Golden Talking-Shop

In the late 1890s, Britain was basking in the high noon of empire, albeit with the sobering experience of the Boer War just around the corner. By 1956, the year of the Suez debacle and less than a lifetime later, the age of empire was drawing rapidly to a close and Britain''s position as an independent great power was over. In between, the country had experienced two devastating world wars. India-...