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202 x 156 mm. Picture shows: Mr. P.S.D. D’Aguiar, leader of the United Force, making his opening speech to the conference.

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Delegates at the British Guiana Independence Conference seated round the table in Lancaster House.

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205 x 152 mm. Mr Anthony Greenwood, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, makes his final speech at the British Independence Conference at Lancaster House in London, England.

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147 x 205 mm. Watched by Mr. Anthony Greenwood, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. P.S.D D’Aguiar leader of the United Force in British Guiana, signs the report at the end of the Independence Conference held at Lancaster House in London, England.

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205 x 152 mm. Mr. L.F.S. Burnham, Prime Minister of British Guiana and leader of the People’s National Congress, makes his final speech at the Independence Conference held at Lancaster House in London, England.

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155 x 201 mm. Watched by Mr. P.S.D. D’Aguiar, leader of the United Force in British Guiana, Mr. Anthony Greenwood, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, signs the report at the end of the Independence Conference held in Lancaster House, London.

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155 x 201 mm. Mr. Anthony Greenwood, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, hands the report of the Independence Conference to Mr. L.F.S. Burnham, Prime Minister of British Guiana and leader of the People’s National Congress, for this signature at Lancaster House, London England.

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181 x 152 mm. Mr. P.S.D. D’Aguiar, leader of the United Force in British Guiana, makes his final speech at the Independence Conference held at Lancaster House in London.

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155 x 203 mm. The Prime Minister of British Guiana, Doctor Cheddi Jagan (right), talking with Mr. B.H. Benn, Minister of Natural Resources, before the opening of the British Guiana Independence Conference at Lancaster House, London.

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204 x 139 mm. View looking across the river towards the party’s camp on the sandy foreshore of the island. The name Alexandra was given by the travellers themselves to this island just south of the junction of the Essequibo and Potaro Rivers.

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200 x 138 mm. View from the river shallows looking towards the moored boats and the camp beyond, with Europeans and porters posed among the hammocks at the water’s edge.

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Albums of black and white photographs from the tour of 1954 interleaved with typescript details of the itinerary and inserted press cuttings, postcards, maps and other items.

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204 x 138 mm. View looking along the Potaro River towards the cataract, with jungle covered mountains in the distance. Poor condition.

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138 x 104 mm. General view looking along the River Potaro towards the cataract.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises twenty-three boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. The majority of photographs are of Heads of Government, meetings and other conferences held in the U.K; conferences leading to constitutional progress and, in most cases, independence, of individual countries; visitors from overseas including those training in the U.K; and organisations, exhibitions etc., in the U.K. relating to the Commonwealth. Most were taken by COI...

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Series of off prints and cuttings by Davis from the 'Weekly Argosy', Georgetown, published during 1908.

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Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations. Many, though not all, of the slides were taken by Ian Maxwell.

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Includes material on Universities throughout the Commonwealth of Nations.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: George Cunningham; Edith Playel-Barritt; Dorothy Detzer Denny on AFB's health after a fall and a bout of pneumonia and an article about him in the New York Times; Joan Lestor on AFB's health; Lord Noel-Baker [earlier Philip Baker] on AFB's health; Miles Kahler, Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs; Julian Filochowski, Catholic Institute for International Relations, on an event with the Guyanese barrister Miles Fitzpatrick, also enclosing...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Phyllis Brockway (3); [Anthony] Tony Benn, sending good wishes for AFB's recovery after his fall, on the importance of the [World Disarmament Campaign, WDC] and looking forward to AFB's book on the Levellers ["Britain’s First Socialists"]; [Kathleen] Nora Brockway (3); George Cunningham; Ron Todd, National Organiser of the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), apologising for missing a meeting to finalise the organisation of the World Disarmament Campaign; N G...

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Two-part article by Davis in 'The Argosy', 27 August and 3 September 1904.

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Reprinted from 'The Argosy'; 7 sheets.

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240 x 188 mm. A view looking south west over the Georgetown roof tops from the Cathedral. The Town Hall and St Andrews Kirk can be seen on the skyline. The road at the right of the photograph is King Street.

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242 x 192 mm. A view looking south from the Market Square, with the open square, pedestrians and a horse tram in the foreground and Lombard Street beyond. The Demerara River can just be seen in the distance at the right of the photograph.

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248 x 195 mm. A view looking south along Camp Street. The street is divided in two by a wide canal in which are growing the huge pads of the Victoria Lily.