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Imperial cooperation between the wars

Emigrants leaving Tilbury Docks for Australia in 1922.

Emigrants leaving Tilbury Docks for Australia in 1922.
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During the First World War the status of Britain's self-governing dominions increased significantly. They began to act as fully-fledged states and made an important contribution to Britain's war effort.

Related documents

Dominion political status

Cabinet Memorandum. The Turco-Greek Situation: Co-operation of the Dominions. 20 September 1922. (PDF, 4.075MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. The Situation in the Near East. Memorandum from the Secretary of State for War. 28 September 1922. (PDF, 1.481MB)

Balfour Declaration

Cabinet Memorandum. Imperial Conference Committee on Inter-Imperial Relations. Note by the Lord President of the Council. 15 November 1926 (PDF, 0.583MB)

1922 Empire Settlement Act

Cabinet Memorandum. Empire Migration. Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. 23 January 1923. (PDF, 0.822MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Overseas Settlement within the Empire. 1 August 1923. (PDF, 1.696MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Proposals for financial assistance to accelerate the development of Imperial Resources. Joint Memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies and the President of the Board of Trade. 8 February 1923. (PDF, 1.292MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Imperial Economic Conference (Documents) Committee Report. August 1923. (PDF, 4.756MB)

Imperial preference

Cabinet Conclusion 2. Import Duties Bill. 3 February 1932. (PDF, 5.497MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Imperial trade policy and Imperial Economic Machinery. Note by the President of the Board of Trade. 11 September 1930. (PDF, 16.491MB)

Ottawa agreements

Cabinet Memorandum. Ottawa Conference (Agreements) Bill. Note by the Secretary. 9 September 1932. (PDF, 5.276MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Ottawa Agreements Bill. 28 September 1932. (PDF, 4.058MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Ottawa Conference. Summary of Conclusions and Copies of Trade Agreements. Note by the Secretary. 8 September 1932. (PDF, 14.563MB)

Sterling Area

Cabinet Memorandum. Committee on British Shipping in the Far East. 12 November 1937. (PDF, 3.580MB)

Search using Empire Settlement Act 1922 Imperial Economic Conference Statute of Westminster

Further reading

Cain, P.J. & Hopkins, A.G., British Imperialism: Crisis and Deconstruction, 1914-1990 (London: Longman, 1993)
Darwin, J., A Third British Empire? The Dominion Idea in Imperial Politics In Brown, J. M. and Louis, W. R. ed., The Oxford History of the British Empire, Vol. 5 The Twentieth Century (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
Drummond, I.M., Imperial Economic Policy: 1917-1930: Studies in Expansion and Protection (London: Allen & Unwin, 1993)

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