Unpublished diary and letter excerpts offer authentic primary sources for historical analysis
Cross-disciplinary approach examines both British and Australian national identities
Focus on cultural displacement sheds light on identity formation during colonial times
Engaging narrative makes complex historical topics accessible to readers
Summarized by Shop
In the last quarter of the nineteenth-century, around 200,000 visitors from Australia landed in Britain. As members of the colonial elite, they sailed to the Old Country to experience their Britishness- they toured Westminster Abbey; they visited graves of parents; they threw snowballs at Christmas. As one visitor expressed it on arrival