Windrush Cricket: an oral history project in east London

While the Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the project's activities to engage with the local communities at a number of events throughout the summer, the team has been able to divert resources towards the collection of oral histories amongst Hackney residents and beyond.

They will build new relationships with Windrush generation communities in Hackney by using online means of communication and telephone interviews, producing new histories of migration and settlement through the lens of cricket. 

Curating and preserving cultural heritage for the local community, the UCL team will use these oral histories, as well as photographs and other memorabilia collected and recorded as part of the project, to produce a Hackney-focused online exhibition.

Dr Michael Collins, the associate professor of modern British history at UCL who leads the project, will be working with two research assistants with Caribbean heritage for this: Montaz Marche and James Serieux.

Learn more about the project on the UCL History website.