Britain as a global power in the twentieth century / Philip Murphy -- From the empire of Christ to the Third World : religion and the experience of empire in the twentieth century / Jeffrey Cox -- Empire comes home : commonwealth migration to Britain / Wendy Webster -- Empire and British politics / Richard Whiting -- Empire/commonwealth in British economic thinking and policy / Jim Tomlinson -- Social life and cultural representation : empire in the public imagination / Andrew Thompson with Meaghan Kowalsky -- Empire, nation, and national identities / Krishan Kumar -- Afterword : the imprint of the empire / Andrew Thompson