Africa (continent)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 436 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Recollections of the Colonial Service in West Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 317
Scope and Contents
Photographs and memoirs of J.M.A. Sly's training and employment in the Colonial Service in West Africa and a record of his father's time in the service.
Dates:
2000 - 2003
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Redwood Natal [i.e. Province of KwaZulu-Natal] and Zululand Album 1879-80
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3058A
Scope and Contents
An album containing albumen prints, measuring approximately 190 x 130 mm, with handwritten captions beneath the plates. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation. The album contains views of Durban and Pietermaritzburg as well as Zulu War Scenes (at Fort Pearson, Isandhlwane and Rorke's Drift).Natal and Zululand in 1879.The photographs in this...
Dates:
1879 - 1880
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Reflections of Bishop Willis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 165
Scope and Contents
Reflections on Christian work in Africa based on experiences in Uganda, undated.
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Religious writings of Charles Gordon
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 16
Scope and Contents
Undated photocopies of writings on religious subjects, 41 pages. The title page records that 'these papers were written by Chinese Gordon and given by him to James Macalister, during a voyage from Port Elizabeth to Plymouth, on board the 'Kinfauns Castle', Oct. 13-Nov. 6. 1882'. The papers include an account of Gordon's theory that the Seychelles were the site of the Garden of Eden, illustrated with sketches and accompanied by four page of drawings. There are also five pages of...
Dates:
1960 - 1999
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Reminiscences of General Botha
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 207
Scope and Contents
An undated translation of a pamphlet of reminiscences of General Botha by his friends and relations, beginning with a piece by his sister, Mrs S.E. Hansmeyer. The translation was made from Afrikaans by Mrs E.X. Brain at the instance of Dr Killie Campbell. The volume is accompanied by a note listing the contributors and other details, supplied by the Killie Campbell Africana Library, University of Natal, 19 November 1970, and by correspondence of D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, 1970,...
Dates:
1950
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Report on rural development and education in Zambia
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 229
Scope and Contents
'Report to the President 1943-1974. From Chipapa with love. By Merfyn Temple. August 29th 1974', 114 typescript and photocopied pages. The report is written in the form of a letter dated 5 August 1974, addressed to Kenneth Kuanda, President of the Republic of Zambia, State House, Lusaka. The sender's address is Chipapa Village, Chief Nkomesha, Central Province. The report makes recommendations for rural development and education in Zambia. It is accompanied by an undated and...
Dates:
1974
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Reports on the Uganda Railway
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 176
Scope and Contents
The folder is entitled 'Kenya and Uganda railways and harbours: Estates Office, Land Policy Main Line Year 1897. Case No. LA 1001/E. B.W. Whitehouse's reports on construction of railway and the fixing of boundaries of main line'. It contains a letter from B.W. Kilindini, 3 November 1897, regarding his movements since 30 September (1 page); a letter from B.W. Maungo, 15 December 1897, comprising a 'Report on villages and occupied lands in the vicinity of Uganda Railway' (20 pages); a letter...
Dates:
1897 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Reverend Ernest Millar collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045L
Scope and Contents
A collection of loose prints most measuring approximately 100 x 75 mm., the majority captioned on the reverse, showing scenes in Uganda and portraits of personalities connected with Millar's career. Photographs by Charles William Hattersley and others. Many of the photographs are reproduced in Ham Mukasa's 'Uganda's Katikiro in England' (London 1904), edited and translated by Ernest Millar and hereafter referred to as 'Mukasa'. A few are also to be found in C.W. Hattersley's 'Uganda by...
Dates:
1900 - 1917
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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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rhodesia-Nyasaland [i.e. Zimbabwe-Malawi] Royal Commission Photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052L
Scope and Contents
Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...
Dates:
1938
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rhodesian records
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052O-S
Scope and Contents
Collection of five albums of family photographs, made up almost entirely of amateur snapshots between 80 x 60 mm. and 110 x 150 mm., and many of which are of purely personal interest. However, taken as a whole, they comprise a record of aspects of life in Rhodesia and elsewhere in Africa of interest to the social historian. The albums are carefully annotated by Zöe Ellison towards the end of her life (she died in Cambridge on 4 August 1986, only a fortnight after her last letter to the RCS...
Dates:
1915 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rhodesian [Zimbabwean] views
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052T
Scope and Contents
Collection of glossy black and white photographs, taken by the Rhodesian Ministry of Information and other official sources. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Dates:
1958 - 1965
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe 1965-1980
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052U
Scope and Contents
Collection of black and white press agency and official photographs (including 5 duplicates) relating to developments during 1965-80, from the time of Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of Independence (UDI) until the emergence of the republic of Zimbabwe. Many were collected to illustrate articles in 'Commonwealth in Focus', and some were reproduced in the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition 1982. The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found.
Dates:
1965 - 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Richard Frederick Rainsford collection
Fonds
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:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Robert Maddocks Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 361
Scope and Contents
Maddocks has written many articles on postal history, the majority reflecting his primary interest in the history of the Cameroons, particularly during the colonial period. He is the author of a monograph examining postal arrangements during the conquest of German Kamerun by the British and French during the First World War. His works also cover Nigeria, West Africa, Gambia, Zambia, German East and South West Africa, Togo, Ascension, St. Helena, Papua New Guinea, Jamaica and Barbados.
Dates:
1959 - 2013
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Rogers Collection on East Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468A-I
Scope and Contents
This collection of photographs relates to Roger's career on the East African mainland and in Zanzibar. Hardly any of the photographs are captioned, but there are some cuttings from the Zanzibar Gazette inserted and from these and from the Gazette itself it has been possible to identify a large number of the subjects with reasonable certainty. Some photographs are by A.C. Gomes and J.B. Coutinho; others are possibly by Rogers himself.
Dates:
1890 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Role and problems of broadcasting with special reference to the Sudan': M.Ed thesis
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 121
Scope and Contents
An M.Ed. Thesis for the University of Wales examining the role and problems of radio in Sudanese development, 184 pages.
Dates:
1984
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Ronald Barback and Nigeria
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 372
Scope and Contents
These archives relate to Barback's work with the National Economic Council Joint Planning Committee and his mediation of a trade dispute between the Nigerian Railway Corporation and the Railway Technical Staff Association.
Dates:
1957 - 1960
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
Fonds
Rosemary Guinnell's photographs of Fletcher High School, Gwelo [i.e. Gweru]
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052W
Scope and Contents
Collection of photographs of Fletcher High School (now known as Gweru Boys High School?), Gweru, Zimbabwe, probably taken by Rosemary Guinnell, all with handwritten annotations by her on the reverse of each print. A note on the reverse of one print identifies the Head Master as 'Frank Davies (Welsh)', and another reads 'Learning white Anglo-Protestant values.' Seven of the prints depict a presentation of a Midsummer Night's Dream in an open-air theatre built by the pupils. The other...
Dates:
1953 - 1961
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
Fonds
Royal Commonwealth Society Artefacts Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/ORCS
Scope and Contents
Soon after its foundation in 1868, the Royal Colonial Institute had envisaged the establishment of a museum, but following the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in South Kensington, and the creation of the Imperial Institute, the plan was abandoned. Over the years, however, the society built up a small, eclectic collection of objects as members donated items they had received as gifts or purchased during work or travel overseas.
Dates:
-2500 - 1970-05
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
School Empire Tours Record 1927-1939
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011FFF
Scope and Contents
A collection of photographs, by various photographers, relating to School Empire Tours, probably compiled by Miss Margaret Best. All the prints are captioned and some also have dates and places written on the back in Miss Best's hand.It should be noted that most of the images show groups of the participants, either before setting out or in the country concerned, but there is very little to show their activities - the 1932 tour to Canada is the best in this respect. It is clear from...
Dates:
1927 - 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Selection of photographic subjects of the Union of South Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305E
Scope and Contents
An album containing prints measuring approximately 205 x 150 mm or 290 x 230 mm. The album has a decorative hand-painted title page reading: 'This selection of photographic subjects is presented by the Railways and Harbours Department of the Union of South Africa [signed] [illegible], Minister 1925'. There are captions (in gold ink) beneath the photographs, which have been used as titles. The titles may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been...
Dates:
1925
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
Sénégambie-Niger reports
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 142
Scope and Contents
Five volumes of manuscripts. Each volume is bound in leather with the title and elaborate tooling on each front cover. They appear to be reports to the Governor-General from local officials. Each cover is marked: '1903-1904; Sénégambie-Niger: Cercle de ...' with the appropriate name. The books are full of lined paper, and neatly written reports, each in a different hand on the history, administration etc. of the area. Four of the five volumes contain a hand drawn map of the...
Dates:
1903 - 1904
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Senex Africanus'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 180
Scope and Contents
A carbon copy of a typescript of Sinclair's reminiscences of his time in England, Kenya, Zanzibar and Tangier, 177 pages. Although there is a list of photographs, the illustrated copy of the memoir is believed to be lost.
Dates:
1955
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
Fonds
'Setting up in Njombe'
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 373
Scope and Contents
This is an account by Norman Cuthbert, illustrated with colour photographs, of his colleagues and working life in the laboratory and factory, and of his wider experiences of the people and geography of Njombe.
Dates:
2009
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
Fonds
Seychelles photographs, 1880-1950
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30484B
Scope and Contents
Collection of loose photographs from various sources, of various sizes, mounted on card. Prints are numbered 1-3 since the first item consists of three photographs.
Dates:
1880 - 1950
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