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18. The Empire Implodes

Empire

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The Implosion of the Empire

The 1948 Nationality Act is key to understanding what happened, says Sonam. It enacted what had been true for decades, that anyone born in empire had the rights of a British citizen. So that opened the door, literally, in that that was the reason why people on the SS Windrush came to Britain in the first place.

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