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Guyana

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

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British Guiana: Parliamentary Questions, 1964-11 - 1965-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/7/19
Scope and Contents Papers and correspondence on independence for British Guiana [Guyana], including: correspondence with Lionel Luckhoo, Commissioner for British Guiana, a pamphlet on the first 100 days of consultative democracy and notes by Luckhoo on independence; report by a Commonwealth team of observers on the Guianian elections, 1964; copies of Parliamentary questions on the West Indies and other colonial subjects, including a suggestion from Duncan Duncan-Sandys, former Secretary of State for the...
Dates: 1964-11 - 1965-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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Correspondence A - K, 1927-12 - 1928-12

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/1/15
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Herbert Baker on his plans for a new memorial area in Westminster Abbey [London]; Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, on LSA's return from his Empire Tour and on his impressions of Canada; Sir Otto Beit; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden, 1st Sea Lord; Alfred Beit; Richard Bennett, Leader of the Conservative Party in Canada, on the possibility of a uniform currency throughout the Empire; Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief of the Army in...
Dates: 1927-12 - 1928-12
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Gold Coast [later Ghana] and British Guiana, Malaya, Palestine and British Guiana [Guyana], 1924-11 - 1929-06

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 2/4/15
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell, Governor of British Guiana [later Guyana] on subjects including constitutional reform and the report of the British Guiana Commission, Hunter-Rodwell's wish to find another post, an anti-British campaign and the possibility of selling part of the colony to a foreign power; 1st Lord Plumer, High Commissioner for Palestine, on subjects including the financial situation of the Palestinian Government, relations with the French, particularly...
Dates: 1924-11 - 1929-06
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Lucas Family: business and family papers

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8369
Scope and Contents The collection is uncatalogued. There is an interim box list - please contact the repository for further details. Comprises business and family papers of the Lucas family, chiefly correspondence and legal documents of Philip Monoux Lucas (1778-1830), a merchant of Marylebone, London, and partner in the firm Chauncy, Lang and Lucas. Material relating to the Caribbean, enslavement and elements of the Transatlantic slave trade is largely to be found in box 1.Philip Lucas was...
Dates: c. 1733 - late 19th century
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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Papers of Sir Frank Stockdale

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10347
Scope and Contents Papers and letters of Frank Stockdale, mainly relating to his work in the West Indies, in particular his appointment in 1905 as Mycologist and Lecturer in Agriculture at the Imperial Department of Agriculture in the West Indies, Barbados, and his transfer in 1908 to the post of assistant director to the Department of Science and Agriculture, and Government Botanist, in British Guiana [Guyana]. This includes correspondence with Sir Daniel Morris, Imperial Commissioner of the West Indies...
Dates: 1901 - 1935
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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Press cuttings relating to Sandys visits to India and Ceylon [later Sri Lanka], December 1962-3, 1962 - 1963

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DSND 8/31
Scope and Contents

And cuttings relating to his visits to British Guiana [later Guyana], 1962-63, and Dublin, May 1963

Dates: 1962 - 1963
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the papers are open to researchers. Information about closures can be obtained from Churchill Archives Centre.
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Transcript of interview: John Sankey, 2010

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/DOHP 134
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The programme comprises transcripts of interviews with senior diplomats.

Dates: 2010
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Material in this collection is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue.