Retired service men and women form one of the most respected groups in the Caribbean community.
From Charlie Phillips’ ongoing series documenting Caribbean funerals.
Photo included in the exhibition ‘Roots to Reckoning’, 2005 Museum of London.
Three sisters, refugees from Vietnam who arrived in the UK on a family reunion programme.
Women demonstrating against the cuts to ESOL English classes. The demonstration was outside Birmingham town hall and was organised by the TUC and the UCU.
Many Turkish people settled in Hackney in the 1970s and 1980s, they worked in the rag trade, catering and grocery shops, often having to put up with awful working and housing conditions. Immigration officials and the police would raid these sweatshops, detain those who had overstayed their visas and then seek to deport them. Local communities would be outraged when this happened: schools would mount campaigns to persuade the Home Office not to deport a parent, some families were given refuge by the local church and support groups would take the issues to politicians and trade unions.
