Migration: It’s not one-way traffic

MIGRATION MUSEUM

Episode 1 of our new podcast Departures, exploring 400 years of emigration from Britain, is out now:
 1: The Swarming of the English

Mass emigration from England first took off in the 17th century with the colonisation of America and the Caribbean. The number of people leaving the shores of England was huge and unprecedented. 

Mukti Jain Campion speaks to historian James Evans, author of Emigrants: Why the English Sailed to the New World and to American historian Professor Linford Fisher to find out how those early English settlers fared – and how Native Americans responded to the incursion of their lands.

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About our Departures podcast

Departures is a new podcast from the Migration Museum exploring 400 years of emigration from Britain. We will be releasing episodes fortnightly from Thursday 26 November.

What would it take for you to leave your home? To leave everything and everyone you know to move to another country and start again. Over the past 400 years, that’s exactly what millions of British people have been doing. Today, the news headlines are full of stories of migrants trying to come to Britain. But for most of this country’s history, it’s actually been the other way round. And Britain’s emigration rate remains one of the highest in the world. Why has such a small island nation produced so many migrants and how have they shaped the world we live in today?