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Botswana

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

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Africa: meeting with Quett Masire, 1986-07 - 1987-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/24
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1986-07 - 1987-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Articles, 1981 - 1989

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/YUNG 2/1/6
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...
Dates: 1981 - 1989
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Bechuanaland [later Botswana], 1950 - 1952

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/NBKR 4/39
Scope and Contents

Cuttings on Bechuanaland

Dates: 1950 - 1952
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: With the exception of two files which are still closed, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence on the Anglo-German Boundary Survey, 1900 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 15/124
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...
Dates: 1900 - 1906
Conditions Governing Access: From the Management Group: 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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Meetings with African leaders, 1988-10 - 1991-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 10/1/37
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]. ...
Dates: 1988-10 - 1991-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Programme for visit by President and Mrs Masire of Botswana to the United Kingdom, 27-31 October 1980, 1980-10

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/THCR 1/20/6/9/31
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....
Dates: 1980-10
Conditions Governing Access: Opened in June 2015
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Speeches, speech notes, press releases and articles, 1988-06 - 1988-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 16/1/38
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...
Dates: 1988-06 - 1988-11
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Transcript of interview: John Edwards, 2007

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 113
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2007
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
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Tshekedi and Seretse, 1951-06 - 1952-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/2/58
Scope and Contents

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].

Dates: 1951-06 - 1952-09
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
 Sub-Series

Visit to Southern Africa, 1988

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/KNNK 19/4
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1988
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.