ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203976166/53464488-0697-4970-b225-e900bf0dba37/content/epi_page183-01_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>Enoch Powell's notorious “rivers of blood” speech in 1968 lies outside the period covered here. By that date British rule over an empire which in 1945 had still encompassed India was virtually at an end. This did not always mean the end of white rule, Udi in Zimbabwe was declared in 1965. In 1967 Britain made its second bid to join the Eec. This was one step in a turn to Europe which, as Catherine Hall argues, was one response to the loss of imperial power. 1 There was a further Immigration Act in 1968 which, along with those of 1962 and 1965, could be seen as a further response.
