
Windrush is a 4-part series of one hour television documentaries originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the arrival in Britain of the Empire Windrush, the ship which brought the first wave of post-war West Indian immigrants.
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Air Date: 1998-05-30
This part follows the initial warm reception, the growing sense of rejection and isolation, and the first flash point...
Air Date: 1998-06-06
The 1959 Notting Hill riots saw the murder of Kelso Cochrane, the first acknowledged racial killing in Britain. But t...
Air Date: 1998-06-13
Focusing on the education of black children, their search for an identity through their music and lifestyle, and the ...
Air Date: 1998-06-20
The 1990s saw the emergence of a new black British identity, with black peers in the House of Lords and black celebri...