Emigrants leaving Tilbury Docks for Australia in 1922.
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TopFotoDuring 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
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)
