Other titles may be arranged by mutual agreement.

1. Was the 'new imperialism' of the late nineteenth century a symptom of British strength or British weakness?

2. What effect did the South African war of 1899-1902 have on British politics?

3. Describe the role of the United States of America on the British Empire from 1897 to 1997.

4. How far was imperialism ever 'popular'?

5. Do you agree that Britain's imperial defence strategies provided only 'the illusion of security' for her Eastern Empire in the two decades after 1921?

6. Were Britain's relations with her colonies and dominions fundamentally transformed in the inter-war period?

7. To what extent did domestic considerations affect British policy towards Empire and Commonwealth lands?

8. "The erosion of power by Britain is plain in the fortunes of the Indian Civil Service between the wars". Discuss.

9. What effect did the Empire have on British policy in the two world wars.

10. Discuss the consequences of the Second World War on the British Empire.

11. Was the British Empire lost on the Playing fields of Haileybury?

12. In what ways and to what extent did changes in the domestic political arena affect the process of British decolonisation in the period 1945 to 1956?

13. The Suez crisis of 1956 has been described as a watershed in British imperial history, the point at which the fall of the British Empire became irreversible. How far can this view be justified?

14. Why did most British colonies not follow India into independence until the 1960s?

15. Has there been any significant difference between the attitudes of Labour and Conservative Governments to the British Empire and Commonwealth?

16. Was the Falklands conflict of 1982 an imperial war?

17. What signifiance does the Commonwealth possess?

18. Has the end of the British Empire provided for the end of Great Britain?