Empire into commonwealth

The British Empire and Commonwealth in World War II: Selection and Omission in English History Textbooks

The study of history through school textbooks arguably is still the predominant medium for classroom learning in England. History textbooks are a powerful influence upon the development of the attitudes, values, perceptions and understanding of young citizens. Nowhere is the role of textbooks in personal orientation more pronounced than in textbooks on the Second World War. The paper analyses t...

The Commonwealth of Cells

We are often asked to recommend a small book on physiology that gives a simple and readable outline, and which can be understood by those who have had no training in the sciences. This book will answer the purpose admirably. As the title indicates, the author keeps before us throughout the book the cellular structure of the various tissues of the body, with the result that a more uniform and co...

Racism, Empire and Sociology

‘[T]he entity called Europe was constructed from the outside in as much as from the inside out.’ So wrote Mary Louise Pratt, at the start of Imperial Eyes (1992: 6), her insightful account of colonial travelogue. Pratt’s point provides a pithy summary of one of the central claims of what was, at the time, the still emerging field of postcolonial studies (in which context, of course, Imperial Ey...

The British Empire Exhibition

Regeneration through Empire