ABSTRACT
The First World War gave rise to an increasingly visible black presence in Britain. Employment prospects for black seafarers improved and African and Caribbean men arrived to seek work in war industries or to volunteer for military service. The experiences of the black British population during this period provide important insights and context to the inter-war moral panics centred on relationships between black men and white women identified by Bland (2005; 2006), Joannou (2004), Kohn (1992), Schwarz (1996) and Tabili (1996). Such a study also illustrates the impact of international conflict on community relations.
