{"id":16953,"date":"2022-04-13T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/?post_type=events&#038;p=16953"},"modified":"2022-04-28T11:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T10:31:36","slug":"a-black-life-lived-large-pearl-prescod-1920-1966-caribbean-british-actor-singer-activist","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/events\/a-black-life-lived-large-pearl-prescod-1920-1966-caribbean-british-actor-singer-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A Black life lived large&#8217; &#8211; Pearl Prescod, 1920-1966, Caribbean\/British actor, singer, activist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16962 img-responsive aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2-empire-windrush-post-604x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2-empire-windrush-post-604x340.jpg 604w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2-empire-windrush-post-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2-empire-windrush-post-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2-empire-windrush-post-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2-empire-windrush-post-270x152.jpg 270w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2-empire-windrush-post-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brh.org.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2-empire-windrush-post.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The arrival of the <i>Empire Windrush, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>which docked in Tilbury in June 1948, bringing 492 migrants from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands was part of the large scale migration of British Commonwealth citizens from\u00a0 the Caribbean that lasted until the 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act instituted racist controls on their entry to the UK. The <i>Empire Windrush<\/i> and the &#8216;Windrush generation&#8217;, as they have been labelled, particularly since the scandal exposed in 2018,\u00a0are now becoming part of mainstream British history; talking up universal loyalty to Britain and the Empire, whilst playing down the background of independence, anti-racist and class struggles occurring at the time, in the Caribbean and beyond.\u00a0In this talk Colin Prescod, debunks this skewed &#8216;Windrusherie&#8217; through a case study of his mother, Pearl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Looking back over Pearl Prescod\u2019s life &#8211; from colonial origins in Trinidad and Tobago, through personal and political struggles to survive against the odds in Britain in the late 1950s, to brief breakout professional success in the early 1960s &#8211; Colin Prescod situates her in the wider community of performing artists and intellectuals who came from the West Indies\/Caribbean to reside and work in Britain in the two decades immediately after the second great inter-imperialist war of the 20th century, 1939 to 1945. In doing so he reassesses the cultural &#8216;rebel intervention\u2019 of what is now casually referred to as the Windrush Generation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival of the Empire Windrush, which docked in Tilbury in June 1948, bringing 492 migrants from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago and other islands was part of the large scale migration of British Commonwealth citizens from\u00a0 the Caribbean that lasted until the 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act instituted racist controls on their entry to the UK. 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