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Bishop Wilfred Wood
Wilfred Wood is a Bajan Anglican priest who became the first Black Bishop of Croydon in 1985. He was a leading anti-racist campaigner and advocate for racial justice in Britain for four decades, from 1962 to 2002. Bishop Wilfred retired to Barbados in 2003 and continues to live there. On 15th June 2026 Bishop Wilfred…
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The Story of Britain’s Black Nurses
This new children’s book: The Story of Britain’s Black Nurses by Bajan author Kandace Chimbiri was published by Scholastic on 26th September 2024. The publication of The Story of Britain’s Black Nurses coincides with the start of Black History Month in the UK on 1st October. This book which is illustrated by Jael Umerah-Makelemi and…
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Windrush 75 – Pioneers & Champions
The HMT Empire Windrush is best remembered for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean to the UK in June 1948. The ship’s name is used to denote what in the UK is known as the Windrush Generation. These are the estimated 500,000 Commonwealth citizens who immigrated from…
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Freya Stark (married name: Perowne)
Dame Freya Madeline Stark DBE (31 January 1893 – 9 May 1993), was a British explorer and travel writer. She was the wife of the Barbados Colonial Secretary Stewart Perowne and was one of five passengers who travelled in May 1948 from Barbados to Trinidad to join the Empire Windrush for its historic passage to…
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Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? The Empire Windrush story
Only five of the 1,027 passengers on board the Empire Windrush began their journey in Barbados. Bill Hern writes about them here and explodes some myths about the iconic ship and its historic journey to England in June 1948. Background:The Windrush scandal erupted in 2018 where people mainly of Caribbean descent were wrongly classified as…
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Tag: Windrush
We honour the Windrush generation of West Indians who answered the late Queen and her father’s call after World War II to come to Britain’s aid and help with the post-war rebuilding effort of the 1950s and 1960s, which shaped modern Britain.