First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisation during the period 1945 to 1970.

1. 'Festering Britain': the 1951 Festival of Britain, Decolonisation and the Representation of the Commonwealth. Jo Littler. 2. Images of Industrialisation in Empire and Commonwealth during the Shift to Neo-Colonialism. Anandi Ramamurthy. 3. Late Colonial Exoticism: John Minton's Pictures of Jamaica, 1950-1952. Simon Faulkner. 4. Francis Newton Souza and Aubrey Williams: Entwined Art Histories at the End of Empire. Leon Wainwright. 5. A Journey through the Imperial Gaze: Birmingham's Photographic Collections and its Caribbean Nexus. Sandra Courtman. 6. 'Can Whiskey Come Too?': Records of Family and Friendship in 1960s Malawi. Patricia Holland and Emma Sandon. 7. 'There'll always be an England': Representations of Colonial Wars and Immigration, 1948-1968. Wendy Webster. 8. Casting a Giant Shadow: the Appropriation of Colonial Imagery in Three Pro-Zionist Films. Richard Farrow. 9. Fragments in the History of the Visual Culture of Anti-Colonial Struggle. Hakim Adi and Anandi Ramamurthy.