Mother Country Paperback London Museum slow decline set in

slow decline set in

The Palace of Westminster from the Albert Embankment with barges and tugs in the foreground

Battersea Power Station

historians and all lovers of London's past

or moments in Casino Royale when we’re invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media

Mother Country Paperback London Museum slow decline set inFor the pioneers of the Windrush generation, Britain was 'the Mother Country'. They made the long journey across the sea, expecting to find a place where they would be be welcomed with open arms; a land in which you were free to build a new life, eight thousand miles away from home. This remarkable book explores the reality of their experiences, and those of their children and grandchildren, through 22 unique real life stories spanning more than 70