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Mad Dogs and Englishmen: A Grand Tour of the British Empire at its Height 1850-1945, by Ashley Jackson. London: Quercus, 2009. 237 pp. ISBN 978-1-84724 607-3. £20

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

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1 See inter alia Porter, Bernard, “What did they know of Empire?” History Today 54 (10) 2004, pp. 42-48;Google Scholar The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, society, and culture in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2004;Google Scholar MacKenzie, John, “Another little patch of red” History Today 55(8), 2005, pp. 20-26Google Scholar “‘Comfort’ and conviction: a response to Bernard Porter” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 36(4) 2008, pp. 659-668; Andrew Thompson, The Empire Strikes Back? The Impact of Imperialism on Britain from the mid-nineteenth century, Harlow: Pearson, 2005.

2 These reminiscences, which show how the home life, schooling and reading of a lad growing up in Wales in the 1930s and 1940s were pervaded with reminders of Empire, were in fact written by a Summer School student of Dr Jackson.