The first talk in The Pre and Post-History of Brexit - Race, Class and Finance in the Making of British Economic Strategy Series explored the prehistory of Brexit and its roots in the post-imperial crisis of British industry and the neoliberal approach to British political economy of successive British governments in the 1990's during the high tide of European integration. Damon Silvers focuses on the centrality of issues of race, class and empire to the economic fate of post-imperial Britain.