British African-Caribbean people or British Afro-Caribbean people are an ethnic group in the United Kingdom. They are British citizens or residents of recent Caribbean heritage who further trace much
Ridley Road Market in Dalston, London, which sells African-Caribbean music, textiles, and food including goat meat, yams, mangos and spices.
Photograph of Mary Seacole, taken for a carte de visite by Maull & Company in London (c.1873)
Barbadian and Trinidadian pilots in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War
In 1998, a public open space in Brixton, south London, was renamed Windrush Square to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the ship bringing one of the first large groups of West Indian migrants to the UK.
HMT Empire Windrush
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HMT Empire Windrush was a passenger motor ship that was launched in Germany in 1930 as the MV Monte Rosa. She was built as an ocean liner for the German shipping company Hamburg Süd. They used the shi
British African-Caribbean people
…is used to refer to people from across the former British Empire who migrated to Britain from the British Commonwealth, from 1948, with the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush, until 1 January 1973 when the Immigration Act 1971 was implemented on the same day as the UK's accession to the European Economic Community (EEC…
Empire Windrush
Monte Cervantes, one of Monte Rosa's sister ships, 1930
Monte Cervantes' engine room
A torpedo-equipped Bristol Beaufighter of 144 Squadron, an aircraft of the type the squadron used to attack Monte Rosa