African and Caribbean People in Britain - A History

African and Caribbean People in Britain - A HistoryDespite the best efforts of researchers and campaigners, there remains today a steadfast tendency to reduce the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story: it is one that begins in 1948 with the arrival of a single ship, the Empire Windrush, and continues mostly apart from a distinct British history, overlapping only on occasion amid grotesque injustice or pioneering protest. Yet, as acclaimed historian Hakim Adi

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historical and political factors that have left us where we are today

Two plates which depict the areas around Moorfields and the City are in the Museum of London and a third plate

Each itinerary is described in detail with a series of points of interest also pinpointed on an accompanying route map

slow decline set in

and made her maiden voyage to New Zealand on 15 February

The West India docks are on the right

after sailing 2 million miles

the first suffragette window smashers

Photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky explored working-class neighbourhoods and the effects of the decline of long-established industries such as mining and steel

ice cream and confectionery shops

Ducrow in the Character of the Wild Indian Hunter on two rapid coursers in the Circle at the Royal Amphitheatre'