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African Papers of Sir John Gray

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 126

Scope and Contents

Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

Dates: 1950 - 1971

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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'Colonialism: before and after'

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 392

Scope and Contents This unpublished manuscript was probably written by Burns sometime after 6 January 1973 and was transcribed by his grandson Andrew FitzGerald between 2013 and 2016. The formatting and content of each page have been reproduced as faithfully as possible to the original manuscript, and every effort was made to retain its style of presentation. The illustrated cover, however, was not part of the original manuscript. The scope of Burn’s history is set out in the table of contents:I....

Dates: 1973 - 1980

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Diary of Agnes Wilson in South Africa

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 206

Scope and Contents The diary, 100 x 120 mm, is comprised of two notebooks bound together totalling 374 pages, and is lettered 'A.M.W. South Africa 1901-2' on the front board. There are entries on most of the right-hand pages, and notes, photographs, passes, tickets, cuttings and other souvenirs on the left-hand side. The diary describes life on board ship, visits to the Cape, travels in the interior, and events of the period in South Africa, including comments on the ongoing Anglo-Boer war, or South African...

Dates: 1901-1902, 1952

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Edward Enoch Jenkins and Muriel Alice Jenkins (née Ackermann): personal papers and photographs

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 414

Content Description Comprises photograph albums collected by or relating to Muriel Alice Jenkins (née Ackermann, also known as Sally), born 1904, and her upbringing in Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], as well as the wider Ackermann family, together with photographs relating to Muriel's husband, the colonial administrator and judge (Edward) Enoch Jenkins, and his service in Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], Fiji, Nyasaland [Malawi], and Antigua (the Leeward Islands). The collection includes a small amount of personal...

Dates: 1850 - 2000

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Newscuttings on Southern and East Africa

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 332

Scope and Contents

Four volumes of newscuttings, three relating to Southern and East Africa and one to the Native Question in South Africa, and loose cuttings on related subjects. Many of the articles concern the activities of the colonial powers in Africa, notably Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France.

Dates: 1883 - 1932

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 131

Scope and Contents

This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Dates: 1861 - 1927

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Papers on West Africa

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 125

Scope and Contents Typescript and manuscript documents relating to West Africa, 127 pages. The papers were probably assembled by Gray for his proposed edition of Frances Moore's 'Travels into the inland parts of Africa' for the Hakluyt Society, which he was unable to complete due to illness. It is not known when they were compiled. There is an accompanying letter from A.T. Matson to D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, 17 June 1975, and Simpson's reply of 18 June.1. Biographical note regarding Francis...

Dates: 1970

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Photographs of William Joseph Ward

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302P

Scope and Contents

Comprises a series of photograph albums relating to Ward's work and travels in India, particularly relating to Rangoon and Calcutta, and various customs houses in British India. The albums also cover Ward's war service in East Africa and Iraq. There is a small amount of personal family material which gives an indication of the social life of the Wards.

Dates: 1911 - 1938

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Richard Frederick Rainsford collection

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304AA

Scope and Contents The collection comprises four small photograph albums and assorted loose photographs. The albums are labelled. The photographs have been grouped together loosely or in envelopes, labelled and arranged by year by R.F. Rainsford's daughter, Mrs Downend, prior to donating the material:1868-1919. Portraits of RFR and family.1910-11. Collection taken during Police work in 1911-13.1918. Kismayu during the Aulihan expedition 1917-1919. 1920. Kisumu jail; Nairobi Police...

Dates: 1840 - 1947

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Sir Alexander Johnston: administrative papers relating to Ceylon [Sri Lanka]

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 92

Scope and Contents

Comprises: four notebooks assembled by Johnston on aspects of law, history and administration in Ceylon; letter-book containing regulations relating to Roman Catholics in Ceylon; copies of law officers and counsels' opinions on various colonial acts. Note that 'Notebook V', extract from statement concerning the arrival of Chalias in Ceylon (presented by Professor Lee alongside the rest of the collection and listed in Donald Simpson's 1975 manuscript catalogue) is missing.

Dates: c. 1806 - 1827

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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Sir George Arthur, Superintendent of British Honduras: papers

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 270

Scope and Contents Arthur was an efficient administrator and kept copies of virtually every official letter he wrote during his tenure as Superintendent and Commandant. These include dispatches to Bathurst on colonial affairs and to the Commander-in-Chief, Jamaica, regarding military administration. Letters to neighbouring Spanish colonies reflect his diplomatic responsibilities. Part of the collection relates to Bradley’s dispute with Arthur, which went before Parliament in 1837. A series of Inland Letter...

Dates: 1803 - 1837

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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Sir William Allardyce: scrapbooks

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 35

Scope and Contents Comprises 12 scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to Allardyce's career and the colonies he worked in, including photographs, programmes and ephemeral material. Some content relates to affairs in Aberdeen, where Allardyce had been educated. The scrapbooks relate to the following: 1-3 Fiji: 1882-4, 1895-1902, 1902-3; 4-6 Falkland Islands: 1908-9, 1909-13, 1914-18 (including the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914) and Tasmania: 1920-1; 7-8 Bahamas: 1915-17, 1918-19; 9...

Dates: 1874 - 1927

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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'The Caribbean in international politics, 1670-1707': PhD thesis

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 257

Scope and Contents

A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, 554 pages, with a map.

Dates: 1933

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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'The Raj: India, 1890-1920: a story in photographs': typescript by Norah Burke with photographs

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 71

Scope and Contents A collection of 126 family photographs, with an undated linking narrative illustrating personal matters and giving an account of the Raj. The typescript describes the association of the author's family with India from the 1890s, when her grandparents, the Wrenches, were in the country, up to her father's retirement. The final chapter, 'The end of 300 years in India' reflects on Indian independence.The photographs were taken by Redmond, Aileen and Hubert Burke, and others. Some are...

Dates: 1890 - 1971

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Found in: Cambridge University Library

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West Indian documents

Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 263

Scope and Contents

Loose papers and one newspaper from Patrick and his son James Colquhoun's correspondence files. RCMS 263/1-9 have a cover headed 'Nevis 1820' and RCMS 263/11-31 are in a similar cover '1832 West Indies'. Each has a note of contents, but these do not tally exactly with the items now present.

Dates: 1820 - 1832

Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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African Papers of Sir John Gray

'Colonialism: before and after'

Diary of Agnes Wilson in South Africa

Edward Enoch Jenkins and Muriel Alice Jenkins (née Ackermann): personal papers and photographs

Newscuttings on Southern and East Africa

Papers of Sir John Hawley Glover

Papers on West Africa

Photographs of William Joseph Ward

Richard Frederick Rainsford collection

Sir Alexander Johnston: administrative papers relating to Ceylon [Sri Lanka]

Sir George Arthur, Superintendent of British Honduras: papers

Sir William Allardyce: scrapbooks

'The Caribbean in international politics, 1670-1707': PhD thesis

'The Raj: India, 1890-1920: a story in photographs': typescript by Norah Burke with photographs

West Indian documents

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