Small Island Valentine Use as a hair dress

Use as a hair dress or scalp treatment on afro-textured hair

which is marked by national Windrush Day on 22nd June each year

This is a story that begins not with the 'Windrush Generation' of Caribbean immigrants to Britain

The stories she captured reveal both the depth of the physical and emotional damage done to many women by relaxing their hair and trying to make it look 'acceptable'

Small Island Valentine Use as a hair dressIt is 1948, and England is recovering from a war. But at 21 Nevern Street, London, the conflict has only just begun. Queenie Bligh's neighbours do not approve when she agrees to take in Jamaican lodgers, but Queenie doesn't know when her husband will return, or if he will come back at all. What else can she do? Gilbert Joseph was one of the several thousand Jamaican men who joined the RAF to fight against Hitler. Returning to England as a civilian he