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Running the Show

In “Running the Show”, the British Empire of old is re-examined, with Stephanie Williams looking at the men governing the Empire in the nineteenth century, how they were chosen and controlled, and just how they managed to do it.From Fiji to the Falkland Islands, from Malaysia to Australia and South Africa, from Lagos to Ottawa, ordinary British men and women, with no training, were dispatched to strange places, among strange people and faced unimaginable conditions. Some started wars. Others fought disease, injustice and slavery. Many died or went mad. “Running the Show”, drawing on vast unpublished sources, reveals the day-today lives, griefs and triumphs of governors at the height of the British Empire as they struggled to make sense of their charges and, frequently, themselves.

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