Before Windrush: West Indians in Britain

West Indians have been coming to Britain for over 300 years, so the arrival of around 500 Caribbean passengers on the boat Empire Windrush in 1948 wasn’t new. This book records the experiences of twenty-eight early West Indian immigrants including Norman Manley (former premier of Jamaica), Learie Constantine (Trinidadian cricketer), Una Marson (Jamaican activist and writer), and CLR James (Trinidadian historian and journalist). Other less well-known figures also make the cut like the artist’s model Fanny Eaton, nurse Annie Brewster, football player Andrew Watson, and airman Billy Strachan. Their stories are interspersed with poems by Asher Hoyles.

Format: Paperback

Paperback: 156 Pages

Language: English