Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of loose prints. The prints are mainly British official photographs representing aspects of development in the colonies and are chiefly 250 x 200 mm. Captions on the reverse, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. The prints fall into subject collections.Nigeria: 1 - 8 Udi Village; 9-20 Ogwofia...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...

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66 watercolours, 150 x 200 mm in size. The captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Notes provided by H.B. Thomas have been incorporated into the description.

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A view showing a man sitting in a deckchair under a wooden construction with a canopy.

Scope and Contents Hand-written drafts of chapters from the second volume of AFB's memoirs, covering the years from 1939 to the early 1960s, and written as a sequel to "Inside the left; thirty years of platform, press, prison and Parliament" (1942). Subjects include: the Second World War; politics during the war; rejoining the Labour Party and AFB's re-election to Parliament, 1950; AFB's first visit to East Africa (Sudan, Uganda and Kenya), 1950; Jomo Kenyatta, President of the Kenya African Union; the 1950...

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79 x 53 mm. The extraction of two vans from the Kajiado drift. The vans were travelling from Nairobi to Tanganyika. They were freed with the aid of twelve oxen and twenty men after being stuck for six hours.

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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

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Collection of coloured postcards of scenery in Tanganyika Territory (now Tanzania) and British East Africa (now Kenya), reproduced from paintings by Miss A.V. Hammond exhibited in the Tanganyika section of the British Empire Exhibition of 1924. A caption on the reverse of each reads 'Copyright picture by Miss A.V. Hammond. Reproduced in Great Britain by Valentine and Sons Ltd'. Captions have been recorded as found.

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65 x 40 mm.

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405 x 150 mm (two prints joined). Photograph by William D Young.

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Two prints, 201 x 153 mm. and 200 x 155 mm. A panorama looking along the line towards distant hills, taken between Muhoroni (Mile 550) and Kibigori (Mile 561). Kibigori is the last station before the line ends at Port Florence (Mile 584, now named Kisumu).

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260 x 36 mm. Six-part panorama showing the kitchen, boys' hut, Equator Hill, Mission Woods and Hill, the Yala River Valley, Kakamega and other locations.

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180 x 36 mm. Three-part panorama showing the labour camp, store, garage, kitchen, and Benson's house.

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Two prints, 202 x 160 mm. and 202 x 156 mm. A duplicate of Y30468J/18-19.

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Two prints, 207 x 155 mm. and 206 x 160 mm. A duplicate of Y30468I/18-19. Another duplicate at Y304A/22.

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404 x 151 mm (two prints joined). Photograph by William D Young.

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Two prints 202 x 156 mm. and 204 x 156 mm. Duplicates at Y30468I/4-5 and Y304A/21.

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Two prints, 200 x 155 mm. each A duplicate of Y30468I/22-23.

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406 x 152 mm (two prints joined). Photograph by William D Young.

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Two prints 200 x 155 mm. and 201 x 156 mm. A duplicate of Y30468G/4-5.

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Two prints, 202 x 160 mm. and 206 x 155 mm. A duplicate of Y30468J/22-23.

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Two prints, 203 x 156 mm. and 206 x 157 mm. A duplicate of Y30468I/16-17.

Scope and Contents Papers, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, and postcards, mostly relating to Smedley’s time in Ghana, but also on affairs in other African countries such as Southern Rhodesia and Kenya.The file includes letters to Smedley from Dorothy Hodgkin (Institute of African Studies at University of Ghana), 9 December 1965; from S.A. Sykes (Deputy HC in Ghana), 4 February 1971; from Sir Edward Warner (British ambassador at Tunis), 24 March 1968; from F.H. Tate (business mission to Ghana), 18...

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A memoir and photographs of Fergus Wilson's time in East Africa, papers concerning agricultural education, material relating to Makerere University College, the Food and Agriculture Organization and other organisations, and miscellaneous items. A file of papers regarding the collection is with RCMS 162/1.

Scope and Contents The collection includes letters from Arnold Paice to his mother, father and sister Muriel Paice, and the description of a journey from Durban to Nairobi. It also preserves his correspondence with the Royal Commonwealth Society regarding their donation.Paice’s time in Kenya coincided with almost the entire era of white settlement, and his papers form one of the richest documents of an ordinary settler's experience. His letters to his mother, written over an extended period of time,...