Book Suggestion: Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings ­­- a Windrush Story It is 1948 and post-war Britain is on her knees. The call has gone out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the country and young men and women from across the Caribbean have been quick to respond, paying the considerable sum of £28.10 shillings to board the ‘ship of dreams’ that will take them to their new lives.

Book Suggestion: Twenty-Eight Pounds Ten Shillings ­­- a Windrush Story: It is 1948 and post-war Britain is on her knees. The call has gone out to the British Empire for volunteers to help rebuild the country and young men and… #Isles #postwarBritain #Britainknees #kneesBritish #Empirevolunteers