ABSTRACT
The child of 1930 had an imperial view, whatever his class (it is a massive error to suppose that imperialism was confined to the upper and middle classes; if anything, it was stronger among the working class, and I speak from personal experience of the old raj, where a colonel’s imperialism was as nothing compared to the private soldier’s). The British child of 1930 thought the Empire was terrific, giving him and his country a status beyond all other nations – and he had the evidence to prove it on a world map that was one-fifth pink.
