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Description: | Jil Cove was born in Brighton and trained as a nurse from 1957 to 1960. She first came to London in 1960 to train in midwifery at the London Hospital, Whitechapel. Here, in conversation with Stefan Dickers of Bishopsgate Institute, she speaks of the significance of the presence of student nurses from the Caribbean on her nursing course. In the years following the Second World War, immigration from the British Empire was encouraged in order to overcome labour shortages, especially in the fledgling NHS. Many involved in this wave of immigration came from the British West Indies, including those on the well-known ship, Empire Windrush, which docked at Tilbury on 22nd June 1948. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship work Public services Communities | Temporal: | 2008 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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