The photographs have been digitised and can be viewed on Digital.Bodleian here: MS. Two photographs from ‘The Black House’ series feature in the Hyman Collection of British Photographs, which was donated to the Bodleian in 2019. The story of the series of the British Caribbean adolescents is ‘one of the most profound portraits of Black urban life in Seventies Britain’. Jones and Gillman set about to create a photographic record of everyday life in the house. The name of the series comes from the name given to the hostel by those who frequented the halfway house, officially named ‘Harambee ’, who knew it as ‘the Black House’. The hostel was a refuge for young black British people who were victims of prejudice, unemployed and had problems with the law. Photojournalist Colin Jones, together with journalist Peter Gillman of the Sunday Times, created a photo-series focused on a community hostel run by Caribbean migrant Herman Edwards at 571 Holloway Road, London during the 1970s. ‘The Black House’, 1973-1976, photographic series by Colin Jones Image Credit: Sayers Collection of Ocean Liner Ephemera, ZB19 Empire Windrush Divine Service In 2016 the J ohn Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera received the donation of the Sayers Collection of Ocean Liner Ephemera, which holds some material relating to the ship’s other voyages.Īn order for a Divine Service given on board. Empire Windrush to their new home numbered tens of thousands. Reports of numbers of arrivals on that first day vary between 500-1000 Caribbean men and women, but immigration from the colonies continued into the 1950s whereby the new British citizens who had travelled aboard H.M.T. On this Caribbean journey the ship picked up passengers in Trinidad, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico and Bermuda. The first generation of settlers arrived in Tilbury Docks, 22 June 1948, aboard the Empire Windrush ship (previously called ‘Monte Rosa’, before the British renamed it). Empire Windrush, and the 70 year anniversary of 2018. To mark Windrush Day, we thought we would have a look in our Archives and Modern Manuscripts to highlight some items related to the ship H.M.T. The day is also a call to acknowledge and reflect on the hardships and sacrifice endured by the huge number of brave people who responded to the British call to colonies to migrate to Britain, assist in her recovery from World War Two and build a life here. Wednesday 22 June 2022 is Windrush Day in the United Kingdom, celebrating the contributions of Afro-Caribbean migrants and their descendants to British culture, economy and society.
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