An essential volume. In appreciating Hall's pioneering scholarship, these essays lay out new grounds of inquiry and debate in settler colonial, Indigenous, queer and disability studies, upholding Hall's mandate to reconfigure our knowledge of Britain's past, and future.

Kathleen Wilson, Stony Brook University, USA

Catherine Hall's recasting of British history as a story of power relations shaped by empire set me on my academic path, as it did many of the contributors to this book. But it is also her fundamental decency as a human being and her courageous determination to tell the truth even when those with power resent and resist it, that has energised so many of us. Not just a fitting testament to Hall's work, but a wide-ranging critical analysis of race, class, gender and power, this is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what we know about the making of modern Britain and how we know it.

Alan Lester, University of Sussex, UK

This is no ordinary festschrift. As her students and colleagues show, you simply cannot do modern British empire history now without acknowledging how Catherine Hall has permanently troubled the field, not least by bringing her socialist-feminist commitments to the fore. That makes this book a heatmap of the lives and afterlives of British imperial history, one which readers will want to study -- and track their own place in as well.

Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois, USA