Uganda (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1973 Collections and/or Records:
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Lt. C. V. Hobart to George Wilson, 1897-12-31
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/2/2
Scope and Contents
Letter concerning the armed attempt to regain his throne by Mwanga II, Kabaka of Buganda, who had been deposed in 1897.
Dates:
1897-12-31
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Luba, Busoga chief, 1900 - 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/9
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Dates:
1900 - 1940
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Lucian Charles Usher-Wilson (1905-1984), Bishop of the Upper Nile (1936-1961) and of Mbale (1961-1964), 1930 - 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 29/17
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.
Dates:
1930 - 1950
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Lugazi sugar factory - ploughed land ready for replanting in foreground.', 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/68
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm.
Dates:
1952 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Lunch, Dufile, November 1898. Capts. Carleton & Collard, Lieut. Sykes & Dr Milne, 1898-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/5
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...
Dates:
1898-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Mabira Forest, Uganda, 1903 - 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/75
Scope and Contents
153 x 111 mm. A view showing a forest area cleared of undergrowth preparatory to sowing Funtumia Elastica seeds. An unidentified European stands in the foreground. Photograph by E. Brown.
Dates:
1903 - 1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Macongwa girl, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/159
Scope and Contents
A head and shoulders portrait. A caption on the page reads: 'The Macongwa live on the Ruwenzori Mountains, and I have seen some of their huts built over 11,000 ft high'.
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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[Macongwa people], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/160
Scope and Contents
The caption below the photograph reads: 'They wear leather skirts and live on bananas largely'. A caption on the page reads: 'The Macongwa live on the Ruwenzori Mountains, and I have seen some of their huts built over 11,000 ft high'.
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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[Macongwa people], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/161
Scope and Contents
A caption on the page reads: 'The Macongwa live on the Ruwenzori Mountains, and I have seen some of their huts built over 11,000 ft high'.
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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[Macongwa people], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/162
Scope and Contents
The caption below the photograph reads: 'They wear leather skirts and live on bananas largely'. A caption on the page reads: 'The Macongwa live on the Ruwenzori Mountains, and I have seen some of their huts built over 11,000 ft high'.
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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[Macongwa people], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/166
Scope and Contents
Showing three people walking in a stream. The caption reads: 'Leaving Kasenigo[?] market for her mountain home. She will probably climb 6000 feet on to with this huge bunch of bananas on her back'.
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Macongwa woman at the market, 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/164
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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[Macongwa woman at the market], 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304M/165
Scope and Contents
From the File:
A collection of photographs on 77 loose sheets. On one sheet, in ink capitals, is written 'Photographs taken between June 18th 1934 - December 1934, in the Lamu Archipelago, Tanganyika, Kenya, Uganda, Belgian Congo, Ruanda Urundi, French Equatorial Africa, Cameroons, Nigeria, French West Africa.' The majority of the photographs have been captioned by hand, in a difficult handwriting, and some of the names of peoples and places have not been traced in works of reference. The following...
Dates:
1934
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Madi Chief looking at the "Regiment", Dufile 1898, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045A/13
Scope and Contents
'The Regiment' was a newspaper.
Dates:
1898
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Magazine articles, 1885 - 1946
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 36/5/9
Scope and Contents
This file contains the texts of articles written by Bell, many derived from his diaries. They are listed below:‘The adventures of Futki the white elephant’ (three copies)‘The doom of Saint Pierre’‘Housekeeping in West Africa’‘The improvement of physique in Negroes’‘In a Japanese railway carriage’‘A motor cottage’‘My fishy friends in Nassau’ (three copies)‘My friends the cannibals’ (three copies)‘My friends the cannibals...
Dates:
1885 - 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Main entrance to the Faculty of Agriculture building on the main university campus, 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/13
Scope and Contents
210 x 160 mm.
Dates:
1952 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Main entrance to the Faculty of Agriculture building on the main university campus, 1952 - 1964
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/4/35
Scope and Contents
205 x 160 mm.
Dates:
1952 - 1964
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Main road to Kampala leaving Entebbe, 1906 - 1911
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/4
Scope and Contents
199 x 143 mm. A view looking back along the wide Kampala road towards Entebbe with a group of Ugandans lined across the road in the foreground. The neatly laid out group of huts to the right of the road is the Police and Marine Lines.
Dates:
1906 - 1911
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Mainland Africans, 1898 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468B/44
Scope and Contents
212 x 152 mm. A view showing a group of Masai women carrying loads of sticks and water, posed in front of an encampment of tents. Date and location unknown. One of the tents in the background is stamped U.R. 1898, so the encampment is probably connected with Uganda Railway work, and the photograph taken in, or after, 1898. Y30468B/45 and 47 are also by the same photographer (William D. Young) and show similar scenes.
Dates:
1898 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Mainland Africans, 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468B/45
Scope and Contents
207 x 146 mm. A view showing a group of Masai women standing in front of an encampment of tents, probably the Uganda Railway route (see Y30468B/44).
Dates:
1898
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Mainland Africans, 1898 - 1905
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468B/47
Scope and Contents
210 x 150 mm. A view showing a group of African women carrying loads of firewood and standing in front of a tent, probably on the Uganda Railway route (see Y30468B/44).
Dates:
1898 - 1905
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Major J. Macdonald to Sitwell, 1898-01-02
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/2/4
Scope and Contents
Letter regarding defensive deployments.
Dates:
1898-01-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Major J. Macdonald to Sitwell, 1898-01-19
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/2/14
Scope and Contents
Letter reporting the defeat of Mwanga’s army and instructions for pursuit of the Fort Lugwa mutineers.
Dates:
1898-01-19
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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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Major J. Macdonald to Sitwell, 1898-01-21
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 172/2/15
Scope and Contents
Instructions to intercept the Fort Lugwa mutineers.
Dates:
1898-01-21
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).
Sub-Series
Makere [?Makerere] College, Uganda, 1940 - 1949
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/270-277
Scope and Contents
Makerere was opened by the Government as a technical school in 1922, and two years later a class for training medical assistants was added. In 1926 responsibility for technical training transferred from Makerere to the Kampala Training College and Makerere became a general training college. A commission of inquiry into education in East Africa recommended in 1937 that steps should be taken to transform Makerere into a college of higher education and in 1950 Makerere became a university...
Dates:
1940 - 1949
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
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).