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SUMMARY:Windrush Women's Space: a multimedia presentation of 18 Collingham
  Gardens\, 1945-1970 - Nicholas Boston\, The City University of New York (
 CUNY)\, Lehman College
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CONTACT:Bert Vaux
DESCRIPTION:On 22 June\, the UK will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the
  arrival of the Empire Windrush. This wartime ship has given its name to a
 n entire generation of people who migrated from the Caribbean to Britain b
 etween 1948 and 1973. The Windrush story tends to be an androcentric one\,
  beginning with the detail that over 200 male Empire Windrush passengers w
 ere accommodated temporarily in a former air raid shelter beneath Clapham 
 Common\, London\, leading to neighouring Brixton blossoming into a Black e
 nclave. But\, what about Windrush women’s beginnings? The Clapham shelte
 r is crucially central to the origin story of the Windrush generation as r
 egards space and place\, however\, it cannot tell us anything about the ex
 periences of women. This multimedia presentation focuses on the Victoria L
 eague Colonial Girls’ Club\, an all-female residence founded in 1945 at 
 18 Collingham Gardens S.W.5\, a garden square in Earl’s Court\, London. 
 For a quarter century\, 18 Collingham Gardens was the address at which tho
 usands of Caribbean and Commonwealth women resided\, either temporarily or
  long term\, when they came to the UK as settlers\, students\, or sojourne
 rs.
LOCATION:Audit Room\, King's College
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