British World

'A variety of valuable insights into the social and cultural networks of the British empire.'Tilman Dedering, University of South Africa

• Mapping the British world, Carl Bridge and Kent Federowich; British emigration tot he Empire-Commonwealth since 1880 - from overseas settlement to diaspora?, Stephen Constantine; a new class of women for the colonies - The Imperial Colonist and the construction of Empire, Lisa Chilton; the Welsh world and the British Empire c. 1851-1939 - an exploration, Aled Jones and Bill Jones; revisiting Anglicisation in the 19th-century Cape Colony, Vivian Bickford-Smith; the Crown, Empire loyalism and the assimilation of non-British white subjects in the British world - an argument against ethnic determinism, Donal Lowry; Britishness and Australia - some reflections, Neville Meany; Hugh Wyndham, Transvaal politics and the attempt to create an English country seat in South Africa, 1901-14, Ian van der Waag; casting daylight upon magic - deconstructing the Royal Tour of 1901 to Canada, Phillip Buckner; communication and integration - the British and Dominions Press and the British world, Simon J. Potter; brushing up your Empire - dominion and colonial propaganda on the BBC's Home Services 1939-45, Sian Nicholas.