Michael Collins’ Windrush Cricket is published this month (Oxford). He explores Caribbean and British transnational postwar history through the lens of cricket, treating the sport as a locus of social organisation and an evolving, contested form of cultural expression. How should we write the history of the so-called “Windrush Generation?” How was the sport expressive of global 20th century West Indian identities? How has our understanding been shaped by the wider historiography of anti-colonial nationalism and the post-colonial diaspora, including the work of C. L. R. James? In what sense can cricket be said to have “remade” postwar England? Michael Collins is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary British History, University College London. He has published on the political thought of Rabindranath Tagore; on nationalism and decolonization; on the rise and fall of federations in the British Empire; and on the significance of cricket in terms of imperial culture and post-imperial identity. From 2021-2024 he was a commissioner on the Independent Commission for Equity in Cricket (ICEC). For his publications, see ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/history/people/academic-staff/dr-michael-collins