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    HMT Empire Windrush was a passenger motor ship that was launched in Germany in 1930 as Monte Rosa. She was designed as an ocean liner for Hamburg Südamerikanische...
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  • Gloucestershire Windrush, Gloucestershire, a village in Gloucestershire RAF Windrush, a Royal Air Force station in World War II HMT Empire Windrush, a ship emblematic...
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  • celebrates Afro-Caribbeans who began arriving on the HMT Empire Windrush in 1948. Later known as the "Windrush generation", these economic migrants were an important...
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  • particularly from Caribbean countries, as members of the "Windrush generation" (so named after the Empire Windrush, the ship that brought one of the first groups...
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    original on 1 September 2020. Retrieved 1 September 2020. "HMT Empire Windrush". Windrush Review. June 2020. Archived from the original on 1 September...
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    who came to the United Kingdom on board HMT Empire Windrush in 1948, who subsequently became known as the Windrush generation. The inscription accompanying...
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    area, marking the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush. It was the Windrush that in 1948 brought to the United Kingdom from Jamaica...
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  • were noted as being the largest recruiters. On 21 June 1948, the HMT Empire Windrush arrived in Britain with, among other migrants from the Caribbean...
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    However, it was the voyage of HMT Empire Windrush in June the following year which was to become well-known. Empire Windrush arrived with a group of 802...
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  • 1948, Fryer had covered the arrival at Tilbury Docks in Britain of HMT Empire Windrush bringing settlers from the Caribbean. His interest in their experiences...
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  • Me" on camera for reporters upon arrival at Tilbury Docks on the HMT Empire Windrush, and was recorded by Pathé News cameras. Roberts, as Lord Kitchener...
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  • 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Britain of the HMT Empire Windrush, the ship that brought the first significant wave of post-war West...
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  • Time, No See (2015) and her research into the historicising of the HMT Empire Windrush and postwar Caribbean migration to Britain. Her 2021 book The Kids...
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    Both his parents are from Dominica, and arrived in the UK aboard HMT Empire Windrush. His mother worked in the courts; he has a brother who is a barrister...
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  • British rule of the Caribbean Decline and legacy of the British Empire HMT Empire Windrush Languages British English Caribbean English Multicultural London...
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    London. There were an estimated 492 that were passengers on the HMT Empire Windrush that arrived at Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948. These passengers settled...
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    The space was renamed Windrush Square in 2010, in honour of the area's early Caribbean migrants and the HMT Empire Windrush, which in 1948 brought 492...
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    of which remains in US service as USCGC Eagle. The passenger ship HMT Empire Windrush, which had a notable role in the post-war history of the United Kingdom...
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    African-Caribbean community arrived in 1948 at Tilbury Docks on the HMT Empire Windrush from Jamaica and were temporarily housed in the Clapham South deep...
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  • he started to sing calypso. He returned to England in 1948 on the HMT Empire Windrush, the ship which carried the first boatful of West Indian immigrants...
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    Marcus Lipton (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    later experiences of West Indian migrants to the United Kingdom, the 'Windrush men' were welcomed and subsequently invited to an event with a small party...
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  • Labours Lost with the story of the Windrush immigrants (those Jamaicans who arrived in Britain aboard HMT Empire Windrush in 1948, which began an era of multiculturalism)...
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    Clement Attlee (category British Empire in World War II)
    who raised concerns about West Indians who arrived on board the HMT Empire Windrush. As for the prime minister himself, he was not much focused on economic...
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  • Vernon said: "Black history hasn't been recognised. We didn't come here at Windrush in [1948] – we've been here for a thousand years. We've influenced and...
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    the first immigrants from the West Indies who had arrived on the HMT Empire Windrush for four weeks until they found their own accommodation. In 1951...
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    Joanna Lumley (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    tropics. The family went "home" on leave to England, travelling on the HMT Empire Windrush. When her parents returned to Asia, she stayed, boarding at Mickledene...
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    Jones, physicist and Scientific Intelligence Expert Sam Beaver King, HMT Empire Windrush passenger and Mayor of Southwark Marie Loftus, music hall artiste...
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  • ships to Empire troop ships. These included Empire Fowey, Empire Halladale, Empire Ken, Empire Orwell, Empire Trooper and Empire Windrush. Empire Comfort...
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    she travelled from Trinidad to the United Kingdom, on board the HMT Empire Windrush. The voyage and the ship later became well-known because the other...
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    17th and 18th centuries; but it was not until the arrival of the HMT Empire Windrush, on 22 June 1948, that significant numbers of Caribbeans, in particular...
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