1. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2002. A more recent analysis on Southeast Asia is P.L. Pham, Ending East of Suez: the British decision to withdraw from Malaysia and Singapore (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010).
2. Jeffrey Pickering, Britain’s Withdrawal from East of Suez (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998) and ‘Politics and “Black Tuesday”: shifting power in the Cabinet and the decision to withdraw from “East of Suez”’, Twentieth Century British History, 13/2 (2002).
3. David Greenwood, The Economics of the East of Suez Decision (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1973).
4. See also Matthew Jones, ‘A Decision Delayed: Britain’s withdrawal from Southeast Asia reconsidered’, English Historical Review, CXVII/472 (2002), pp. 569–95.
5. The chapter therefore builds on an increasing interest among scholars in the role of embassies. See, for example: Michael Hopkins, Saul Kelly and John Young (eds), The Washington Embassy: British ambassadors to the United States, 1939–77 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009);