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186 x 238 mm. (L/R) Sir Bruce Greatbatch, (Governor Seychelles), J.R. Mancham, leader of Majority Party, Seychelles Democratic Party, Chairman of Committee III (Development and Miscellaneous), Lord Shepherd, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and F.A. Reno, Leader of Seychelles Peoples United Party, Chairman of Committee II – Natural Resources.

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138 x 192 mm. Mr Ted Rowlands, Britain’s Parliamentary Under Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Chairman of the Seychelles Constitutional Conference, greets James Mancham (right) Prime Minister of the Seychelles, before the start of the conference at Marlborough House. On the left is F Albert Rene, Minister of Works and Land Development in the Seychelles.

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Album containing silver prints of various sizes. The photographs depict Buchanan-Smith's outward voyage to the Seychelles in 1939 and also views in the Seychelles, mainly of scenery but including Government House. Other photographs relate to official and social activities.

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...

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This file contains the draft of a magazine article on noteworthy or notorious early colonial governors with notes, newspaper clippings and periodical articles that Bell collected during his research (50 sheets).

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123 x 93 mm. Local band in front of a hut.

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125 x 91 mm.

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118 x 86 mm. Huts inhabited by women affected by leprosy can be seen on Round Island. Leprosy patients were transferred to Curieuse Island in 1940.

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115 x 86 mm.

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126 x 82 mm.

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This file contains notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings and journal articles collected by Bell during his research into Charles George Gordon’s service in Mauritius. It includes copies of two letters by Gordon dated 1883 and copies of two reports that Gordon submitted in 1881 on the suppression of the East African slave trade and colonial defence. Some material was later added by RCS Librarian Donald Simpson (circa 150 sheets).

Scope and Contents Arranged by area, then by country (including a few which are not members of the Commonwealth):The Mediterranean 30Cyprus 11Gibraltar 3Malta 16Middle East 3Jordan 1Palestine 2Indian Sub-Continent 81General 1Bangladesh 4Bhutan 2India 51Nepal 1Pakistan 16Sri Lanka 6South East Asia 58Brunei 5Indonesia 1Malaysia 43Singapore 9East Asia 33China 3Hong Kong 29Korea ...

Scope and Contents 205 x 152 mm. A group portrait showing Kabarega seated with three of his wives and two other unidentified Africans. Kabarega (c.1850-1923) succedded his father Kamurasi to the Bunyoro throne in 1869 after a civil war with his brother. He then set about restoring the old Bunyoro Kingdom and by 1876 had conquered the neighbouring Toro country. His hostility to the British (who under Lugard had restored the autonomy of Toro in 1891) resulted in the invasion of Bunyoro. Kabarega was finally...

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139 x 204 mm. Mr Ted Rowlands, Foreign Office Under Secretary, in the chair when the Seychelles Constitutional Conference resumed at Marlborough House, London. Seychelles delegates opposite are, from left: Mr. F. Albert Rene, Minister of Works and Land Development; Mr James R. Mancham, Prime Minister; and Mr Chamery Chetty, Finance Minister.

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Fourteen letters concerning Rice's time in the Seychelles, many written by him to his mother, some incomplete.

Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...

Scope and Contents 624 x 148 mm (three prints joined). View from a neighbouring hillside looking down on Port Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles. The waterfront area is seen in the right hand section. The two left hand portions of the panorama show the landing stage stretching out into the bay. Cerf Island can be seen at the extreme left. A pencilled note on the reverse of the mount reads: 'Taken at low water to show the importance of keeping small pier or carenage open to public (closed by Harb....

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The diaries were written when Wood was chiefly in Nyasaland and the Seychelles. They include a few inserted sketches and photographs. There is an accompanying set of press cuttings and miscellaneous papers.

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154 x 202 mm. View of the head of a pineapple plant. A note on the mount reads: 'Pine Apple (Seychelles). Weight 15 lbs. 7 oz. Shape of coco de mer. Shoots at the top and sides number 21. (Presented by Mr. Bennett).'

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Collection of ten monochrome postcards of views in the Seychelles.

Scope and Contents Undated photocopies of writings on religious subjects, 41 pages. The title page records that 'these papers were written by Chinese Gordon and given by him to James Macalister, during a voyage from Port Elizabeth to Plymouth, on board the 'Kinfauns Castle', Oct. 13-Nov. 6. 1882'. The papers include an account of Gordon's theory that the Seychelles were the site of the Garden of Eden, illustrated with sketches and accompanied by four page of drawings. There are also five pages of...

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Collection of ten monochrome postcards of views in the Seychelles.

Scope and Contents Correspondence on the deportation from the Seychelles of the Seychelles People's United Party's Director of Public Relations, with correspondents including: [John] Anthony Kershaw, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; David Lane, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office; [Clifford] Tony Smythe, General Secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties; James Mancham, President of the Seychelles Democratic Party, inviting AFB to visit to see...

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Collection of ten monochrome postcards of views in the Seychelles.

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Collection of ten monochrome postcards of views in the Seychelles.