This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides Edward Said's theory of colonial culture as a first reference and follows his method of analysing various cultural products, mostly produced by the British that involved some sort of cultural exchange. It focuses on the British invasion, imperial projects, and colonial life entertains multiple perspectives: those of travellers, artists, business people, engineers, nurses, teachers, children, chaplains, soldiers, and more. The book explores the colonial history of Egypt to the early nineteenth century and demonstrates that British of diverse types were animated by an imperial doctrine that represented the British as carriers and disseminators of British liberty. It traces the subject of racism, which was barely disguised in some of the practices, if not policies, of high commissioners and diplomats in the interwar period and afterwards.