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'A grave without a cross'
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 185
Scope and Contents
A translation by Trevor Jaggar from the Kiswahili of the 1990 reprint of Kareithi's novel, with a translator's note and preface, 54 pages. In his note Jaggar explains that his purpose in translating Karethi's work was 'to enable British and other readers of English to learn something of what the Mau Mau War felt like to a Kikuyu striving for the independence of Kenya from British colonial rule'.
Dates:
2000
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A journey in French West Africa in 1901
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 145
Scope and Contents
An account of a journey undertaken by White, then 23, and two companions, from Dakar through St Louis, Kayes (on Mungo Park's route to the Niger), and Djéné on the Bani River, arriving finally at Bobodiulasso, 15 pages. There are references to the activities of Samori and comments on colonial policy. The account is accompanied by a covering letter from White to the Secretary of the Royal Empire Society, 12 July 1948, and the Secretary's reply, 21 July 1948.
Dates:
1948
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A journey to Asia and Africa
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011MMM-XXX
Scope and Contents
A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...
Dates:
1935-09 - 1936-03
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A memoir of life as a colonial officer in Sierra Leone, West Africa
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 376
Scope and Contents
Memoir (228 pages) accompanied by notes and rough drafts (circa 100 pages). An index is filed with the collection.
Dates:
1961 - 1964
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'A walk to the Nyassa country'
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 221
Scope and Contents
An account of Edward Steere's journey to Lake Nyassa written in Zanzibar, Lent 1876, 24 pages. There is an accompanying letter from Steere to Major Evan Smith, Consul General, 23 August 1875, informing him of his plans for the expedition.
Dates:
1875 - 1876
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A.C. Barnes collection on East Africa, Nigeria, and Fiji, 1914-1933
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468CC
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs on 64 album sheets with 24 loose prints. 225 relate to British East Africa (Kenya), German East Africa (Tanganyika) and Uganda, 55 to Nigeria, 4 to the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 16 to Zanzibar and 35 to Fiji (including some duplicates).The album sheets appear to have come from five albums, as follows:A Light brown, 230 x 275 mm. (Plates 1-56 on nine sheets)B Dark grey, 220 x 268 mm. (Plates 57-134 on nineteen sheets)C Dark brown,...
Dates:
1914 - 1933
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Accra Post Office. circa 1915
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448B
Scope and Contents
A collection of uncaptioned loose prints, measuring approximately 200 x 145 mm. The collection was exhibited in the Gold Coast section of the British Empire Exhibition 1924 and were deposited at the Royal Colonial Institute on the instruction of Major W.T.E. Wallace, Acting Postmaster General of the Gold Coast (see letter accompanying prints). Prints 11 and 12 show other Post Offices in the colony. Photographer unknown.
Dates:
1915
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Achimota College (A.W.E. Winlaw collection)
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448I
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints with duplicates measuring, unless stated, approximately 210 x 160 mm. The collection contains a variety of photographs, some of them taken by the Information Services of the Gold Coast/Ghana, while others are amateur photographs. Nos 1-5, showing Fraser in the Principal's house are clearly pre-1935, when he left Achimota. The majority date from Mr Winlaw's Headship and include a number of views of buildings put up in that period, particularly the Assembly Hall...
Dates:
1924 - 1959
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Africa miscellanea
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 113
Scope and Contents
A wide range of material relating to different parts of Africa, notably Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa and Uganda. Many of the papers relate to Europeans who worked in Africa, including army officers and missionaries. A number of the collections are comprised of single items, such as letters or artwork. There is also a significant amount of photocopied material. The titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is...
Dates:
1792 - 2003
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African land utilisation and settlement, Kenya
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046D
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints (originally 80 but lacking No. 75) measuring approximately 155 x 105 mm., with typewritten explanatory captions on the reverse. The collection, which illustrates the progress of land utilisation and betterment schemes in various districts of Kenya is identical, apart from minor variations, with the illustrations in the 'African Land Utilisation and Settlement Report 1962.'Photographs by the Aircraft Operating Company of Africa Limited, Johannesburg (Nos....
Dates:
1955
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African travel diary of A.R.H. Mann
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 116
Scope and Contents
A diary describing a journey from London via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons and South Africa in four volumes, each of 50 pages.
Dates:
1935
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African villages and townships in Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052I
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose prints measuring approximately 21 x 150 mm., with typewritten captions pasted to the reverse of the prints. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1966
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Alan Rudwick collection
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30448J
Scope and Contents
Loose photographs taken by Alan Rudwick unless otherwise indicated. All photographs are 215 x 165 mm unless otherwise stated. They fall into two groups; photographs of trade castles (1-28) and other views, chiefly of Achimota. Along the West Africa coast are the remains of more than 40 castles and fortified posts set up by European nations engaged in commerce, including the Transatlantic slave trade, with West Africa, the greatest concentration being in what became the Gold Coast, now...
Dates:
1950 - 1969
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Album of coastal profiles
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 6
Scope and Contents
Fifty-eighty pages of sepia drawings (12" x 6"), with captions and dates. The drawings give latitude and longitude, and appear to be competent renderings of coast profiles. The places featured include the Cape Verde Islands, Trinidad, Table Bay (including plan), Ceylon, Malaya and the East Indies, Macao, Sunda Straits, St Helena, Ascension and Britain. Some of the profiles, including those for Cape Town, Macao and Jamestown, St Helena, give details of buildings. None are signed, but...
Dates:
1783-12-30 - 1785-06-06
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Album of family photographs taken in Kenya 1934-1936
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3046G
Scope and Contents
A small brown album containing photographs measuring 135 x 85 mm, plus four index prints. There are handwritten annotations in the album or on the reverse of the photographs. Subjects include scenes of Treetops (safari lodge) and big game, the Gerra River Nyeri, the wedding of St. John Shaw and Mary Roe, the family's bungalow and garden, Silver Jubilee celebrations at the Nyeri Club in 1935, children thatching with banana leaves, a holiday in Mombasa, views of Mount Kilimanjaro, Free Town,...
Dates:
1934 - 1936
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Album souvenir d'Alexandrie: Ruines, 1882
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A
Scope and Contents
An album of albumen prints. This collection contains a series of views of destruction caused by the bombardment of the city on 11 July 1882 when the English fleet attempted to destroy Arabi Pasha's nationalist forces. The photographs are captioned in French on the photographs themselves.
Dates:
1882
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Albums by Francis Frith
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A-C
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of printed published volumes illustrated with albumen prints tipped on to the leaves with detailed text accompanying each photograph.The landscape and monumental remains of Egypt and the Middle East had exercised a profound fascination upon the European imagination for centuries, but it was only in the 19th century - and particularly after the impetus of Napolean's Egyptian campaign of 1798 - that visitors arrived in any great numbers. Scholars, adventurers...
Dates:
1857 - 1860
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Albums of Lt. Col. R.E. Thorne
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468DD-EE
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two albums relating to the career of Richard Everard Thorne (see Y30468DD/13), who was born in 1901, educated at Haileybury, and joined the Tanganyika Police in 1925. After returning home to get married in 1930, he served in Iringa (twice) and Dar-es-Salaam during the period 1930-1939. During the Second World War he was seconded from Tanganyika Police to the Somalia Gendarmerie. He returned to Tanganyika 1949-1952, then after attending the Senior Officers'...
Dates:
1941 - 1956
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Alexander Russell Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] photographs 1900-7
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052D
Scope and Contents
Collection of 5 " x 4 " copy negatives from an album containing twelve prints measuring approximately 155 x 110 mm, with letterpress captions printed beneath the photographs (in some cases different photographs have been inserted and the captions amended). The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. The album, created by Telegraphist and Postmaster Alexander Russell, offers an interesting visual record of Salisbury and the surrounding areas in...
Dates:
1900 - 1907
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Alexander Russell Southern Rhodesia [i.e. Zimbabwe] photographs, 1900-1901
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052C
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of modern 5" x 4" copy negatives from an album containing twenty prints measuring approximately 155 x 110 mm, with handwritten captions on the mounts in Russell's hand. The captions have been recorded as found and may contain offensive, inappropriate or outdated terms. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. An inscription on the inside cover reads: 'To Jack with best wishes for a prosperous future from Alec 1.1.02.' ...
Dates:
1900 - 1901
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Amy Wilson collection on South Africa 1901-1902
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305Q
Scope and Contents
A diary of a visit to South Africa, 100 x 120 mm, with original photographs and 4 cut from publications. The photographs include professional prints, but for the most part are amateur work, presumably by Amy Wilson herself, save for the few in which she appears. Most of the photographs can be linked to episodes described in the diary and many are captioned either below or on the reverse.With the aid of the lists published in 'South Africa' on the day of sailing from Southampton, 26...
Dates:
1901 - 1902
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Archdeacon R.H. Walker in Uganda
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045T
Scope and Contents
An album of photographs measuring approximately 105 x 75 mm or 75 x 105 mm and arranged two to a page. Annotations written on paper (presumably by Archdeacon Walker) are stuck into the album. The photographs show groups of people and domestic life in Uganda, including: crossing a swamp, a funeral procession, a village schoolroom, Daudi the infant King of Uganda, interior of the Parliament House, Apolo Kagwa the Katikiro or Prime Minister, Mr. And Mrs. Cyril Gordon, making a bridge, boat...
Dates:
1900 - 1901
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Fonds
A.R.H. Mann Collection, 1935
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468N
Scope and Contents
Collection of negatives, contact prints and enlargements. Mann travelled from London, which he left on 20 June 1935, via Egypt to the Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and the Cameroons to South Africa, arriving in Johannesburg on 31 October. 1-516 are enlargements of Mann's photographs and 517-575 are photographic postcards, chiefly of the Sudan. In addition there is a box containing the original negatives 45 x 45 mm with contact prints, but these have...
Dates:
1935
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Fonds
Armstrong family of Natal [KwaZulu/Natal]
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058D
Scope and Contents
A collection of three loose prints and one pencil sketch, of various sizes, with some identification on the reverse, which have been used as titles. They appear to relate to the emigration of the Armstrong family to southern Africa. Photographs by T.F. Haskell and others.
Dates:
1875 - 1900
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Army uniforms of the Empire and Commonwealth, 1860s-1940s
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011Q
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints of various sizes, printed reproductions and other ephemera relating to the uniforms of overseas military units. The prints are by various photographers. The file also includes a photocopy copy of Tylden's Royal Commonwealth Society Library Talk - 'The history of the overseas armed forces' (10 April 1960).
Dates:
1860 - 1949
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- South Africa (nation) 104
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- Tanzania (nation) 52
- Asia (continent) 51
- Egypt (nation) 37
- United Kingdom (nation) 34
- Zimbabwe (nation) 34
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- Sudan (nation) 26
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- China (nation) 16
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- Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Central Office of Information 8
- Church Missionary Society 5
- Thomas, Harold Beken, 1888 - 1971 (colonial administrator and historian) 5
- Elizabeth, II, 1926 (Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 4
- Longmore, Laura, fl1948 - 1998 4
- Smith, Sir (Walter Buchanan-, 1879-1944, Knight) 4
- Bosazza, Vere Louis, fl1973 - 1976 3
- British Overseas Airways Corporation 3
- Cashmore, Thomas Herbert Richard, 1928 3
- Christy, Cuthbert, 1863 - 1932 (explorer and zoologist) 3
- Rudland, Henry, fl. 1910-1915 3
- Simpson, Donald Herbert, 1920 - 2002 (Librarian of the Royal Commonwealth Society) 3
- Smyly, Sir (Philip Crampton, 1866-1953, Knight and colonial administrator) 3
- Banks, Frederick Grant, 1875 - 1954 (trader and planter) 2
- Barlow, Christopher Matthew, 1898 - 1930 2
- Bell, Sir (Henry Hesketh Joudou, 1864-1952, Knight, colonial governor) 2
- Best, Margaret Mary, 1872 - 1941 2
- British South Africa Company 2
- Campbell, Killie, 1881 - 1965 (collector of Africana) 2
- Cansdale, George Soper, 1909 2
- Dick, James, 1862 - 1926 (businessman and soldier in South Africa) 2
- Elizabeth, 1900 - 2002 (née Bowes-Lyon, Queen Consort of George VI) 2
- Ellison, Randall Erskine, 1904 - 1984 (colonial administrator) 2
- Falconer, John, 1951 (Curator of photographs, British Library) 2
- Frome, Edward Charles, 1802 - 1890 (General) 2
- Gedge, Ernest, 1862 - 1935 (colonial administrator) 2
- George, VI, 1895 - 1952 (King of Great Britain and Ireland) 2
- Gray, Sir (John Milner, 1889-1970, Knight and colonial administrator) 2
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Ministry of Information. West African Photographic Service 2
- Hartley, Diana, 1894 - 1986 (nursing administrator in India) 2
- Historical Society of Nigeria 2
- Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry, 1858 - 1945 (Baron Lugard, colonial administrator, soldier and author) 2
- Macfie, John William Scott, 1879 - 1948 (doctor) 2
- Mann, A R H, fl. 1935 2
- Margaret, Rose, 1930 - 2002 (Princess, daughter of George VI) 2
- Matson, Albert Thomas, 1915 - 1987 2
- Millar, Ernest, 1868 - 1917 (missionary) 2
- Mutesa, II, 1924 - 1969 (Kabaka of Buganda) 2
- Pedrotti, L, fl. 1902 (photographer) 2
- Philip, b, 1921 (Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II) 2
- Robinson, Wren, fl1928 - 1981 2
- Royal Commonwealth Society 2
- Smith, James Carmichael, 1852 - 1919 2
- Stanley, Sir (Henry Morton, 1841-1904, Knight, explorer, administrator, author and journalist) 2
- Tengely, Philip Louis, 1875 2
- Walker, Robert Henry, 1857 - 1939 (Archdeacon of Uganda) 2
- Ward, Mary Alexandria, 1866 - 1965 (nurse) 2
- Westgate, Thomas Buchanan Reginald, fl1899 - 1936 (missionary) 2
- Wilson, Agnes Maria, 1867 - 1957 2
- A C Gomes and Sons (1869-1917) (photographers) 1
- Alexander, Samuel, fl1878 - 1880 (publisher) 1
- Alldridge, Thomas Joshua, 1847 - 1916 (photographer) 1
- Atem, Yaak Atem, fl1984 (broadcaster) 1
- Azikiwe, Benjamin Nnamdi, 1904 - 1996 (President of Nigeria) 1
- Baines, Thomas, 1822 - 1875 (artist and African explorer) 1
- Barttelot, Edmund Musgrave, 1859 - 1888 (Major) 1
- Baskerville, George Knyfton, 1867 - 1941 (Archdeacon of Uganda, missionary) 1
- Beale, E, fl. 1930-1939 (colonial administrator) 1
- Bedford, Francis, 1816 -1894 (photographer) 1
- Bell, Christopher Richard Vincent, 1911 1
- Bell, Jane, fl1952 - 1981 1
- Bere, Rennie Montague, 1907 - 1991 (colonial administrator and naturalist) 1
- Bieneman, Gustavus Adolphus John, 1889 - 1956 (colonial administrator) 1
- Boosé, James Rufus, 1859 - 1936 1
- Botha, Louis, 1862 - 1919 (South African General and Statesman) 1
- Bridges, William Maclaren, 1898 - 1971 1
- Bristow, W M, fl1930 - 1960 (missionary) 1
- British Association 1
- British Broadcasting Corporation 1
- Bromhead, Walter Sidney, 1944 (author) 1
- Bromley, W P, fl1936 1
- Bruton, James Edward, 1838 -1918 (photographer) 1
- Busk, Charles James, fl. 1857 -1879 (merchant) 1
- Canham, Peter Holmes, 1914 - 1984 (colonial administrator) 1
- Carver, Harry Drinkwater, 1943 1
- Chandler, Francis Philip, fl1920 - 1927 1
- Churchill, Sir (Winston Leonard Spencer, 1874-1965, Knight, statesman and historian) 1
- Clifford, Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle, 1945 1
- Clifford, Sir (Hugh, 1866-1941, Knight, colonial governor) 1
- Cockburn, James Hutchison, 1882 - 1973 (clergyman) 1
- Collard, Charles Edwin, 1868 - 1942 (Captain Royal Marine Light Infantry) 1
- Coote, John Methuen, fl1903 - 1962 1
- Cotterill, J Rose, fl1866 - 1920 (née Bell) 1
- Cowan, Lilnas A, fl1889 - 1892 1
- Crosby, Oscar Terry, 1861 -1947 (traveller and writer) 1
- Dalrymple, Thomas Hardie, b. 1900 (physician) 1
- Datta, Rena, fl1951 - 1978 1
- Davies, Herbert Howel, 1872 - 1910 1
- Dickson, William L, fl1950 - 2000 (surveyor) 1
- Dunn, Edward John, 1844 - 1937 (geologist) 1
- East African Railways and Harbours Corporation 1
- Edgar, Florence Ann, 1941 - 2013 (née Clitheroe) 1
- Edgar, Thomas Leslie, 1919 - 1998 1
- Edward, VIII, 1894 - 1972 (King of Great Britain and Ireland, afterwards Duke of Windsor) 1
- Edwards, John, fl1786 - 1788 (Royal Naval Captain) 1
- Entebbe Club 1
- Entebbe Golf Club 1
- Entebbe Lawn Tennis Club 1
- Entebbe Literary and Dramatic Society 1
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