This year marks the 75th anniversary of Windrush, the generation of people who responded to the government’s invitation to come from the Caribbean to post-war Britain between 1948 and 1971. In this week’s NLJ, Pauline Campbell pays tribute to some of the many people who came to the UK, pre-Windrush and as part of the Windrush Generation.
They include Trinidadian George Roberts, a veteran of WWI and Home Guard volunteer during WWII, and Lilian Bader, born in Liverpool with a Barbadian father, who worked on Airspeed Oxford light bombers.
Campbell, author and senior litigation lawyer at the London Borough of Waltham Forest, revisits a 1944 court case on the ‘colour bar’ in England, as well as providing historical context, and recalls how her own parents arrived from Jamaica.
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