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Robert Holland Author & Editor

Robert Holland is Professor of Imperial and Commonwealth History at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Amongst his chief publications are Britain and the Commonwealth Alliance, 1918-39 (1981), European Decolonization, 1918-91: An introductory survey, The Pursuit of Greatness: Britain and the World Role, 1900-1970, and most recently Britain and the Revolt in Cyprus, 1954-59. Sarah Stockwell is Senior Lecturer in Imperial and Commonwealth History at the Department of History, Kings College London. She is the author of The Business of Decolonisation: British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast and co-editor of Imperial Policy and Colonial Practice, 1925-1945, 2 vols.