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Nhs article guardian date figures worksheet corrected. Windrush Child study questions corrected. Article guardian migrants nhs correction .docx. Windrush Child By John Agard study questions. Windrush child poemby john agard lyrics. Windrush generation: Who are they and why are they facing problems? Windrush Day has been held on 22 June since 2018, to celebrate the contribution Caribbean migrants and their families have made to the UK. HMT Empire Windrush docked in Tilbury, Essex, in 1948, bringing hundreds of passengers from the Caribbean to the UK.

In 2018, it emerged that the government had not properly recorded the details of people granted permission to stay in the UK, and many were wrongly mistreated. What is the Windrush generation? HMT Empire Windrush became a symbol of a wider mass-migration movement. People in the Caribbean were invited to the UK to help rebuild post-war Britain. According to the National Archives, which holds the ship's passenger list, there were 1,027 people on board. Several hundred passengers were Jamaican, but others arrived from islands including Trinidad, St Lucia, Grenada and Barbados. These travellers - and those on other ships which came to the UK until 1971 - became known as the Windrush generation. Why did the Windrush generation come to Britain? BBC pamphlet, Going To Britain? © BBC copyright content reproduced courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved. Permitted use is for the purposes of private study and non-commercial education and research purposes under general UK copyright exceptions only.

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David Muirhead: Crown Copyright, this material has been published under an Open Government Licence. How migrants helped make the NHS guardian article .docx. Article nhs comprehension questions .docx. Nhs article guardian date figures worksheet. CNN Video migrants grid .docx. Who are the Windrush generation? The British Empire through time - KS3 History - BBC Bitesize.

The British Empire through time - Revision 6 - KS3 History - BBC Bitesize. From slavery to Windrush: My family's story (Full Documentary) BBC News. Theresa May apologises for treatment of Windrush generation. Calypso and the birth of British black music. Fashioned out of a collective Commonwealth-comes-to-Britain experience, London calypso was always more that just a Saturday night feelgood soundtrack. Lloyd Bradley explores how the genre embraced social commentary, biting satire and a stock-in-trade bawdiness. When Calypsonian Lord Kitchener stepped from the gangplank of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury, he barely had a chance to feel Mother England beneath his feet before a microphone was shoved into his face. The coterie of English reporters waiting for the new arrivals from the Caribbean knew to look out for this imposing, snappily-dressed figure, whom they’d been told was a bit of a singer.

Never one to pass up an opportunity, Kitch, unaccompanied and apparently ad-libbing, broke into song: London, is the place for me London, this lovely city, You can go to France or America, India, Asia or Australia But you must come back to London city Origins and themes Even before Lord Kitchener came down the Windrush gangplank there was calypso.

Jamaica timeline. A chronology of key events: 1494 - Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica. 1509 - Jamaica occupied by the Spaniards under a licence from Columbus's son; much of the indigenous Arawak community dies off from exposure to European diseases; African slaves brought in to work on the sugar plantations. 1655 - Jamaica is captured by the British. 1670 - Jamaica formally ceded to the British in accordance with the Treaty of Madrid. 1692 - Port Royal, once the busiest trading centre of the British West Indies and infamous for general debauchery, is devastated by an earthquake. 1838 - Slavery abolished. 1865 - The British ruthlessly put down the Morant Bay rebellion, staged by freed slaves in response to acute hardship, and force the local legislature to surrender its powers; Jamaica becomes a crown colony. 1870 - Banana plantations set up as the sugar cane industry declines in the face of competition from European beet sugar. 1884 - New constitution marks the initial revival of local autonomy.

Independence. One of us? Windrush - History of the BBC. Professor David Hendy Professor of Media and Cultural History, University of Sussex The Empire Windrush’s arrival at Tilbury Docks on 22 June 1948 - and the disembarkation of the 492 men who had travelled on it from the West Indies - was captured in newsreel images and sounds that have since become iconic: Yet, Windrush wasn’t always as prominent in the nation’s consciousness as it is today. Even on its arrival, the BBC Home Service reported on the day’s events in a noticeably subdued manner - as these news bulletin scripts from 22 June 1948 reveal: The former troopship Empire Windrush, arrived in the Thames last night with the five hundred West Indians who have come to work in this country. Questions have been asked in the Commons about the wisdom of letting them travel.Fifty of them want to join the Royal Air Force or the Army. More than two hundred have friends here to whom they can go with a prospect of employment, and they will be given free travel.

Now there were new challenges. How Caribbean migrants helped to rebuild Britain. After World War Two, Britain was a country short of workers and needed to rebuild its weakened economy. Linda McDowell traces the history and experiences of the thousands of men and women who came to Britain from the Caribbean to work in sectors including manufacturing, public transport and the NHS. When the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury from the Caribbean on 22 June 1948, Britain, with its new reforming Labour government, was a country short of workers.

Men and women were needed to rebuild an economy weakened by the war years, especially in those sectors ocrucial to the reconstruction programme. These included the production of raw materials such as iron, steel and coal, as well as food. There was also a huge backlog of essential maintenance and repair work and severe shortages in the construction sector. In the service sector, both men and women workers were needed to run public transport and to staff the new National Health Service (NHS). Patients too were too often difficult: Windrush Day 2019: What's it all about? - CBBC Newsround. Windrush generation: Who are they and why are they facing problems? A love letter to Notting Hill carnival: 'It keeps our culture alive’ – video | Culture. BBC Poetry Season - Zephaniah and students perform The British.

John Agard - Windrush Child. White Teeth by Zadie Smith | Books. Zadie Smith appears to be keeping her feet on the ground - and in earthy Willesden too - but heaven knows how. Her debut novel, White Teeth (Hamish Hamilton, £12.99) has received an astonishing chorus of praise. Smith, a 24-year-old just out of Cambridge, had been given a £250,000 advance and hailed as "the new Salman Rushdie" by her publisher.

"For once", said the usually testy Hugo Barnacle in the Sunday Times, "here is a Big New Literary Find that hasn't been oversold. " That was echoed everywhere. "Hamish Hamilton's publicists have made much of the fact that Smith is herself part of this entrepreneurial, multicultural Britain - she is young, she is half-Jamaican and she wrote the novel in quiet moments while revising for finals at Cambridge," wrote Melissa Denes in the Daily Telegraph. "But it would not matter if she were a he, white and the wrong side of 40: Smith can write.

Those much-mentioned Hamish Hamilton publicists will have no shortage of encomia for the paperback. James Berry - Windrush: Empire Day (2 of 6) James Berry Windrush (1 of 6) Jamaican English: Joseph talks about his first impressions of Sheffield on arrival from Jamaica in the 1950s. This recording is an example of a Jamaican accent and a speaker of Caribbean English. Jamaican accent Joseph talks with an instantly recognisable Jamaican accent. First of all, listen to the way he pronounces the <th> sounds in words in the following two lists: thing, anything, things, everything, with and thirty that, than, they’re, the, there, they, then, these and them In the first case he uses a <t> sound and in the second a <d> sound.

But he occasionally uses a more mainstream pronunciation, such as in the statement when I look around and see the houses, everything was in one and on the words thought and together. This demonstrates perfectly how individual speakers fluctuate naturally between features of local or popular speech and more prestigious forms. Dropping consonants Secondly, listen to the way Joseph pronounces words in the following two lists: around, detached and accept houses, home, how, helping, having and thirty-five-and-a-half H-dropping Spoken rhythms Jamaican grammar. The British (serves 60 million) - Benjamin Zephaniah. Fifty years on, what is the legacy of Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ speech? In the aftermath of Enoch Powell’s inflammatory 1968 “rivers of blood” speech, which split the nation and instantly became one of modern British history’s most divisive addresses, the fallout was swift and fierce.

Protesters took to the streets in support of Powell’s backing for the repatriation of immigrants. Denunciations appeared in newspaper editorials attacking his “appeal to racial hatred” and Powell himself was cast out of the Conservative shadow cabinet, effectively ending his political ambitions. Also caught up in the collateral damage, however, was a small school in his Wolverhampton constituency.

In the run-up to his speech, Powell made one of his most controversial claims – that a constituent had told him that his child was the only white pupil in their class. West Park primary school was not named, but with its high proportion of ethnic minority students it was soon labelled as the school in question. Newspapers began trying to speak to parents, staff and children. The Unwanted The Secret Windrush Files BBC Documentary on Caribbean Blacks mistreatment.

The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files review – who could feel proud of Britain after this? | Television & radio. As the Empire Windrush made its way from the Caribbean to Britain in 1948, politicians in Westminster were frantically scheming about how they could prevent a ship carrying hundreds of black immigrants from docking in the UK. The Labour prime minister Clement Attlee described it as an “incursion”. A meeting of the government’s economic policy committee discussed whether it might be possible to divert the ship to east Africa, and make its passengers (a well-qualified group of electricians, mechanics, welders and carpenters) take work there, picking peanuts. Eleven Labour MPs delivered a letter to Attlee warning that “an influx of coloured people” would “impair the harmony, strength and cohesion of our public and social life and cause discord and unhappiness among all concerned”. Anyone who thought that the introduction of the hostile environment was one of Theresa May’s few clear, tangible accomplishments will need to reconsider.

What is the Windrush Generation? - CBBC Newsround.