Michael Collins

Windrush Cricket

Imperial Culture, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 240 Seiten
ISBN 0198875703
EAN 9780198875703
Veröffentlicht 11. September 2025
Verlag/Hersteller Oxford University Press
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Beschreibung

A book exploring the role of cricket in shaping the experience of Caribbean migrants in post-war England, arguing that cricket was a critical aspect of the experience of the Windrush community, shaping the way emigrants saw themselves and negotiated a series of social interactions through which their sense of self and community were formed.

Portrait

Dr Michael Collins is an associate professor of history at UCL. He was awarded his doctorate by the University of Oxford in 2009, after studying for degrees in political science at the London School of Economics and history at Cambridge University. He has published on the political thought of Rabindranath Tagore; on nationalism and decolonisation; on the rise and fall of federations in the British Empire; and on the significance of cricket in terms of imperial culture and post-imperial identity. He has been a permanent member of the UCL History staff since 2010. From 2021-2024 he was a commissioner on the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC).

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