Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation Audiobook (Free)

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When Colin Offer was developing up in Luton in the 1960s, he learned never to ask his Jamaican parents why they had emigrated to Britain. ‘We’re here because we’re right here,’ his father would say. ‘You involve some place else to look?’

However now, seventy years after the entrance of ships like the Windrush, this generation of pioneers are ready to tell their tales.

Homecoming draws on over 100 first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and guys about Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation who came to Britain through the West Indies between the late 1940s and the first 1960s. Within their very own words, we witness the transition from your optimism of the initial post-war arrivals towards the competition riots from the past due 1950s. We listen to from nurses in Manchester; bus drivers in Bristol; seamstresses in Birmingham; instructors in Croydon; dockers in Cardiff; inter-racial lovers in Great Wycombe, and Carnival Queens in Leeds. They are stories of wish and regret, of triumphs and issues, brimming with humour, anger and wisdom. Together, they reveal a wealthy tapestry of Caribbean United kingdom lives.

Homecoming is an unforgettable family portrait of a generation, which brilliantly illuminates an important and much-misunderstood chapter of our background.