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This year marks seventy-five years since the original Windrush arrival. Here, we look at UK installations, talks and workshops that honour the anniversary.

Pore over family documents such as birth certificates and old passports, photographs and heirlooms, however trinket-like they might seem. Family history requires research in its broadest sense.

The 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving at Tilbury Docks in 1948, bringing hundreds of passengers, is celebrated this year.

To take you lied to the house of commons where rishi sunak will be receiving questions from his opposition bench and other mps in the house. i opposition bench and other mps in the house. ~ .., ., opposition bench and other mps in the house. ~ ., ., for ukraine. as we mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the empire windrush yesterday, im sure the whole house will celebrate the contribution of the windrush generation, who have done so much to build the britain that we cherish today. and th...

Marking the anniversary of the Empire Windrush docking at Tilbury, the hour-long programme will tell the story of those who left the Caribbean for a new life in Britain

Is the first time theyve spoken about it publicly. i did feel, and i still do, we was abandoned. we were left. in 1966, 12 years after he arrived in britain from the caribbean island of st kitts, junes father, joseph armatrading, was repatriated after being hospitalised due to a mental illness. his wife and five daughters never saw him again. really sad because... oh, sorry. but its only in the course of our researching this story thatjune has learned the truth about what happened to him, includ...

The bbc has uncovered evidence, showing that hundreds of chronically sick and mentally ill people, who came to the uk as part of the windrush generation, were sent back to the caribbean — in what the government has admitted was a case of �*historic injustice. legal experts have told the bbc... that the practice of sending patients back to their countries of birth during the 1950s, 60s and 70s may have been unlawful. families are now demanding an investigation, as our correspondent nav—tej ...

To send patients back largely due to pressure on bed5, giving the impression that this was being done regardless of whether adequate treatment was available. lawyerjacqueline mckenzie has represented hundreds of victims of the windrush scandal. she and other legal experts weve spoken to questioned the legality of the practice. i think this is worse than the windrush scandal, insofar as... well, its part of the windrush scandal, but its the most egregious element of it. the state now owe5 it to t...

The windrush scandal, insofar as... well, its part of the windrush scandal, but its the most egregious element of it. the state now owes it to the descendants of people who were affected to provide them with answers and some sort of redress. in a statement, a government spokesperson said it recognised the campaigning of families seeking to address the historic injustice faced by their loved ones and were committed to righting the wrongs faced by those in the windrush generation. the law has chan...

But its only in the course of our researching this story that june has learned the truth about what happened to him, including that he wanted to return to his family and that mistakes were made in his case by the uk government. how dare they? this was a vulnerable man. youre supposed to look after your vulnerable people. and they didnt, theyjust left him. they abandoned him. marcias mother, another member of the windrush generation, was also sent back from britain on mental health grounds around...