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Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation – collaborative approach reveals the people behind the paintings

Scotland’s first Black professor, Sir Godfrey Palmer, described the Windrush: Portraits of a Pioneering Generation exhibition as “an acknowledgement that we are the same people…

mingooland · October 20, 2023 · 5 min read

How the fashion of the Windrush generation shaped British style

The outfits that new Caribbean arrivals to Britain wore as they disembarked the HMT Empire Windrush – and all the other boats that followed –…

mingooland · June 16, 2023 · 5 min read

Windrush compensation scheme: how the UK government is failing its citizens with this ‘belittling and horrible’ process

The Windrush scheme was set up in 2018 to provide documentary confirmation of British citizenship and residency rights for the Windrush generation and other commonwealth…

mingooland · June 3, 2023 · 8 min read