June 22 marks the 75th anniversary of the landing of HMT Empire Windrush, a passenger liner and cruise ship which carried 800 Caribbean migrants to the UK.
The British Nationality Act, which came into effect in 1948, provided citizenship to members of the British Empire. People from the British commonwealth saw the legislation as an opportunity to find work and better their lives, and over the following two decades, as many as half a million people arrived in the UK – a large proportion of whom came from the Caribbean.
