Leonard Woolf’s series of autobiographies were exceptional first hand accounts that (to Woolf’s best ability) depicted the real life interactions between the British Empire and their relationship with India and Ceylon.  His works not only showed the relations between the Englishmen and indigenous but also the relations between fellow Englishmen in these foreign lands which seemed to show that many of the men working for the British cause did not seem to get along very well.  Interestingly enough, Leonard Woolf was declared “unfit for war” during World War 1, which ultimately saved his life and the legacy he left behind.  If Woolf would have been drafted and killed in action, his contributions to the British Empire such as research done on different English colonies and his first hand accounts of his time abroad may have been lost forever.

Left Image: Leonard Woolf with his pet marmoset in 1932.

Right Image: One of the British Empire’s first propaganda posters call on indigenous from other colonies to provide forces to fight for the motherland.

Source: http://spartacus-educational.com/TUwoolf.htm