Scholastic, 2020)

Clive Gifford, The Empire Windrush (London: Collins Educational, 2014)

David Olusoga, Black and British: A short, essential history (London: Macmillan, 2020)

Jillian Powell, All Aboard the Empire Windrush (London: Rising Stars, 2019)

Benjamin Zephaniah, Windrush Child (London: Scholastic, 2020)

About the project

John Price, 'Mapping Windrush Arrivals', Livingmaps Review, Issue 9 (https://www.livingmaps.org/new-page-4)