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Committee papers and memoranda.

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Two accounts of Moffat's term of service in Nigeria, describing his complaints about how he was treated, and a letter to the Foreign Secretary concerning his grievances. Together with a copy of an account relating to the purchase and use of a VW pick-up truck and photographs of Moffat's time in Nigeria.

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Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

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Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

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210 x 160 mm. Showing three piles of sacks of groundnuts arranged in large pyramids between warehouses and beside the railway track.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

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100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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100 x 102 mm. glossy print with 56 mm. negative.

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Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

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Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

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Showing African labourers queueing in front of a table in a village square where two Europeans are handing out pay. The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'At the height of the dry season as many as 2,000 labourers are employed to extend protective clearing'.

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Coloured slides, 50 x 50 mm, mostly Kodak, originally stored in a carrying case. They relate to nursing in Nigeria and Ghana.

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83 x 82 mm. Showing Bell riding his horse Pearl.

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Showing a man on an armoured horse. Salah (Muslim Festival).

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Showing a man on an armoured horse. Salah (Muslim Festival).

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Showing a man on an armoured horse. Salah (Muslim Festival).

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Personal correspondence, mainly relating to a friend of AFB's, Eric Marles, being ill in Ghana, with other correspondents including [James] Harold Wilson, Prime Minister, on AFB's 80th birthday.

Also includes: manuscript draft and typescript copy of AFB's diary of his and James Griffiths's visit to Biafra, December 1968; Christmas card from Major-General Yakubu Gowon, Nigerian Head of State.

Scope and Contents Personal correspondence, with correspondents including: 4th Lord Lytton [earlier Lord Knebworth] on Balkanization, relating to AFB's views on former colonial countries; Nnamdi Azikiwe [former President of Nigeria] wishing AFB luck [? on his journey to Biafra and Nigeria]; 1st Lord Simonds on a query from AFB about the salaries of staff in the Parliamentary Libraries; Christopher Dobson, Librarian of the House of Lords; Roy Strong, Director of the National Portrait Gallery on adding a...

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147 x 145 mm. glossy print with two copies and 56 mm. negative.

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Employment contract as an Office Assistant and Official Reporter in the Secretariat, Nigeria; pension documents; Gold Coast driving license; certificate of thanks for voluntary work with the Royal West Africa Frontier Force during the Second World War; programme for concert by the Gold Coast Police Band; a poem on the colonial service; and two Christmas cards.

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

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

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

Scope and Contents Photographs of masks, dress, dances, musical instruments and prospecting work, accompanied by descriptive captions and notes (82 x 57 mm). Benson introduces the album by writing, 'The photographs and notes which follow were collected during a prospecting trip covering 700 miles mainly in the north of Abakaliki Division, part of the west of Ogoja Division and along the Ogoja-Idoma boundary. The notes etc. refer to the natives, who have not come under the European or outside influence. The...

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Photographs, mostly captioned, pasted onto loose album sheets. Most relate to Marjorie Barnard's life and work in Lagos during 1936-37, with one image of an agricultural conference attended by her future husband Charles Lynn in 1930.

Scope and Contents Numbers 1-64 (205 x 155 mm) feature a reception given for the Smedleys by Kwesi Armah, Ghanaian High Commissioner in London, in Feb. 1964. Only the first two images are captioned.Numbers 65-66 (205 x 155 mm) were taken during a visit by the Smedleys to the Cocoa Institute in Kumasi in May 1964, and is accompanied by a newspaper articleNumbers 67-69 (128 x 80 mm) feature a ceremony at the Government Secondary Technical School, Takoradi, in July 1966Numbers 70-71 (205 x...