Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn's quarterly reports from St John's to London are an insider's account of events in Newfoundland from 1936 to 1946. Publishing Walwyn's reports in full, Out Here recalls in vivid detail public life in Newfoundland immediately before the country's 1949 union with Canada.

Melvin Baker is an historian and retired archivist for Memorial University.

Peter Neary is professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario.