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Empire, commonwealth and de-colonisation

The Imperial structure: creation and dissolution

Emigrants leaving Tilbury Docks for Australia in 1922.

Colonies, dominions and informal empire

Mohandas Gandhi on the day of his departure for England in 1931.

Kenya in the 1950s.

In 1952 members of the South African Passive Resistance Movement arrive in Cape Town where they are arrested for breaking apartheid law.

Sugarcane being planted on a hillside in Barbados in 1955.

TE Lawrence in Cairo 1921.

A helicopter is recovered from a Malayan swamp in May 1955.

In 1931 General Yorita watches the entry of Japanese assault troops into Manchuria.

'Together For Victory' - A Second World War poster depicting the allegiance of Australia and Britain against a common enemy.

Delegate at Ottawa Conference 1932.

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