Legacies of an Imperial City: The Museum of London 1976-2007

This comprehensive history of the Museum of London traces the ways that the relationship between Britain and its imperial past have changed over the course of three decades, providing a holistic approach to galleries’ shifts from Victorian nostalgia to equitable representations.

Samuel Aylett is Visiting Fellow and Member of the Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies at the Open University and Senior Lecturer at Arden University, Berlin. His research is concerned with the place and value of Empire in British culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.