Lord Kitchener steps off the Empire Windrush

22 June 1948: Number 11 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of world and folk musicWhen the Empire Windrush docked at Southampton, a new Britain was born. On board was the first wave of West Indian guest workers, answering a British government advertisement for cheap transport to the mother country to fill the postwar labour shortage.The seeds of multicultural Britain were duly sewn. Further down the line lay the Notting Hill riots of 1958, Joe Harriott at Ronnie Scott's, the Notti...

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