History is normally written through the printed word. Rarely, very rarely, do we witness historical development through the visual arts. Photography is, perhaps, the latest, the most modern of the visual arts. In this volume we seek to chart the process through which we arrived in this country in the 1950's and moved sometimes tentatively, sometimes boldly, sometimes in retreat to the position at which we are today. It has been summed up in the slogan "Come What May We are Hear to Stay"

This volume tells the story of our arrival in the United Kingdom, our struggles to overcome difficulties, our integration and accommodation to what we met and our absolute rejection of facets of British life and social orientation.

Whatever your vantage point, we have lived, fought and learnt from the tentative steps which took us onto the pier from the SS Empire Windrush through 30 years of cut, thrust and parry in order to establish an identity and a social position in a strange land. This volume of photographs documents that history.

Compiled by Claudius Hilliman and Leila Hassan. Edited by Trevor Esward.