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Briefing for a meeting with the President of Botswana, with later correspondence.

Scope and Contents Comprising: "Report from Hackney", 1981; "Bigness is the Enemy of Humanity. Local Government and Local Democracy", 1981; "Crosland's Legacy", 1981; draft chapter for a book by Eric Midwinter on mutual aid, 1983; "Hours and Work-Sharing", 1983; "A History of the Future - a Project for Human Colonies in Space", 1984; "An American Assessment of Star Wars", 1985; foreword to Paul Harrison, "Inside the Inner City", undated [1985]; with Jeffrey Adams and Simon Folkard, "Coping Strategies Used by...

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Cuttings on Bechuanaland

Scope and Contents Correspondence regarding the Anglo-German Boundary Survey, with an index. The volume is divided into ten sections:Correspondence with foreign governments on the expedition for fixing the frontier between German South West Africa and British Bechuanaland, 16 May 1904 - 5 September 1906.Correspondence with the High Commission, including reports from Major Laffan on work being carried out; the appointment of an assistant, Mr B. de Vos Heathie, 19 December 1902; and part of the...

Scope and Contents Rough notes of meetings with individuals including: Isaias Afewerki [leader of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front]; Ibrahim Babangida [President of Nigeria]; Frank Chikane [General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches]; Yoweri Museveni [President of Uganda]; Nelson Mandela [President of the African National Congress] and F W De Klerk [President of South Africa]; Eduardo dos Santos [President of Angola]; John Morris and Paul Boateng; Quett Masire [President of Botswana]. ...

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series describes the contents of the personal filing kept by Margaret Thatcher’s while at No 10 Downing Street and are items which were of particular interest or importance to her. Many of these papers complement or are duplicated in other series. This personal files series was added to after her departure from Downing Street in 1990. There are some papers from Margaret Thatcher's early political career (1949-), but generally very little before she became Prime Minister in 1979....

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Paper submitted to the Royal Colonial Institute in 1884, but not apparently accepted. Comprises about 90 manuscript pages, with occasional pencil annotation. Relates to the territories 'northward if the Transvaal territory and Bechuanaland' in the period after the first Anglo-Boer War. Williams had entered the Colonial Service in 1884, and his first post was in Bechuanaland [Botswana]. In his later career, he was Governor of the Windward Islands and Governor of Newfoundland.

Scope and Contents Includes: tribute to Lord Brockway; speech to a Fabian conference on the Aims and Values of socialism; speeches for the fortieth anniversary of the National Health Service; speeches from NK’s visit to Botswana and Zimbabwe; speech to the Trades Union Congress; speech for Socialist International Study Days in Glasgow [Scotland]; Conference speeches; speech for an anti-apartheid rally; speech for a rally in support of the trade unions banned from GCHQ; speech on the Tercentenary of the...

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The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

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Papers and correspondence on Tshekedi Khama, Seretse Khama, and the leadership of the Bamangwato tribe, and the administration of the Bamangwato reserve, Bechuanaland [later Botswana]. Correspondents include: [Archibald] Fenner Brockway; Patrick Gordon Walker, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations; Alan Lennox-Boyd [Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton].

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Briefings and arrangements for NK's tour of Zambia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique on 8-18 July, with press cuttings, some correspondence and speech notes.