Zambia (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 415 Collections and/or Records:
Item
One of the lioma (royal drums) with its carvings at Limulunga, the Paramount's flood season capital, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/81
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates:
Other: 1945
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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One of the special-type houses for senior African employees at Nchanga Mine, 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30521C/45
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of black and white photographs arranged under broad headings in approximate chronological order within each heading, the majority of which were captioned by R.S. Thompson at the time of donation. The captions, used as titles and recorded in the notes, may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets. The photographs...
Dates:
1951
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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Oxhide stretched to dry on a frame, 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/67
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates:
Other: 1945
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 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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Paramount Yeta's liomba at work in Little River, near Nanikelako in 1942, 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/38
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates:
1942
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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Paramount Yeta's liomba at work in Little River, near Nanikelako in 1942, 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/39
Scope and Contents
Net being closed across the river.
Dates:
1942
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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Paramount Yeta's liomba at work in Little River, near Nanikelako in 1942, 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/40
Scope and Contents
Men waiting for fish to jump on to the trays where they are killed.
Dates:
1942
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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Paramount Yeta's liomba at work in Little River, near Nanikelako in 1942, 1942
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/42
Scope and Contents
Men and boys stabbing fish which escape at the sides.
Dates:
1942
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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Part of Nalolo, the capital of the Mulena Mukwae (Litunga-la- Mboela), the second chief of Barotseland, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates:
1945
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).
Item
Peeling cassava roots after soaking , 1950 - 1966
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30521C/61
Scope and Contents
Note: cassava is the staple diet of the Ba-Bemba tribe of Northern Rhodesia.
Dates:
1950 - 1966
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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Philip shows the book to Mulenga and explains what the letters and pictures mean, 1940 - 1949
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/445
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
A series of British Official photographs (Crown Copyright Reserved). They each have the following typewritten caption on the reverse:'This series of photographs show how illiterate natives of Northern Rhodesia are being taught to read and write in a short course lasting 3 or 4 weeks with the aid of a book called 'Shibukeni' using pictures in relation to words of common usage. The adult student for which the course is devised need not go to school; all that is needed is the wish to...
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).
Series
Photographs of Barotseland [i.e. Western province in Zambia], circa 1945, 1945
Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/1-97
Scope and Contents
A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates:
1945
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).
File
Photographs of the South African High Commission Territories 1910-1911, 1910 - 1911
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30546A
Scope and Contents
Contains prints of various sizes with handwritten captions on the reverse and taken by various photographers: E.S.W. Green (Sub-Inspector of Police, Basutoland), R.W. Booth (Clerk and Assistant Resident Magistrate, Bechuanaland), Quartermaster Sergeant Fosdyce [i.e. Fosdyke] (Bechuanaland Protectorate Police), Lieutenant G.B. Moseley (Sub-Inspector of Police, Bechuanaland) and others unidentified. The photographs break down into geographical units thus: Y30546A/1-14 Basutoland [now...
Dates:
1910 - 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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Plaque unveiled at old Chitambo on 1 May 1973 to mark the centenary of David Livingstone’s death, 1973
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/17/4
Scope and Contents
181 x 95 mm. glossy print.
Dates:
1973
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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President Kyprianou of Cyprus with President Kaunda of Zambia, 1979
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3018J/10
Scope and Contents
Also pictured is Commonwealth Secretary-General Dr Ramphal at CHOGM 1979 (Lusaka)
Dates:
1979
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).
File
Programme for the visit of Governor General, 1962
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 348/2/7/9
Scope and Contents
The programme for the visit of their Excellencies the Governor General and the Countess of Dalhousie to Livingstone and Mongu, 28-31 July 1962.
Dates:
1962
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
Progress in the Colonies, 1940s-1950s
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011R
Scope and Contents
A collection of prints produced by the Central Office of Information. The prints measure approximately 165 x 115 mm and have typewritten captions pasted onto the reverse. A sheet of paper with the prints gives the title: 'Progress in the Colonies. Rejected photographs'. This selection appears to be part of a larger series of prints -the captions are often numbered and frequently make references to 'Feature Sets'. The photographs illustrate post-war developments in agriculture,...
Dates:
1940 - 1959
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Provincial and District Commissioners leaving a (Court House) in a bushcar. Monqu, Barotseland, 1938-07-29
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3052L/57
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Collection of prints inserted in a bound copy of the Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission Report (Cmd. 5949) 1939. Written on the title page is 'Illustrated with the Chairman's snapshot photographs.' Plate 1 is inside the front cover; the remainder are in pairs on sheets of paper bound into the volume at intervals. They are prints of sharp definition and high quality, mostly 140 x 90 mm, but numbers 5, 17, 18, 44, 46 and 47 are approximately 95 x 120 mm. All have hand-written captions. ...
Dates:
1938-07-29
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).
Item
Raising root-crops (sweet potatoes, sweet cassava, Livingstone potato or sikuswani, and some maize) out of the flood, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/20
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates:
1945
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).
Item
Rebuilding the Lunga Bridge at Mwinilunga in 1955, 1955
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30521C/32
Scope and Contents
This was the only road linking the town with the Copperbelt.
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).
File
Recollections of Jeremy Varcoe CMG, 2021
File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 202
Scope and Contents
This is an edited version of a personal memoir which Jeremy Varcoe wrote for his family.
Dates:
2021
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.
Item
Reed-fence at Nalusa, near Lialui, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/29
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates:
1945
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).
Item
Reed fences to shut in fish brought down by flood, 1945
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304E/28
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
A collection of numbered prints, unless otherwise stated measuring circa 210 x 160 mm, in a 19 page typescript volume entitled 'Barotseland', written and illustrated by Max Gluckman. His typescript is undated but the illustrations closely resemble, and in some cases are identical with, those used in Gluckman (1945) of which a photocopy is filed with this collection. It is not known how these photographs were used - perhaps projected by epidiascope. Numbers 1-54 are captioned on the back,...
Dates:
1945
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).
Item
Remarks on the coloured slides of Northern Rhodesia, 1913 - 1914
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 195/1
Scope and Contents
Notes on the colouring of four slides: 32, 64, 92 and one of Tanganyika.
Dates:
1913 - 1914
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
Report on rural development and education in Zambia
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 229
Scope and Contents
'Report to the President 1943-1974. From Chipapa with love. By Merfyn Temple. August 29th 1974', 114 typescript and photocopied pages. The report is written in the form of a letter dated 5 August 1974, addressed to Kenneth Kuanda, President of the Republic of Zambia, State House, Lusaka. The sender's address is Chipapa Village, Chief Nkomesha, Central Province. The report makes recommendations for rural development and education in Zambia. It is accompanied by an undated and...
Dates:
1974
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library