Studies of Britain's ‘imperial experience’ deal mainly with the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The time frame adopted by the volume is also distinctive. They consider societal responses to the empire, and the place of the colonies in the public imagination, alongside imperialism's more tangible effects upon demography, trade, party politics, government policy, the churches and civil society, and the armed forces. 2 In pursuit of this goal, its contributors range widely across various aspects of British private and public life. 1 Because of their broader remit, the five volumes that comprised the main series of the Oxford History of the British Empire did not set out to provide the reader with a detailed focus upon the ways in which the empire was experienced in Britain, whereas this volume aims to do exactly that. This volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism upon twentieth‐century Britain.
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