- All Timelines
- Britain - Changing Lives
- c.1066 |Medieval Manor
- c.1180 |Medieval Minds
- c.1250 |Medieval Towns
- c.1320 |Monastic Life
- c.1348 |The Black Death
- c.1420 |Yeoman England
- c.1520 |The Reformation
- c.1588 |Shakespeare's World
- c.1612 |Pendle Witches
- c.1775 |Iron and Industry
- c.1785 |Factories and Machines
- c.1810 |Urban Slums
- c.1834 |Tolpuddle Martyrs
- c.1853 |The Vision of Titus Salt
- c.1875 |Cities Transformed
- c.1910 |A Golden Age?
- c.1984 |Death of Industry
- Britain - Rulers & Ruled
- c.1066 |Norman Conquest
- c.1170 |Church & Crown
- c.1215 |Magna Carta
- c.1280 |First Parliaments
- c.1381 |Peasants Revolt
- c.1470 |The Pastons
- c.1528 |Henry VIII & Church
- c.1649 |Civil War
- c.1658 |The Wheel of History
- c.1688 |"Glorious" Revolution
- c.1789 |Rights of Man
- c.1819 |Peterloo Massacre
- c.1842 |The Chartists
- c.1867 |Dawn of Democracy
- c.1893 |Rise of Labour
- c.1903 |Votes for Women
- c.1919 |Century of Change
- Britain - Nations & Empire
- Smallpox Through Time
- c.1045BC |Face of a Pharaoh
- c.1562 |Arsenic and Old Lace
- c.1617 |Smallpox in America
- c.1711 |Child Pox
- c.1721 |Experiment in Newgate
- c.1758 |The Speckled Monster
- c.1796 |Jenner's Breakthrough
- c.1800 |The Vaccine Triumphant
- c.1806 |Ox-faced Boys
- c.1853 |Public Health & Protest
- c.1896 |Epidemic on Camera
- c.1967 |Global Action
- c.2010 |Smallpox Today
- The American West
- Britain - Changing Lives
- This Module
- With the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush in 1948 and the start of mass immigration into the UK, the British Empire story comes full circle. The module describes how Britain worked with many of the colonies to prepare them for Independence, and how, in the British Commonwealth, bonds of friendship remain.
- Credits
History of Britain - Nations & Empire
- 11.End of Empire
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1948
The story of the British Empire comes full circle, as the first wave of immigrants arrive in post-war Britain. (2.25 mins)
Chapter Breakdown
- 1. The Empire story comes full circle. Mass immigration begins with the arrival of the Empire Windrush in 1948.
- 2. The end of Empire, but a Commonwealth of nations remains.
Picture Viewer
Location details
This final module was filmed at Tilbury Docks in Essex, where the SS Empire Windrush arrived in 1948.
Should you ever visit Tilbury, take the ferry across the Thames to Gravesend. The ferry is called the "Princess Pocahontas", and it takes you direct to the graveyard where Pocahontas is buried.
She was in England with her husband John Rolfe, flogging the virtues of Jamestown tobacco, and she fell sick of Smallpox.
We cover this story in our Smallpox timeline (see 'Smallpox in the New World'). It's incongruous, but rather moving, to see her memorial in an English graveyard.
DVD
DVD Coming Soon!
We hope to release a new DVD pack containing all the video modules for the British timelines including 'Changing Lives', 'Rulers & Ruled', and 'Empire & Nations'.
