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Published and unpublished works on African history written by Gray, accompanied by research notes from archives and secondary sources.

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Memoirs of a career in the Indian Civil Service, first written in 1971, covering Brokenshaw's service as Engineer-in-Chief and Postmaster General in the Posts and Telegraphs Department. This copy was prepared from a typescript in the possession of Brokenshaw's eldest son, Frank (known as 'Brock'). Brokenshaw's great-niece, Veronica Moore, transcribed the original typescript and added an introduction and appendix to the main text in 2018. 300 pages, including covers and illustrations.

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A collection of uncaptioned glass plates relating to Buchanan-Smith's service in Nigeria, showing his official residence, duties and travel, and Nigeria’s people and landscape. Y3043ZZ/29 appears to be a Yoruba Oba (chief) from southern Nigeria. It may be possible to identify the images with reference to Buchanan-Smith's Nigerian photographs at Y3043U-Y.

Scope and Contents This unpublished manuscript was probably written by Burns sometime after 6 January 1973 and was transcribed by his grandson Andrew FitzGerald between 2013 and 2016. The formatting and content of each page have been reproduced as faithfully as possible to the original manuscript, and every effort was made to retain its style of presentation. The illustrated cover, however, was not part of the original manuscript. The scope of Burn’s history is set out in the table of contents:I....

Scope and Contents Approx. 384 outgoing letters from Buchanan-Smith, mostly to his mother, Christina Laura Buchanan (1852-1932), variously ‘Mumps’, ‘Mumpies’, ‘Mouse’ and ‘Mousie’, and father, James George Smith (1839-1915). There are occasional letters to his sister, Olive Mary Smith (1890-1965), variously ‘Oils’, and other siblings. The letters cover his colonial service in North Borneo and Nigeria, as well as military service during the First World War in the British Cameroons and German East Africa...

Scope and Contents The diary, 100 x 120 mm, is comprised of two notebooks bound together totalling 374 pages, and is lettered 'A.M.W. South Africa 1901-2' on the front board. There are entries on most of the right-hand pages, and notes, photographs, passes, tickets, cuttings and other souvenirs on the left-hand side. The diary describes life on board ship, visits to the Cape, travels in the interior, and events of the period in South Africa, including comments on the ongoing Anglo-Boer war, or South African...

Content Description Comprises photograph albums collected by or relating to Muriel Alice Jenkins (née Ackermann, also known as Sally), born 1904, and her upbringing in Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe], as well as the wider Ackermann family, together with photographs relating to Muriel's husband, the colonial administrator and judge (Edward) Enoch Jenkins, and his service in Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], Fiji, Nyasaland [Malawi], and Antigua (the Leeward Islands). The collection includes a small amount of personal...

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Archives relating to Lanning's work in Kenya and Sierra Leone, and as a colonial administrator in Uganda. Includes a series of ethnographic papers and publications largely relating to his archaeological research in Uganda.

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Comprises research material and photographs gathered by West in studying the Australian administration of Papua and New Guinea, and the careers of Hubert Murray, Lieutenant-Governor of Papua, and his brother, the classicist Gilbert Murray. Also included is West's unpublished memoir which provides much contextual background to his research and publications.

Scope and Contents A collection of letter books and manifold books relating to the work of the Gold Coast Transport Department. Some of the manifold books relate to troop movements to and from Togoland in 1914. On donating the collection, Migeod explained the provenance: 'when I retired from the Gold Coast in 1919, the Transport Department of which I was in charge, having founded it in 1901, was closed down as an independent department (only to be resuscitated later) and I brought away a quantity of official...

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59 letters to the Duke from various correspondents, mostly soldiers, statesmen and colonial Governors. There are also 27 letters from the Duke to Sir Richard Airey. The letters cover action in the Crimea, the relief of Khartoum and General Gordon, Roberts' relief of Kandahar and a report on the coronation of the Czar by Lord Wolseley.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises G.K. Roth's subject files on Fijian affairs, culture, history, sociology and administration. Some of the material is in Fijian. The subject files have been recorded as found [i.e. transcribed directly from the covers of the files]. The terms 'native', 'natives' and 'native administration', as used by Roth in his capacity as a colonial administrator to refer to Fijian people and the structure of colonial government, have been retained in their original context....

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49 page MS Word-processed document, with scanned family documents interspersed. No index or contents list. The memoir focuses on the family background of Sidney Fazan, his arrival and early life in Kenya, service during the Second World War, Gillian's childhood in Kenya and reflections on the Mau Mau period, covering the period up to 1964 when the family returned to Britain.

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Photograph albums, negatives and approx. 26 mins of film relating to Synge's time in Northern Nigeria, mostly covering the 1930s. Together with four volumes of Synge's transliterations of traditional Hausa and Fulani tales, and two publications by the donor, Lanto Synge.

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Letters, wedding photograph, press cuttings, and notes about the collection.

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1 folder of 342 negatives (double pages imaged), all in order and complete. Report prepared for the General Staff by Captain St. G. McRae, Indian Army, Intelligence Officer, Nyasaland.

Scope and Contents Volume 1 is a half-leather binding comprising manuscript extracts in various hands of local records, notes of cases, copies of letters and drafts, relating to administrative and financial matters from Smith's time as Collector of Rungpore. Approx. 250pp. Volume 2 is a vellum bound memorandum book comprising miscellaneous notes. The volume begins with a manuscript copy of a translation of Herodotus and is followed by a draft of parliamentary speech on the East India Company in 1781....

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Four volumes of newscuttings, three relating to Southern and East Africa and one to the Native Question in South Africa, and loose cuttings on related subjects. Many of the articles concern the activities of the colonial powers in Africa, notably Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France.

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Observations and correspondence regarding miscellaneous astronomical matters.

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Material relating Hywel George's tenure in St Vincent and the Grenadines, 1967-1970, as British Administrator and Governor. Includes: official publications, annual reports, collected papers on the eruption of Mount Soufriere in 1971, photographs of St Vincent mostly relating to George's official duties, pamphlets relating to independence celebrations, published correspondence relating to the volcanic eruptions in St Vincent and Martinique in May 1902 and newspaper cuttings.

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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.

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Comprises material relating to the Ugandan Civil Service in the colonial period and in the years immediately prior to independence from Britain in 1962 including reports, official publications, news cuttings, and photographs. There are also photographs, ephemera and organisational notes from the royal tours directed by Peter Allen, and some examples of Joan Cundall Allen's original artwork.

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This collection is composed of archives relating to Glover’s government of Lagos and the Volta campaign during the Second Anglo-Asante War.

Content Description Comprises papers of: 1. Charles William Lynn (1908-1985), agricultural officer, 2. Marjorie Lynn (née Barnard) (1905-2000), his wife, and 3. Sylvia Lynn-Meaden, their daughter. An earlier deposit of Marjorie Lynn's papers relating to Nigeria is catalogued at GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 363. This collection comprises correspondence of Charles Lynn, photographs of Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], Trinidad, Cyprus and Zimbabwe, as well as of the Lynn family, and subject files compiled by Sylvia...