Community Engagement: Black History Month 2023
Community Engagement: Black History Month – October 2023 Community outreach and public engagement is, and has been, an important aspect of the Windrush Scandal in a Transnational and Commonwealth Context project with activities taking place across the year. In...
Learning from the Windrush Scandal Oral History Archives
This summer Destinie Reynolds, a History and Spanish student at the University of Manchester, completed a three-month internship with our History & Policy research team. Below, Destinie shares her experience of working on the AHRC-funded oral history project...
Beyond Windrush: Setting a Path for a Future UK-Caribbean Partnership
What do you do when a special day (plus hashtag) is created to contain centuries of so-called “hostile environment” treatment? Do you celebrate it, accept official funds for special events, laud the special events, stamps and other paraphernalia and then allow the...
From Windrush to Climate Justice: Joining the Dots for the Future
The original article for this piece was written by Debbie Ransome, web editor for the Commonwealth Round Table, and can be accessed here. Historians from the UK, the Caribbean and across the Commonwealth can cite centuries of evidence to show that what is today...
Windrush Scandal ‘has roots in Enoch Powell’s politics’
Rivers of Blood claim made as new evidence emerges of Windrush deportations from the 1950s to 1970s. THE WINDRUSH scandal has its roots in Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech, a campaigner and academic has said. This article was originally published in The Voice...
Remembering Windrush
A day-long conference on the Windrush Scandal, which saw some members of the long-established community in Britain denied citizenship, detained and in some cases deported, will take place in Senate House on 19th June 2023 and reflect on a significant research...
The Windrush Scandal in a Transnational & Commonwealth Context
June 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks, bringing with it over 500 passengers from the Caribbean. It will be a time of celebration of the longer history of the presence of people of Afro-Caribbean heritage in the...
Anger as Home Secretary fails Windrush Scandal Survivors
Read the original post in History & Policy. This week, the Home Secretary Suella Braverman provided the UK parliament with an update on the government’s delivery of recommendations as outlined in the 2020 Windrush Lessons Learned Review. This included the...
More than a Hostile Environment: The Windrush Scandal, Diplomacy and the Commonwealth Caribbean
This presentation will examine the responses of Caribbean High Commissioners, government representatives, legal specialists and scholars on the restrictions imposed on immigration from the Caribbean to the United Kingdom from the early 1960s until the present day....
