Scope and Contents From the File:

Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

Scope and Contents Collection of more than one thousand photographs, including negatives and colour transparencies with numerous duplicates, on meetings from the first Colonial Conference of 1887 to contemporary Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings.Origin of the collection:A miscellaneous collection which was built up over the years, with significant acquisitions from the Central Office of Information and elsewhere for use in ‘United Empire’ and its successors. Some images were given by...

Scope and Contents 'Developments in colonial status in the British Empire, 1900-22', 84 pages. The typescript is bound in a light blue cloth, with the title, coat and arms and 'The George Ludolf Siddle Prize 1923' on the front. The essay is described as 'an attempt to ascertain and to appreciate the changes which have taken place since the beginning of the present century in the relations between the various component parts of the British Empire. Treating the Empire as a united whole both the internal and...

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Press cuttings, letters, photographs, handbills, reports and other items taken from three albums relating to Sedgwick's trips of 1910 and 1912, and to his activities in trying to persuade private and public bodies and individuals to support juvenile emigration in the Empire. In the first box is a summary list and description of the preservation work carried out on the collection. RCS Library Notes no. 71, Nov. 1962, pp. 1-3, outlines the scope of the collection.

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Miscellaneous papers and articles relating chiefly to the work of a sub-committee of the Royal Empire Society which considered problems of migration in 1943. There are copies of the sub-committee's report and numerous duplicates of charts, appendices and other items.

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A collection of letters, pictures and two seals received in reply to the R.C.I. circular of 1904, with later additions, including booklets, newscuttings, newsletters and volumes. A summary list describing the earlier material is in the first box.