Ronald HyamRonald Hyam is Emeritus Reader in British Imperial History at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow and former President of Magdalene College. He is the author of several books on the British Empire, including most recently Britain's Declining Empie: The Road to Decolonisation 1918–1968 and, with Peter Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War (2003). Read More Read Less