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, Culture, and Identity (London 2003), p. 5. This is further elaborated in Kent Fedorowich and Andrew Thompson, ‘Mapping the Contours of the British World: Empire, Migration and Identity’, in Kent Fedorowich and Andrew Thompson (eds), Empire, Migration and Identity in the British World (Manchester 2013 ), pp. 1
. Thompson , ‘ Introduction ’, in A. Thompson (ed.), Writing Imperial Histories ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2014 ), p. 10 . See also K. Fedorowich and A. Thompson (eds), Empire, Migration and Identity in the British World ( Manchester : Manchester University Press , 2013 ). 12 J. Belich , Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo-World, 1783–1939 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2009 ); M. Ruiz (ed.), International Migrations in the Victorian Era ( Leiden : Brill , 2018 ); C. L
, though not of diaspora, Eric Richards’s Britannia’s Children: Emigration from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales Since 1600 (London, 2004). 4 For further discussion around the framing and terminology of the British World, see Carl Bridge and Kent Fedorowich (eds), The British World: Diaspora, Culture and Identity (London, 2003); and Kent Fedorowich and Andrew S. Thompson (eds), Empire, Migration and Identity in the British World (Manchester, 2013). 5 Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London, 1983). 6 Malcolm Gaskill, Between Two Worlds: How the English
young people, and put to the service of traditional values. 16 Stories of empire migration evinced a greater tendency to emphasise the material benefits to the characters. While this might involve benefits to the wider British economy, or bolster the fortunes of economically undeveloped regions, the stories usually stressed the gains for individuals or their families. The British who emigrated to
and lectures. The Maple Leaf teacher scheme enabled educated British women to participate as equals with men in empire migration and empire development. Among FML teacher candidates, women outnumbered men by a ratio of six to one. They were motivated by a call to service, enthusiasm for travel, or simply the desire for better employment. Dorothy Watkins, a teacher on the staff of Portsmouth secondary school, heard the call during Lloyd’s visit to Southsea. 29 Marion Green wrote to Lloyd that ‘I shall always be thankful that
: Manchester University Press, 1990 ). 4 Constantine, Emigrants and Empire , 4: the Empire Settlement Act of 1922 was ‘an Act to make better provision for furthering British settlement in His Majesty’s Oversea Dominions’. 5 Dane Kennedy, ‘Empire migration in
Salonica in the late nineteenth century’, in U. Freitag, M. Fuhrmann, N. Lafi and F. Riedler (eds), The City in the Ottoman Empire: Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 177–89. 32 Mazower, The Balkans, p. 11. 33 Carnegie Endowment, Report of the International Commission, pp. 106–35, 155–7. 34 Dragostinova, Between Two Motherlands. 35 Kramer, Dynamic of Destruction, p. 139. 36 Fikret Adanir, ‘Non-Muslims in the Ottoman army and the Ottoman defeat in the Balkan War of 1912–1913’, in Ronald G. Suny, Fatma Go çek and Norman Naimark
, see Rachel Bright, ‘Asian Migration and the British World’, in Kent Fedorowich and Andrew S. Thompson (eds), Empire, Migration and Identity in the British World (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013), pp. 128–49. 42 Edward Szczepanik, The Economic Growth of Hong Kong (Westport
). 18 Corona (August 1962), p. 8. 19 Jean P. Smith, ‘“The women's branch of the Commonwealth Relations Office”: the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women and the long life of empire migration’, Women's History Review , 25:4 (2016), 529. 20
mainly in Romania, Greece and Egypt from the outbreak of war. The expat community she describes was comprised mainly of British Council teachers and administrators. A BBC television series based on the novels was produced in 1987. 15 See K. A, Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: ethics in a world of strangers, New York, Norton, 2006. 16 Mackie, interview and written account. 17 Kerr, written account. For a parallel analysis see S. Constantine, ‘“Dear Grace … love Maidie”: interpreting a migrant’s letters from Australia’, in K. Fedorowich and A. S. Thompson (eds), Empire
