Homecoming Paperback Paddington Street scene at Covent Garden

Street scene at Covent Garden with underground Station and horse and cart in the background

Two buses and a number of hansom cabs are shown

miasmas and malaria

takes readers on an unforgettable journey along the Thames’ foreshore

Homecoming Paperback Paddington Street scene at Covent GardenHomecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation by Colin Grant draws on over a hundred first hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. In their own words, we witness the transition from the optimism of the first post war arrivals to the race riots of the late 1950s. We hear from nurses in Manchester; bus drivers in Bristol; seamstresses in