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January 2nd, 2024, 12:47 AM | #6721 | ||||
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According to the Pathé news footage at the time, many of the Caribbean passengers aboard the Empire Windrush were "ex-servicemen who know England". Quote:
So this does fit in with your point that these West Indians were seeking employment, and other West Indians did likewise, seeing Britain as the "mother country". Two days after the Windrush docked, a group of 11 Labour MPs wrote to Prime Minister Clement Attlee calling for a halt to the "influx of coloured people". Attlee's reply, which is available to view in the National Archives (and posted below), said that "it would be a great mistake to take the emigration of this Jamaican party to the United Kingdom too seriously". You will note Mr Atlee's letter states how foreign labour is being imported "in large numbers". I believe I stated in an earlier post how the London Transport (LT) museum has a section on how they recruited from the Caribbean.... Quote:
https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collectio...an-recruitment In 1956, Charles Gomm was dispatched to Barbados to recruit men and women as drivers, conductors and canteen staff, at the invitation of the Barbadian government. Here is Mr Gomm interviewing Barbadian applicants for LT jobs, circa 1956.... Here is Mr Gomm interviewing the first group of Caribbean applicants for work with London Transport, (1956). Pictures courtesy of London Transport Museum. From 1956 to 1970 LT recruited about 6,000 employees directly from the Caribbean to the UK. LT’s direct recruitment in Barbados continued until 1970, having also been extended to include Jamaica and Trinidad. As for the NHS: As early as 1949 the Ministries of Health and Labour, in conjunction with the Colonial Office, the General Nursing Council and the Royal College of Nursing launched campaigns to recruit hospital staff directly from the Caribbean. Recruitment was aimed at three main categories of worker: hospital auxiliary staff, nurses or trainee nurses, and domestic workers. Senior NHS staff from Britain travelled to the Caribbean to recruit, and vacancies were often published in local papers. In 1949, the Barbados Beacon advertised for nursing auxiliaries to work in hospitals across Britain; applicants were to be aged between 18 and 30, literate, and willing to commit to a three-year contract. By 1955 there were official nursing recruitment programmes across 16 British colonies and former colonies. Over the next two decades, the British colonies and former colonies provided a constant supply of cheap labour to meet staffing shortages in the NHS, By the end of 1965, there were 3,000-5,000 Jamaican nurses working in British hospitals, many of them concentrated in London and the Midlands. It has been estimated that by 1972, 10,566 students had been recruited from abroad, and that by 1977 overseas recruits represented 12 per cent of the student nurse and midwife population in Britain, of which 66 per cent came from the Caribbean. Extracted from: https://www.historyandpolicy.org/pol...o-the-forefron And the NHS are still recruiting from the Caribbean today - the following is from the St. Vincent Times, dated 13 April, 2023: Quote:
https://www.stvincenttimes.com/a-lea...an-for-talent/ The problem as you state is that Britain's need for a workforce is not recorded in the Press or in Hansard.
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January 3rd, 2024, 09:59 PM | #6722 | |
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There's certainly no evidence of sub-Saharan African DNA, but there is ancient DNA evidence that the first post-Ice Age inhabitants of Northern Europe were from the Mediterranean; see the excellent book by Harvard palaeogeneticist David Reich: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Who-Are-How...4322112&sr=8-1 These humans would have been the same colour as, say, people in Sardinia or Southern France, i.e. darker than the UK average now, although probably not much darker once they were in colder latitudes. The early farmers expanded from the Middle East between 11500 and 5500 years ago and these were the builders of Stonehenge roughly 5000 years ago (see Fig. 14a in Reich). Presumably they would have looked fairly similar, i.e. darker and more olive in complexion than modern Northern Europeans, but not particularly so. Roughly 500 years later the IndoEuropean speakers arrived, bringing war (presumably, given the change in Y chromosomes seen in Western Europe) and plague (yersinia pestis being found in their jaw remains). The above is an oversimplification of Reich's Chapter 5, "The Making of Modern Europe". |
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February 7th, 2024, 07:43 AM | #6723 |
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I was wondering if one of our fellow British friends can define what "antiquing" means in the UK.
Heard a lot of definitions, but want to know for sure. Cheerios!
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Never heard it before. I've just checked and it explains why. It says it's an American expression for someone collecting antiques.
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What I've heard is that it is British slang for a prank that guys to friends where they throw white powder or something in another guy's face while they're sleeping. Wanna make sure that's the right meaning before I start using the term.
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There is a slightly dodgy meaning as well: 'antiqueing' in some circumstances means the deliberate artificial ageing of items such as jewellery, furniture, items of clothing, and other household items in order to present them dishonestly as being much older and earlier than their true age and/or era-to command a higher sale price. In other words a degree of fakery -notwithstanding that the items themselves may be genuine.
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But it's one of those examples of the relatively recent horrible trend for turning any old noun into a verb (e.g. "gifting"). |
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