British Jamaicans are British people who were born in Jamaica or who are of Jamaican descent. The community is well into its third generation and consists of around 300,000 individuals, the second-lar
Jamaican passengers disembark the HMT Empire Windrush at the Port of Tilbury, June 1948
Scotch bonnet peppers imported from the Caribbean on sale at London's Brixton Market. The peppers are a key ingredient of "Jerk" dishes
Former Liverpool and England striker Daniel Sturridge, who was born in Birmingham to Jamaican parents
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
British Jamaicans
…government looked to its overseas colonies for help and encouraged migration in an effort to fill the many job vacancies. Jamaicans, alongside other Caribbean, African and South Asian groups, moved in their hundreds of thousands to the United Kingdom. Almost half of all the men who came from the Caribbean to…
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.