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Namibia (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

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A German soldier's grave, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/24
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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

Articles from 'The Field'

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 322
Scope and Contents Ten volumes of cuttings from 'The field', including a few articles from other publications, and loose cuttings concerning the Malay Peninsula. The volumes concern countries throughout the world, but in particular Australia, British East Africa (Kenya), Canada, India, New Zealand, Nigeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, Uganda, United States and the West Indies. The articles cover a wide range of subjects, including administration, agriculture, the British Empire, climate, colonisation,...
Dates: 1888 - 1921
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).
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At Kunene, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/29
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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

Bob Le Sueur in East and Southern Africa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 200
Scope and Contents

A diary describing Le Sueur's time in Africa, November 1997 - April 1998, 190 pages with a two-page index. The volume covers the journey out (pp. 1-3), Kenya (4-65), Tanzania (65-85), Malawi (65-98), Zimbabwe (99-113), Namibia (113-125), South Africa (126-152, 157-172 and 174-184), Lesotho (152-157), Swaziland (172-174) and the journey home (184-188).

Dates: 2000
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).
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Brooding ostriches , 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/31
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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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Bushmen group near Gobabis - These have had considerable contact with white men, 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3057C/1
Scope and Contents

170 x 122 mm. Showing a large group of Bushmen - men, women and children - posed in a village clearing.

Dates: 1927
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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Chandelier aloe, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/33
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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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Farm at Etyo [Etjo] , 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/25
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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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Farm in the Swakopmund Valley, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/26
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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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Herero woman, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/22
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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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Indigenous harvest, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/23
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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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Landscape with palms in the north, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/32
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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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Mossamides [i.e. Namibe], W.C. of Africa, 1884-03-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/40
Scope and Contents

219 x 140 mm. A view showing waterfront buildings at Mossamedes (Mocamedes) with the sea beyond. This fishing point is situated in Huila Province in south-west Angola, 200 miles south of Benguela.

Dates: 1884-03-28
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 James Dick relating to Southern Africa

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 193
Scope and Contents

Letters written by Dick in South Africa, 164 pages, with two maps and four photographs relating to Southern Africa. The collection is accompanied by two pieces of correspondence between Nancy Dick and D.H. Simpson, R.C.S. Librarian, 1976, regarding the presentation of the papers to the Society.

Dates: 1905 - 1915
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).
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Pending correspondence, The majority of folios date from November 1973-January 1974

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 6/5
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Bernard de Bunsen, Chairman of the Africa Bureau, on conditions for African nationals employed by British companies in Namibia; Baroness Tweedsmuir, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, on a Question raised by AFB in the House of Lords on Namibia; Joseph Murumbi [former Kenyan Minister of Foreign Affairs] on the treason trial of Kojo Botsio, former Ghanaian Foreign Minister.Also includes: issue of the Chile Monitor on the human rights...
Dates: The majority of folios date from November 1973-January 1974
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
 Series

Photographs, 1915

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 193/3
Scope and Contents

Photographs, 3" x 4", taken in Namibia, mainly at Walfisch Bay [Walvis Bay] documenting the activities of the 1st Durban Light Infantry. The photographs are assumed to have been taken by James Dick. The captions are taken from the reverse of the photographs, initially written in pencil and copied over in ink.

Dates: 1915
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

Photographs of Bushmen, Herero and Ovambo

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3057C
Scope and Contents

A collection of loose prints, mostly measuring approximately 55 x 85 mm, with handwritten captions on the reverse. The captions have been used as titles and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of their creation.

The term Bushmen was used to describe a group of Khoisan-speaking hunter-gatherers who lived in the Kalahari Desert.

Dates: 1927
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).
 Fonds

Photographs of the German South-West Africa [i.e. Namibia] Campaign, 1915

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3057A
Scope and Contents A collection of loose photographs (modern prints from original glass negatives probably taken by Stanley Archibald Markham Pritchard), most measuring approximately 190 x 140 mm and showing scenes connected with the occupation of Windhoek and a trip to Ovamboland undertaken by Pritchard later in the same year. Originals of these photographs (3-4 and 7-9) were used to illustrate a talk given by Pritchard to the African Society on May 11 1916 and the same captions are used here. The captions...
Dates: 1915
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).
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Publications, 1967 - 1990

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 199/2/6
Scope and Contents Pamphlets and reports collected by Hepple dealing with the abuse of human rights and workers' rights:Ainslie, Rosalynde, ‘Masters and serfs: farm labour in South Africa’ (London, 1973)Davis, David, ‘African workers and apartheid’ (London, 1978)Hepple, Alexander, ‘South Africa: workers under apartheid’ (London, 1971)International Commission of Jurists, ‘For the rule of law: a study by the International Commission of Jurists on apartheid in South Africa and...
Dates: 1967 - 1990
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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Shifting dunes near Swakopmund, 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/30
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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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SWAPO, 1972-02 - 1972-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 3/87
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to the Namibia International Conference held in Brussels [Belgium] in May 1972, organised by the South West Africa People's Organisation.

Dates: 1972-02 - 1972-04
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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War map of German South West Africa, 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 193/2/2
Scope and Contents

Title and text also in Afrikaans. Scale: 30 miles to one inch. Lined with linen. Lithographed and published by Government Printing Works, Pretoria.

Dates: 1915
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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Waterhole in the Kharras [Karas] Mountains , 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC South Africa/28
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Collection of monochrome postcards of German South West Africa.

Dates: 1910
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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Work on the Court, 1955-05

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Reference Code:  GBR/0014/LAUT 4/101
Scope and Contents

Advisory Opinion by HL for the International Court of Justice, on the South-West Africa Voting Procedure case, relating to the international status of South-West Africa [later Namibia].

Dates: 1955-05
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.