IMAGES OF EMPIRE

Imperial Theatre: "Jack and the Beanstalk", poster for a children's pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

"How to be a Colonial Power", from the German magazine, Simplicissimus, 3 May 1904. Note the distinctive British combinati of merchant, military and missionary

"Highways of Empire", Empire Marketing Board poster, 1927. There was a sustained effort between the wars to raise public awareness of the Empire's economic significance