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What was the Empire Windrush ?

What was the Empire Windrush ?. WALT Assess the impact of the Windrush WILF Select information from one particular source Analyse the information about the Windrush Answer two exam questions Peer assess each others work using the mark scheme. Reasons:.

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What was the Empire Windrush ?

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  1. What was the Empire Windrush? • WALT • Assess the impact of the Windrush • WILF • Select information from one particular source • Analyse the information about the Windrush • Answer two exam questions • Peer assess each others work using the mark scheme

  2. Reasons: • Britain needed a large number of workers to help rebuild war damaged cities • To work in factories in order to get peacetime economies going again • Run London transport + new National Health system.

  3. So.... • Government set up recruiting agencies in Ireland, in refugee camps and in the West Indies. • Throughout this period, the extent of immigration increased dramatically from places such as the Caribbean, India, Pakistan and Uganda. • The causes of this trend can be organised into 5 main factors.

  4. 1. Who was the oldest person travelling on this page? How old was she? 2. Who was the youngest person travelling? How old was he? How old would he be now? 3. How many families with children are listed here? How many adults are travelling alone? 4. Which ports did the Empire Windrush call at on its journey to London? (Clue: Look at the top right hand corner of the sheet!) 5. Look at the lists of the jobs that the passengers did. Write down any that you do not understand, and then look them up in a dictionary. 6. There is no key to explain what ‘HD’ means in the jobs list. Look at the people who are labelled ‘HD’. What do they have in common? What do you guess it might stand for? 7. How many of the migrants on these pages were planning to live in London? Which other places do migrants plan to live in?

  5. What was the Windrush?The Empire Windrush'svoyage from the Caribbean to Tilbury took place in 1948. Believe it or not, very few of the migrants intended to stay in Britain for more than a few years.If it hadn't been for the Second World War, the Windrush and her passengers might not have made the voyage at all. During the war, thousands of Caribbean men and women had been recruited to serve in the armed forces.When the Windrush stopped in Jamaica to pick up servicemen who were on leave from their units, many of their former comrades decided to make the trip in order to rejoin the RAF. More adventurous spirits, mostly young men, who had heard about the voyage and simply fancied coming to see England, 'the mother country', doubled their numbers.

  6. An important landmark in the history of modern Britain June 22nd 1948, the day that the Windrush discharged its passengers at Tilbury, has become an important landmark in the history of modern Britain; and the image of the Caribbeans filing off its gangplank has come to symbolise many of the changes which have taken place here. Caribbean migrants have become a vital part of British society and, in the process, transformed important aspects of British life.In 1948,Britain was just beginning to recover from the ravages of war. Housing was a huge problem and stayed that way for the next two decades. There was plenty of work, but the Caribbeans first clashed with the natives over the issue of accommodation. But alongside the conflicts and the discrimination, another process was taking place.Excluded from much of the social and economic life around them, they began to adjust the institutions they brought with them - the churches, and a co-operative method of saving called the 'pardner' system. At the same time, Caribbeans began to participate in institutions to which they did have access: trade unions, local councils, and professional and staff associations.

  7. Read some of the passengers recounts of their journey:http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/arrival_01.shtml

  8. Was it only the Windrush ship that bought Caribbeans to Britain? No. The arrival of the Windrush was the start of a period of migration from the Caribbean to Britain that did not slow down until 1962. By 1955, 18,000 Jamaicans had moved to Britain. This outward flow of people to settle in Britain was an important event in the history of the West Indies. It also changed the social landscape of Britain.

  9. Key People Idi Amin ; Military dictator who was President of Uganda 1971-79 In 1972 he expelled all of his country’s 50,000 Asians and most of them came to Britain

  10. In 1967 President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya gave all Kenyan Asians two years to become Kenyan citizens or leave. Around 20,000 left and used their British passports to come to Britain

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