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Desertification

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Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

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Algeria, 1969 - 1970

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 3/1
Scope and Contents

Papers and correspondence on the fundraising campaign for the Bou Saada Trust (relating to a pilot project to grow crops in the Algerian desert), of which AFB was a patron, with correspondents including [Cora] Wendy Campbell-Purdie. Includes photographs of tree planting.

Dates: 1969 - 1970
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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Articles, The majority of folios date from 1965.

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 3/4
Scope and Contents Correspondence on and drafts and final texts of articles by AFB sent to overseas newspapers and journals, mostly from the African and Asian press. Subjects of the articles include: revisiting Lincoln prison; Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; AFB's visit to the Soviet Union, 1965 [see also FEBR 2/10]; the Bou Saada project to grow crops in the Algerian desert [see also FEBR 2/10, 3/1 and 7/9]; the Vietnam War; the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation; the responsibilities of the...
Dates: The majority of folios date from 1965.
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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"Woman against the desert", 1965 - 1967

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/FEBR 7/9
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to AFB's and [Cora] Wendy Campbell-Purdie's book on the Bou Saada project to grow crops in the Algerian desert, including: a cutting and text of articles by AFB on the project; copy of the book's dust jacket; issues of "Trees and Life", the journal of the Men of the Trees, with articles by Campell-Purdie.

Dates: 1965 - 1967
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.