Windrush Day takes place on 22 June and commemorates Caribbean migrants arriving on the SS Empire Windrush at Tilbury Docks in London in 1948. Today is the fifth Windrush Day celebration.
Windrush Day is an opportunity to celebrate the Windrush generation and recognise the contributions and sacrifices the British Caribbean communities made to help rebuild Britain after World War II. It is also a chance to reflect upon the difficulties that the Windrush generation experienced then and now.
We highly recommend that you read the award-winning Windrush Child by Benjamin Zephaniah, available in the EPHS Lower Library. Find out more from the people who were there by reading Voices of the Windrush Generation by David Matthews, available to borrow from the Library, or visiting 'Windrush Stories' on the British Library website here. Check out the BBC Newsround website too by clicking here.
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