The files had been stored in a high security foreign office depository at Hanslope Park, near Northampton. She was both vindicated and outraged by the discovery: “After all these years of being roasted over the coals, they’ve been sitting on the evidence? This almost destroyed my career.”This book, a decade on, is that wider history that Elkins had postponed. Elkins offers an open and shut case for those who believe that Rhodes must fall. Her book should, you hope, also find its way into the hands of at least some of that 60% of the nation who, when polled in 2014, thought the British empire was, in general, “something to be proud of”.

Source: The Guardian September 30, 2023 18:51 UTC