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“... An Indian career meant that sons hardly saw their fathers once they were no longer infants. As Elizabeth Buettner observes in Empire Families, Sir Adelbert Talbot, the Resident in Kashmir, retired in the same month that his son Addy came out to start his own career in the ICS. Henry Cotton’s grandfather served in Madras from 1801 to 1830, retiring ...”

“... initiatives and squatters. Immigrant communities created festivals and cultural institutions: Elizabeth Buettner sensitively recovers Naseem Khan’s decades of effective and joyful activism. Gay enclaves emerged in London, Manchester and Bristol and mobilised to defend themselves when Aids hit. In the late 1970s, feminist ‘Reclaim the ...”