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Christienna Fryar: Love Me or I Shoot You
In the early​ 2000s, a trend emerged among historians of the British Empire. Many of them began to consider their own childhoods in mid-20th-century Britain and the extent to which the empire had featured in them. Catherine Hall opened Civilising Subjects …