• Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (see also "Further Resources," below)
• Wole Soyinka, "Telephone Conversation" 
• Colin MacInnes, from City of Spades
• Story from NPR's Morning Edition (June 22, 1998) on the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush in England (RealAudio)

Ms Agatha Claudette Hart, bus conductor, at Stockwell Garage, March 1962.
London Transport Museum Picture Library (Ref. No. 24380)

• Louise Bennett, "Colonisation in Reverse"
• Gabriel Gbadamosi, "The Boat Passage" (from No Blacks, No Irish)
• George Lamming, "The Train" (from The Emigrants)
  
• Several pages from the BBC's now-defunct "Windrush Season" website have migrated elsewhere:
• Three poems by John Agard:  "Windrush Welcome" (click on the poem's title to hear Agard read it), "Remember the Ship," and "Uncle Mo Steps Out" (deleted)
• "Arrivals" (eight transcribed oral histories of Windrush passengers) and "Word a Mout'" (reminiscences of early immigrants in RealAudio--deleted)
• "What Is Windrush?" (introductory essay by Mike Phillips on blacks in Britain since 1948)
• Introductory Essay on Black British Literature by Onyekachi Wambu, editor of Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain

• Maps of West Indian settlement in London, 1958-59
• Newsreel footage of the Windrush arrival (Windows Media file; fast forward to 0:45)
• Philip Nanton, "London Calling" (Caribbean Beat Sep./Oct. 2004): a profile of the creator of "Caribbean Voices," a 1950s BBC radio program devoted to West Indian literature

• Lord Kitchener (Aldwyn Roberts), "London Is the Place For Me" (excerpt) (RealVideo: 56k modem (off-campus) | Ethernet (on-campus):  calypsonian Lord Kitchener being interviewed by Pathé Newsreel reporter upon disembarking from the S.S. "Empire Windrush," June 21, 1948)
• The Mighty Terror, "Women Police in England"

• James Berry, "Afternoon Train"
• E. R. Braithwaite, excerpts from To Sir, With Love
• Stuart Hall, "Calypso Kings" (The Guardian 28 June 2002):  Hall reviews the history of calypso in Britain in the 1950s
• Calypso in Britain ("Calypso: A World Music," Historical Museum of Southern Florida)

Further Resources

• On and related to Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners:
• Bio-bibliography of Sam Selvon (World Literatures in English)
• Interactive map of the "Bayswater" neighborhood of London
• Interactive map of London (select "London, UK" from the "International Cities" pull-down menu, then click "Go"; Bayswater is roughly below the "A40-M" marker, if you want to zoom in on it)
• Onyekachi Wambu, "London on My Mind" (BBC Windrush Season), a critical essay on the seminal importance of The Lonely Londoners (deleted)
  
• On and related to George Lamming:
• George Lamming page (Postcolonial Studies, Emory University)
• George Lamming page (Postcolonial & Postimperial Literatures, Brown U)
• Christopher Laird interviews George Lamming (Banyan, 1989)