¹ See inter alia Porter, Bernard, “What did they know of Empire?” History Today 54 (10) 2004, pp. 42-48;Google Scholar The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, society, and culture in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2004;Google Scholar MacKenzie, John, “Another little patch of red” History Today 55(8), 2005, pp. 20-26Google Scholar “‘Comfort’ and conviction: a response to Bernard Porter” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 36(4) 2008, pp. 659-668; Andrew Thompson, The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the mid-nineteenth century, Harlow: Pearson, 2005.

² These reminiscences, which show how the home life, schooling and reading of a lad growing up in Wales in the 1930s and 1940s were pervaded with reminders of Empire, were in fact written by a Summer School student of Dr Jackson.