Zoë Laidlaw re-assesses British colonial activism and ‘the illuminating failure’ of the Aborigines Protection Society Protecting the Empire’s Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism 1830–1870 , by Zoë Laidlaw, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 374 pp., $AU169.95 (hbk), ISBN 9781107196322. Publisher’s website: https://www.cambridge.org/