Frederick Madden Author

FREDERICK MADDEN is Emeritus Reader in Commonwealth Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University. He was previously Beit Lecturer in Colonial History and is the author or coeditor of Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth, Australia and Britain

Imperial Constitutional Documents, 1765-1965, A Supplement and British Colonial Developments, 1774-1834.

DAVID FIELDHOUSE is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, the senior imperial chair at Cambridge University, and Fellow of Jesus College. He is the former Beit Lecturer, successor to Frederick Madden, and is the author of The Colonial Empires, Economics and Empire, 1830-1914 and Unilever Overseas, which won the annual award of the Business Archives Council in 1980.