# Official mind

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The '''official mind''' is the ideas, perceptions, and intentions of those policy-makers who had a bearing on [British](/source/United_Kingdom) imperial policies.  The policy maker is a politician or civil servant who had influence over imperial policy.<ref name= "Heinlein p. 7">{{harvnb|Heinlein|2002|p=7}}</ref>

The official mind is extensively written about in [Ronald Robinson](/source/Ronald_Robinson)'s extraordinarily influential work, ''[Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism](/source/Africa_and_the_Victorians%3A_The_Official_Mind_of_Imperialism)'', was co-authored with [John Gallagher](/source/John_Andrew_Gallagher) and Alice Denny and first published in 1961.<ref name= "Robinson-Gallagher-Denny p. ">{{harvnb|Robinson|Gallagher|Denny|1961| p=}}</ref>  Historian John Darwin states that while the "local habitation" of the official mind is in Whitehall "its real field of operations lay in those diplomatic-strategic
spheres where official control was greatest. In imperial terms that chiefly meant the Mediterranean and Near East."<ref name= "Darwin p. 622">{{harvnb|Darwin|1997|p=622}}</ref>

==Bibliography==
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*{{cite journal |last=Darwin|first= John |date=June 1997|title=Imperialism and the Victorians: The Dynamics of Territorial Expansion|journal= [The English Historical Review](/source/The_English_Historical_Review)|volume=  112|issue= 447  |pages= 614–642 |jstor=576347|publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press)|issn=1477-4534 |doi=10.1093/ehr/cxii.447.614|doi-access=free}}
*{{cite book |last=Heinlein|first=Frank | title = British government policy and decolonisation, 1945-1963: scrutinising the official mind|edition=2002|year=2002| publisher = [Routledge](/source/Routledge)| isbn= 978-0-7146-5220-7}} <small>- Total pages: 337 </small>
*{{cite book |last=Robinson|first=Ronald Edward| author-link = Ronald Robinson|last3=Denny|first3=Alice |last2=Gallagher|first2=John | title =Africa and the Victorians: the official mind of imperialism|edition=1961|year=1961| publisher = [Macmillan](/source/Macmillan_Publishers)}} <small>- Total pages: 491 </small>

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