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Uganda (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1973 Collections and/or Records:

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Out of the long grass, 1964

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162/2/1/4
Scope and Contents

'A description of the help being given to the small farmers in the fertile crescent area of Uganda', an article taken from 'The Shell magazine', April 1964, pp. 108-110.

Dates: 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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Outside of the dining room of the White Horse Inn, Kabale, 6,000 feet above sea level, almost on the Congo borders, 1955

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/86
Scope and Contents

55 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1955
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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"Outside the Right": draft chapters, c 1961-63

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 7/4
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...
Dates: c 1961-63
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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[Outskirts of forest, Mianzini, Lykipia], 1889-08-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/10
Scope and Contents

113 x 154 mm. (modern print from original negative). A similar view to Y30468K/9, but without Gedge in the foreground.

Dates: 1889-08-22
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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Outskirts of Forest with E.G., Mianzini, Lykipia, 1889-08-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30468K/9
Scope and Contents

113 x 155 mm. Showing Gedge standing among tall forest trees at Mianzini. The photographing of this and the following print are briefly recorded by Gedge: ‘Took a couple of photos in the afternoon of the forest.’

Dates: 1889-08-22
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-sub-class

Owen Falls and the dam, Jinja, 1955

 Sub-sub-class
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045W/62-65
Scope and Contents

55 x 50 mm.

Dates: 1955
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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Owen Falls Dam, Powerstation - Uganda, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/1/13
Scope and Contents From the File:

35 mm slides. Images of Owen Falls Dam in Uganda, hill farming, tea picking and general landscape views.

Dates: 1933 - 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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Owen Falls Dam - Uganda, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/1/10
Scope and Contents From the File:

35 mm slides. Images of Owen Falls Dam in Uganda, hill farming, tea picking and general landscape views.

Dates: 1933 - 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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Owen Falls Dam - Uganda, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/1/11
Scope and Contents From the File:

35 mm slides. Images of Owen Falls Dam in Uganda, hill farming, tea picking and general landscape views.

Dates: 1933 - 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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Owen Falls Dam - Uganda, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/10/1/14
Scope and Contents From the File:

35 mm slides. Images of Owen Falls Dam in Uganda, hill farming, tea picking and general landscape views.

Dates: 1933 - 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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Owen Falls - Jinja, 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/52
Scope and Contents

77 x 52 mm.

Dates: 1928
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

[Paintings and sculptures], 1952 - 1964

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/7/1/3
Scope and Contents

Eighteen colour photographs of paintings and sculptures, and three black and white photographs of sculptures, presumably work by Makerere University students. Three have been described here.

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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Panorama of Entebbe, 1908 - 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/77
Scope and Contents

742 x 114 mm. Five prints joined. A view from the hillside behind the town looking towards Lake Victoria, with the Kampala Road leading off northwards at the left of the panorama and Government House at the extreme right.

Dates: 1908 - 1912
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).
 Fonds

Papers and photographs of Fergus Wilson

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 162
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1933 - 1999
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).
 Fonds

Papers and photographs of J.M. Coote

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 316
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, a printed pamphlet and photographs relating predominantly to Coote's time in East Africa, but with a few photographs from Persia.

Dates: 1903 - 1962
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).
 Fonds

Papers of Cuthbert Christy

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 124
Scope and Contents

Diaries, notes, letters, reports, publications and maps written or collected by Christy during his medical and zoological work in Scotland, Africa and India.

Dates: 1889 - 1930
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).
 Fonds

Papers of H.B. Thomas

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150
Scope and Contents

Material concerning H.B. Thomas and his academic work on Africa. Much of the collection is comprised of correspondence relating to Thomas' involvement with different organisations, projects and publications.

Dates: 1780 - 1973
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).
 Fonds

Papers of Peter Allen and Joan Cundall relating to Uganda

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 397
Scope and Contents

Comprises material relating to the Ugandan Civil Service in the colonial period and in the years immediately prior to independence from Britain in 1962 including reports, official publications, news cuttings, and photographs. There are also photographs, ephemera and organisational notes from the royal tours directed by Peter Allen, and some examples of Joan Cundall Allen's original artwork.

Dates: 1936 - 2016
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).
 Fonds

Papers of the Entebbe clubs

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 171
Scope and Contents

Minute books of the Entebbe societies and correspondence of the Entebbe Club.

Dates: 1900 - 1955
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).
 Sub-Series

Papers on subjects, 1936 - 1971

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150/5/1
Scope and Contents

Much of the material relates to Uganda (nos 1-14), but there are also papers regarding Kenya and other parts of Africa (nos 15-21).

Dates: 1936 - 1971
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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Papers on Uganda, 1960 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 150/3/1/6
Scope and Contents

Background notes.

Dates: 1960 - 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).
 Fonds

Papers on women in Uganda

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 166
Scope and Contents

Three papers regarding Ugandan women and correspondence regarding the Bell photographs presented to the R.C.S.

Dates: 1961 - 1981
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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Papyrus Swamp, Masaka Road, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6/13
Scope and Contents

80 x 130 mm.

Dates: 1925
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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Para rubber seedlings, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/54
Scope and Contents

149 x 103 mm. Showing Ugandan boys tending para rubber seedlings under the supervision of a European official, possibly H. Batey.

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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Para rubber tree 2 and a half years old, 1906 - 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3045C/55
Scope and Contents

102 x 150 mm. Showing a Ugandan youth standing beside a young tree in an experimental rubber plantation.

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).