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'An important and interesting book filled with important essays.'
Freddy Foks, Contemporary British History
' ...an engaging and rich conversation about how we can and should conceptualize the manifold legacies of Empire in contemporary Britain, including a useful discussion of these issues in relation to the four nations that make up Britain.'
Journal of British Studies
Josh Doble is the policy manager at Community Land Scotland and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
Liam J. Liburd is Assistant Professor in Black British History at the University of Durham
Emma Parker is Lecturer in Literature and Gender at the Department of English, University of Bristol
Foreword: Living in the bush of ghosts – Elleke Boehmer
Introduction: Rhodesia and the 'Rivers of Blood' – Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd and Emma Parker
Part I: Institutions of empire
1 'Bloomsbury bazaar': Daljit Nagra at the diasporic museum – John McLeod
2 Anthropology at the end of empire – Katherine Ambler
3 'He is not a "racist" but should not be appointed director of LSE': The impact of colonial universities on the University of London – Dongkyung Shin
Part II: Writing identity, conflict and class
4 Beyond experience: British anti-racist non-fiction after empire – Dominic Davies
5 Empire, war and class in Graham Swift’s Last Orders (1996) – Ed Dodson
Part III: Racial others, national memory
6 White against empire: Immigration, decolonisation and Britain’s radical right, 1954–1967 – Liam J. Liburd
7 Racism, redistribution, redress: The Royal Historical Society and Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change – Shahmima Akhtar
8 Exemplar empires: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain – Astrid Rasch
Part IV: At home in postcolonial Britain
9 Empire, security and citizenship in Arab British fiction – Tasnim Qutait
10 Black, beautiful and essentially British: African Caribbean women, belonging and the creation of Black British beauty spaces in Britain (c. 1948–1990) – Mobeen Hussain
11 Convivial cultures and the commodification of otherness in London nightlife in the 1970s and 1980s – Steve Bentel
12 Tribe Arts, Tribe Talks – Josh Doble, Liam J. Liburd, Emma Parker, Samran Rathore and Tajpal Rathore
Afterword: Disorder and displacement – Bill Schwarz
Index