Scope and Contents 157 x 203 mm. Picture shows a general view of the opening of the conference (from the left) Mr. D. Winton; Mr. A.N. Galsworthy, Deputy Under Secretary at the Colonial Office; Mrs. Eirene White, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies; Lord Longford, Secretary of State for the Colonies; Sir Hilton Poynton, Permanent Under Secretary at the Colonial Office; and Mr. P. Ratcliffe, Secretary General; (from the right) Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, Her Majesty’s Commissioner in...

Scope and Contents

147 x 201 mm. Picture shows: Dr. Seretse Khama, Prime Minister of Bechuanaland, making his opening speech to the conference. Lord Longford, Secretary of State for the Colonies (extreme left), listens attentively.

Scope and Contents

146 x 193 mm. Picture shows: Lord Longford, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, making his opening speech to the conference, Dr. Seretse Khama (right, hand to chin) listens carefully.

Scope and Contents

Neg. only.

Scope and Contents

203 x 156 mm. Picture shows: Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, Her Majesty’s commissioner in Bechuanaland, at the conference table.

Scope and Contents

146 x 193 mm. Picture shows: from left: Mr. A.G. Tilbury, Bechuanaland’s Attorney General, and Mr. P.G. Matante, leader of the opposition People’s Party, at the conference table.

Scope and Contents

207 x 153 mm. Picture shows: Chief Bathoen II, of the House of Chiefs, at the conference table.

Scope and Contents

188 x 151 mm. Picture shows: Dr. Seretse Khama, Prime Minister of Bechuanaland, making his final speech to the conference at the closing session.

Scope and Contents

150 x 198 mm. (2 copies). Picture shows: Mrs. Eirene White (left), Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, Dr Seretse Khama, Prime Minister of Bechuanaland, and Lord Longford, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, after the signing of the official independence report.

Scope and Contents

204 x 152 mm. (2 copies). Picture shows: Dr. Seretse Khama, Prime Minister of Bechuanaland, signing the official independence report at Marlborough House.

Scope and Contents

140 x 83 mm. A group portrait showing a row of girls with 'whitewash' decorations on faces, arms and legs and wearing what looks like fat bundles of sticks around their midriffs. Probably an initiation ceremony.

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Correspondence, arranged by subject, relating to Fergus Wilson's work for the F.A.O., with a few related papers.

Scope and Contents

A series of photographs of the University of Botswana. In 1975, the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland split between the three countries; the University College of Botswana began in 1976 and became the University of Botswana in 1982.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Kodachromes originally arranged in two sequences, which have been listed by processing number: 1-37 (numbers 11, 19 and 31 mare missing).

Scope and Contents From the File:

Contains Kodachromes originally arranged in two sequences, which have been listed by processing number: 1-37 (numbers 11, 19 and 31 mare missing).

Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 200 x 155 mm., with typewritten captions pasted on the reverse. The term Bushmen was used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert. The following explanatory note is pasted onto the reverse of each print: 'Since 1958 a special survey of the Bushmen of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve in the Bechuanaland Protectorate has been in progress. The other Bushmen have not been neglected, but the...

Scope and Contents Showing rows of tents laid out in three sides of a square at the Macloutsie Camp. 'Three troops of the B.B.P., under the command of Major Grey, Staff Officer, were also encamped on the Macloutsie, and a strong pentagonal fort had been constructed for the defence of the camp ... The site of the Macloutsie Camp had been carefully chosen on the highest ground near a small tributary stream called the Matlapouta, which supplied us with excellent drinking water. A great deal of work has been done...

Scope and Contents

156 x 205 mm. Showing two Africans beside a carcass in the flaying room at Lobatsi Abbatoir. The caption on the reverse reads 'This abattoir is of the U.K. Colonial Development Corporation's two major development schemes in the Protectorate - the other being an agricultural and ranching scheme in the Chobe Crown Lands'. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

Scope and Contents

203 x 155 mm. Showing an African boy driving cattle along a track. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

Scope and Contents

157 x 152 mm. Showing rows of penned cattle beside a road, with hills in the distance. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

Scope and Contents

87 x 87 mm. Showing a herd of long horned cattle on the sandy riverbank.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises twenty-three boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. The majority of photographs are of Heads of Government, meetings and other conferences held in the U.K; conferences leading to constitutional progress and, in most cases, independence, of individual countries; visitors from overseas including those training in the U.K; and organisations, exhibitions etc., in the U.K. relating to the Commonwealth. Most were taken by COI...

Scope and Contents

203 x 157 mm. Showing a herd of elephants in Chobe Game Reserve. The caption on the reverse reads 'The 4,500-mile Chobe Game Reserve, named after the Chobe River, a main source of the Zambesi River contains a superb variety of wild animals, including many species which are rare or extinct in other parts of Africa'. A more lengthy caption summarises the physical and human geography of the Bechuanaland Protectorate.

Scope and Contents Collection of 35mm colour slides of countries of the Commonwealth. When the 'Commonwealth in Focus' exhibition was being prepared it was felt that the strong emphasis on the historical aspect, and the fact that the only section on the contemporary Commonwealth dealt with broad issues and organisations rather than individual countries, made some additional material on contemporary developments desirable. Accordingly it was decided to have a continuous slide projection of contemporary...

Scope and Contents This is an unedited draft of a book in which Alexander set out to give 'a personal account of my contacts with universities in the developing countries of the Commonwealth.'It begins with the background of Alexander’s own university education at Auckland, Cambridge and London; describes Raffles College and the University of Malaya; and his work at the University of Ibadan and the contribution of its Physics Department during the International Geophysical Year 1957-58. Considerable...