About the Author

Lizzie Collingham is a Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. This is her first book (apart from her doctoral thesis, about the 'nabobs' of the British raj, which was published by Polity Press in 2001). She has a PHD in History from Cambridge, and at the university of Sussex won the Rose Prize for the best History finalist. Educated also in Germany and Sweden, she has been a lecturer at Warwick University and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra. She is married and lives part of the year in France, part in Cambridge.