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Acknowledgements

I have been very fortunate indeed in the people who have helped me. Jillian Taylor is the best researcher a writer could wish for – conscientious, imaginative and astonishingly industrious: I no sooner asked a question than had it answered, wherever she happened to be in the world at that moment. The book was commissioned by Tom Weldon, but on his departure to metadata wonderland it was Mary Mount who steered the thing from manuscript to book, without ever seeming to get agitated when things were not as she was expecting. The appearance of the book is entirely her work. Peter James, king of copy-editors, did his usual impeccable job.

Staff at the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House, the National Archives, British Library Newspapers at Colindale, the Imperial War Museum (Collections) and the London Library were all tremendously helpful. That magnificent place the British Library at St Pancras deserves special mention, as an example of a largely unsung, quietly efficient institution where it is a delight to work. In various one-time imperial territories, members of the Foreign Office were generous with their thoughts and hospitality – Dominic and Louise Asquith in Cairo, Howard and Gill Drake in Kingston and Richard and Arabella Stagg