In this story, Martha Knight from the open university talks about her late discovery of her family's role in colonialism: “This revelation on its own would have been of note but in my working life, I write teaching and learning materials relating to Global Development.  It is one thing to write and teach about the structural inequalities caused by colonialism and to believe passionately about the injustice this caused and then to realise that your family were at the centre of this state sanctioned action. The realisation and the feelings this engendered can best be described as a mixture of deeply felt shame and embarrassment.  Also, of hypocrisy.”

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