Records of the Empire Windrush Celebrations

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Reference code(s): LBL/CE/PR/1/1-9

Title: Records of the Empire Windrush Celebrations

Date(s): 1988 - 1988

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Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1 box

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Name of creator(s): Lambeth Borough Council

Administrative/Biographical history: Records were created by the Chief Executive of the Public Relations Department of the Lambeth Borough Council. The materials were gathered during the production of the booklet 40 Winters On, which was created as part of Lambeth Council's celebrations in 1988, to commemorate the arrival of the SS Windrush.

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Scope and content: Collection consists of videos, newspaper clippings, printed memories, copy manuscript memoirs, photographs, manuscript entries from a creative writing competition.

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Interest: Caribbean

Specific group: African-Caribbean peoples

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African-Caribbean peoples

Immigration

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Windrush, SS Empire

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Lambeth, London, United Kingdom