New Statesman: Recovering Windrush: The deep-sea hunt for a new monument to British history

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New Statesman: Recovering Windrush: The deep-sea hunt for a new monument to British history

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Recovering Windrush: The deep-sea hunt for a new monument to British history

About 23 nautical miles off the coast of Algeria, 2,800 metres beneath the surface of the Mediterranean sea, sleeps a monument to British history. The Empire Windrush, a ship that brought the first wave of Commonwealth Caribbean immigrants from Jamaica to Tilbury Docks in Essex on 22 June 1948, sign…

Patrick Vernon is a social commentator and campaigner and has been at the forefront of several high-profile campaigns on cultural heritage and social justice in the UK over the last decade. He has used experience in senior management in the voluntary and public sector plus his passion in for cultural history to develop new models of thinking around transformation changes in service development, equalities, innovative thinking for social change. He is a trained life coach and mediator where his experience and knowledge has been used for leadership development and public speaking from grass roots organisations to public and private bodies.