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Cricket, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England

CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar Cricket, Caribbean Migration, and the Remaking of Postwar England Speaker: Michael Collins (UCL) 24 February 2026 What can be said about the changing role and meaning of cricket as expressive of specifically West Indian identities in the twentieth century, including for the immigrants who settled in England after World War II? How has our understanding of cricket and its relation to identity been shaped by the wider historiography of empire, anti-colonial nationalism and the post-colonial diaspora as well as the outsized influence of the Trinidadian writer C. L. R. James? How should we write the history of the “Windrush Generation”? And in what sense can Caribbean cricket be said to have “remade” postwar England? This talk, discussing aspects of Dr Collins’ new book Windrush Cricket (Oxford University Press 2025) requires no knowledge of the game itself, but will seek to persuade listeners of cricket’s cultural and ideological importance in our understanding of Caribbean and British history, race and Englishness, postwar migration and contemporary national identity.