JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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Before Windrush: West Indians in Britain
Revelatory account of Caribbean immigration to Britain in the centuries before the Windrush generation’s arrival
PRE-RAPHAELITE MODEL: Porrtait of Fanny Eaton by Walter Fryer Stocks
MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster
DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world
DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together
IN RESPONSE to a call from the British government for workers to fill the gaps in Britain’s post-war labour shortage, the Empire Windrush brought the first large group of Caribbean people to Britain in 1948.
By 1973, nearly half a million had settled here. Working in the NHS, manufacturing and construction, transport and the postal service, each one was automatically a British subject and free to live and work in this country permanently.
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