A series of portraits of 'imperial lives' to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.

'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation,

A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day Unit

"Originally published in the U.K. in 2014 under the title Ten cities that made an empire, by Allen Lane, London."