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What was it like to arrive in Britain?
L/O – To discover how peoples’ experiences of an event can differ and how we can try to understand their experiences
Starter
– Brainstorm reasons why people come to Britain. How many can you think of?Slide2
What was it like to arrive in Britain?
In June 1948, 500 West Indians arrived in Britain on board the SS Empire Windrush. It was 3 years after the end of WW2. Britain was
short of factory workers, but other kinds of workers as well.They advertised in the West Indies (the Caribbean). Over the next ten years,
125,000 West Indians came to Britain. What was it like for these people to arrive and live in a new country?We call working out what people in the past thought and felt ‘EMPATHY’. That is what this lesson is all about. You will be using extracts from interviews with people who came to Britain in the
1940s and 1950s
to help you find out what they thought and how they felt.
Think about how people might feel:
Jot down a few words (5-10)
that best describe what it might have felt like to have arrived in Britain from the West Indies on the Empire Windrush in 1948.Slide3
What was it like to arrive in Britain?
You are going to study sources A-I. For each source, use some of the words in the source to make a
list of the words and phrases that describe what it felt like to be a West Indian immigrant. Then jot down any other words that you’d use to describe those feelings.
Source AImmigrants from Jamaica arriving at Newhaven, 22 September 1958.Slide4
Source B – Euton
Christian – Town CouncillorSlide5
Source C – Cecil
Holness – Motor MechanicSlide6
Source D – Berris
Anderson & Pearline WynterSlide7
Source E – Connie Mark - NurseSlide8
Source F – Ivan Weekes – Local CouncillorSlide9
Source G – Vince Reid – TeacherSlide10
Source H – Aldwyn
Roberts – SingerSlide11
Source I – Tryphena
Anderson – NurseSlide12
What was it like to arrive in Britain?
As a class, now compile a complete list of words and phrases that describe what it felt like to be a West Indian immigrant in 1948:
Words
Phrases
Compare the class list with your words from the sources.
Are they different? Why?Slide13
The Big Ideas
Part of History is empathy – using sources to work out people’s feelings and experiences.
You will use empathy a lot in History, but you do NOT just imagine
what life was like for people. In History you use sources to find out their feelings and experiences.Slide14
The Big Ideas
It’s harder to find out the feelings of some people than of others – because we don’t
have enough
sources to tell us what they were thinking.What kinds of sources have been used in this lesson to find out about the experiences of the people on the Empire Windrush?
Are people’s memories, such as those you’ve read in Source A-I, likely to be trustworthy
evidence?Slide15
The Big Ideas
3. Here are five people. Whose feelings do you think it would be
easy to find out about and whose would be difficult?
William Gladstone,
Prime Minister when Queen Victoria was queen.
Robert
Blincoe
, a young factory worker who lived around 1900
Thomas Woodcock, a brewer who lived in
Wymondham
, Norfolk, when Elizabeth I was queen
Harald
Hardrada
– King of Norway 1045-1066
Queen Elizabeth
Remember!
There is always more than one answer to ‘What was it like to…’
Different people have
different experiences
. You have already worked this out for yourselves from the sources in this lesson.
Whenever you study and event in history, you need to remember that people have
different experiences and attitudes
.Slide16
The Big Ideas
One of the first topics you’ll investigate in Year 7 is the Norman Conquest. Your teacher may ask you a question like this:
What do you
think of the students answer? What should she
think about or do to improve
her answer? Slide17
Plenary
What was the SS Empire Windrush
?Why did West Indian’s come to
Britain?Did West Indian’s experience any bad things?Did West Indian’s experience any good things?What is empathy? Why is it important in History?Did we meet our learning objective?
L/O – To discover how peoples’ experiences of an event can differ and how we can try to understand their experiences