Edward Beasley has published two books, with indexes, expanding on the work begun in his dissertation: 'Empire as the triumph of theory: imperialism, information and the Coloniel Society of 1868' (2004) and 'Mid-Victorian imperialists: British gentlemen and the empire of the mind' (2005). The first surveys the early membership of the Colonial Society, showing that a surprising proportion were writers; the second looks in greater depth at different groups of these writers and the various themes on which they wrote.