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Udi (inhabited place)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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A mass literacy class for children in the experimental education scheme at Udi, 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/66
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'The children are being taught as a first stage to write in the sand'.

Dates: 1944
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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Band practice, Udi District, 1933 - 1964

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304Q/4/48
Scope and Contents

210 x 160 mm. Showing five boys lined up playing wind instruments.

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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[Class in progress, Udi, 1944], 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/65
Scope and Contents

The typewritten caption on the reverse reads 'Mr. A. Odita, District Clerk of Udi Division in Southern Nigeria, teaching a class in his spare time at the Mass Education Centre in Udi Town. Notice that this small class is composed entirely of women'.

Dates: 1944
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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Udi Village, 1945-08-21

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/4
Scope and Contents Showing a youth writing on a blackboard with the date 21/8/45. A typewritten caption (which duplicates most of a pencilled annotation) on the reverse reads 'During the war literacy pupils sent letters to their soldier relatives abroad. Those who could copy but not compose a letter used to copy as an exercise a letter giving the Udi Village news'. The annotation continues 'Thus each batch of letters would contain about 40 that were all the same but as each went to a different soldier that...
Dates: 1945-08-21
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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Udi Village. Co-operative Shop, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/3
Scope and Contents

A single storey stone building with corrugated-iron roof.

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).
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Udi Village. Mass Literacy class, 1940 - 1949

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011U/5
Scope and Contents

Showing a row of women at a table in the open air receiving instruction. A typewritten caption (which duplicates most of a pencilled annotation) on the reverse reads 'This is the 'top' class for women - normally 12. These are wives of miners at Enugu and of N.A. [Native Administration] employees'. The annotation continues 'Note these women are well dressed'.

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).