Out of the Crowded Vagueness: A History of the Islands of St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla
The Islands of St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla were settled as individual English possessions during the first half of the seventeenth century, but the close proximity of Nevis to St Kitts and the dependence of Anguilla on both of them gave all three islands very much a common history.
Their relationship was eventually formalized in the nineteenth century, Anguilla being made a ward of St Kitts in 1825, and Nevis being united with St Kitts and Anguilla under a single administration in 1882.
Out of the Crowded Vagueness records the fascinating history of all three islands from the first settlement up until the events which in 1980 brought about Anguilla’s resumption of the status of a British Dependent Territory, and three years later led to independence for a fragile federation of St Kitts and Nevis