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“... This romantic (and reactionary) nonsense finds a perfect match in the Preface to the book, by Carmen Blacker, the co-editor who oversaw the final stages of production after Shils’s death in 1995. Characteristically, she concludes her opening paragraph with a statement about these women that could be taken as the book’s motto: ‘The fact that ...”

“... 1946. Most of the contributors have happy memories of their time at Bletchley – except one. Carmen Blacker was a young and promising student of Japanese; she was recruited by Bletchley and set to compiling, from miscellaneous captured material, an index of technical terms. She was isolated, poorly paid and miserable. She doubts that her index was ...”

“... Africa and Asia. Of these, some had a start in their new lives, some had none. By and large, the blacker and poorer they were, the worse time they had. And many of the images of England that they arrived with were sadly wide of the mark; curious distillations in which David Niven-like aristocrats dispensed fairness and tolerance in a Dickensian ...”