Caribbean Portrait Collection
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Windrush75: Waves and Reflections
Today marks exactly 75 years since the HMS Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury heralding a generation of West Indian immigration to the UK. Whilst my grandparents arrived in the UK from Trinidad as part of that movement of people, I’ve recently discovered that a distant cousin of my grandmother was on board the Windrush itself.…
President Kangaloo: The Legacy of Our Ancestress
Earlier this month, Christine Kangaloo was sworn in as President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, only the second woman to hold this post. Whilst I have never met Christine, she is in fact a distant relative of mine. Her family history is very much intertwined with my own; her grandmother Esther Kangaloo was…
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