1. D. M. Schreuder, Gladstone and Kruger: Liberal Government and Colonial Home Rule 1880–85 (London, 1969), Foreword, p. vii.
2. On decolonisation, see W. R. Louis, ‘The Dissolution of the British Empire’, OHBE, IV (1999), pp. 329–56
3. J. Darwin, British Decolonisation: The Retreat of Empire in the Post-War World (London, 1988) and The End of the British Empire: The Historical Debate (Oxford, 1991)
4. McIntyre, British Decolonization 1946–1997: When, Why, and How did the British Empire Fall? (London, 1998).
5. CPC(57)30 (Revise), 6 September 1957. PRO:CAB 134/1556. For a detailed analysis, see Tony Hopkins, ‘Macmillan’s Audit of Empire, 1957’, in P. Clarke and C. Trebilcock (eds.), Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance (Cambridge, 1997), pp. 234–60.