Cornwallis Cloth | Exhibition in the Visitor Centre

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Cornwallis Cloth is a brand-new film created and produced by Sweet Patootee Arts as part of the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund.Inspired by oral testimony and the untold stories of British Caribbean lives during the Second World War, this 20-minute film explores loyalty and freedom and investigates emerging post-colonial identity with dramatic intensity and satirical humour. Set in a moonlit tropical garden in Barbados in 1942, the film centres around Mrs Bonita Skeete (aka Bonny), a Black woman whose story operates as a metaphor for British Caribbean civil rights during the period of the Second Wo…