Produced by the University of the West Indies and facilitated by the Barbados Museum & Historical Society, in partnership with Reading Museum.
A travelling exhibition takes its theme and title from V.S. Naipaul's 1987 novel, The Enigma of Arrival, a commentary of a key moment in Caribbean Migration to the UK and the memory of its impact and aftermath.
It charts the story of West Indian migrants to the United Kingdom, how they arrived and settled, the problems they encountered and the solutions they sought. It ends with the build up to the detainments and deportations of some of these migrants, seventy or so years later.
Please note the exhibition is only availalble during library opening hours.