Marked Tilbury

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Windrush and modern Britain

On 22 June 1948 the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury with hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean. Over the next decades people from the Caribbean, South Asia and Africa rebuilt post-war Britain, and faced racism, and in 2018 the Windrush scandal.

Place
Tilbury · Brixton · Notting Hill · Bristol · SouthallEurope, The Americas, Asia
Laid out as
A migrationPeople on the move: where they set out from, where they went, and what they found.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

From Tilburyto Southall

  1. ITilbury, 1948
  2. IIBuilding the NHS and the buses
  3. IIINotting Hill, 1958
  4. IVThe Bristol bus boycott
  5. VFrom South Asia
  6. VIThe Windrush scandal

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Sam King
  • Claudia Jones
  • Paul Stephenson
  • Jayaben Desai
  • Lilian Bader

Objects

  • The Windrush passenger list
  • Carnival costumes

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1948 to now. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?