Carl Bridge is Professor and Head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies. He was one of the organisers of the 2005 Symposium on Australians in Britain jointly organised by the Menzies Centre and the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash. His recent publications include, with Kent Fedorowich, The British World. Diaspora, Culture and Identity (Cass, 2003), with Ian Henderson, Australia’s Britain (Meanjin, 3, 2004), and A Delicate Mission: The Washington Diaries of R.G. Casey, 1940-42 (National Library of Australia, 2008).