RUTH CRAGGS is Reader in Political and Historical Geography at King's College London, UK. Her research focuses on decolonisation, postcolonial geopolitics, and diplomacy in relation to the UK, Africa and the institutions of the Commonwealth.HANNAH NEATE is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. She researches the cultural-historical geographies of the late twentieth century, focusing on utopian urbanism, modernist architecture and decolonisation.