As a dual Commonwealth national and Historian that has lived in on four continents, I found 'The Re-collecting Empire" exhibition unserious, fundamentally flawed and regressive. In an attempt to 'decolonise' it is characterised by its Western condescension as well as a singular approach to interactions between British colonisers and travellers and the indignious populations of colonised or visited countries. The underlying fallacies are too numerous to record here, but suffice it to say that history done as 'critical' social studies is as grievous as uncritical and sanitised accounts of the oppression and exploitaion that did occur in many, not all, parts of the empire. In the context of sport, it is simply dishonest to portray it as an 'imposition'. It removes the agency of colonised people perpertuating the trope of them as feckless children. It ignore the complexity of colonial dynamics, the sophistication of many societies subject to it, the influence of local populations on colonisers, and not least the sincere and manifest passion for sports in countries that were once part of the British Empire. Instead of Scotish graduate students being asked to reframe St Andrews, perhaps they should have asked golfers, golf clubs and sports historians from former colonies to offer their perspectives. If they actually care about the impact of empire rather than pandering to young British white people they would have.