The Windrush and the Empire

Task 17. What do you know about the following places or things:

The Empire Windrush*, Trinidad, Jamaica, Essex, Clapham, Notting Hill, Notting Hill Carnival, racial violence, Cross Channel ferry?

Task 18. Who are the following people: The Caribbean, West Indians?

Task 19. Answer the following questions:

1. What motives lay behind the British government’s decision to invite the people from the former colonies to live in Britain?

2. Describe the life of the post-war immigrants in Britain

3. What was the attitude of the British towards the immigrants?

4. How did the situation change in the following decades?