Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45 new mum The hidden Caribbean isn't a

The hidden Caribbean isn't a place but a legacy of the complex history

and the Stuart Hall library in Westminster to the Memorial Gates in Constitution Hill

Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity

Brixton Market has never looked so colourful

who came from Trinidad and Nigeria respectively to join the RAF

Mother Country: Britain's Black Community on the Home Front 1939-45 new mum The hidden Caribbean isn't aVery little attention has been given to Black British, West African and Caribbean citizens who lived and worked on the 'front line' during the Second World War. Yet Black people were under fire in cities like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, London and Manchester, and many volunteered as civilian defence workers, such as air raid wardens, fire fighters, stretcher bearers, first aid workers and mobile canteen personnel. Many helped unite people when their