This was actually a collection of smaller islands that were combined together to make this administrative unit between 1671 and 1817 and then again from 1871 to 1970. They came and went over the years but included Antigua, Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, St Christopher, Barbuda and Montserrat.
Lord Baldwin and the Leeward Islands Winifred F. O'Mahony recalls the appointment of the high profile, and controversial, appointment of Lord Baldwin as the governor of the Leeward Islands during the late 1940s. This was a time of unrest that ended up having a very direct effect on the author's family.
Reminiscences of the Leeward Islands Winifred K. O'Mahony explains what it was like to live in the Leeward Islands in the 1930s as her husband was sent there to work as a supernumerary medical office. This had the side-effect of the couple being posted all over the chain of islands and experience Caribbean life from a multitude of angles in a fascinating period of its development.