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Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

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Sir Ralph Champneys Williams: 'The native races of Central South Africa'

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 197
Scope and Contents

Paper submitted to the Royal Colonial Institute in 1884, but not apparently accepted. Comprises about 90 manuscript pages, with occasional pencil annotation. Relates to the territories 'northward if the Transvaal territory and Bechuanaland' in the period after the first Anglo-Boer War. Williams had entered the Colonial Service in 1884, and his first post was in Bechuanaland [Botswana]. In his later career, he was Governor of the Windward Islands and Governor of Newfoundland.

Dates: 1884
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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Sir William Allardyce: scrapbooks

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 35
Scope and Contents Comprises 12 scrapbooks of newscuttings relating to Allardyce's career and the colonies he worked in, including photographs, programmes and ephemeral material. Some content relates to affairs in Aberdeen, where Allardyce had been educated. The scrapbooks relate to the following: 1-3 Fiji: 1882-4, 1895-1902, 1902-3; 4-6 Falkland Islands: 1908-9, 1909-13, 1914-18 (including the Battle of the Falkland Islands, 1914) and Tasmania: 1920-1; 7-8 Bahamas: 1915-17, 1918-19; 9...
Dates: 1874 - 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).
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'The Caribbean in international politics, 1670-1707': PhD thesis

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 257
Scope and Contents

A Ph.D. thesis for the University of London, 554 pages, with a map.

Dates: 1933
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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'The Raj: India, 1890-1920: a story in photographs': typescript by Norah Burke with photographs

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 71
Scope and Contents A collection of 126 family photographs, with an undated linking narrative illustrating personal matters and giving an account of the Raj. The typescript describes the association of the author's family with India from the 1890s, when her grandparents, the Wrenches, were in the country, up to her father's retirement. The final chapter, 'The end of 300 years in India' reflects on Indian independence.The photographs were taken by Redmond, Aileen and Hubert Burke, and others. Some are...
Dates: 1890 - 1971
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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West Indian documents

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 263
Scope and Contents

Loose papers and one newspaper from Patrick and his son James Colquhoun's correspondence files. RCMS 263/1-9 have a cover headed 'Nevis 1820' and RCMS 263/11-31 are in a similar cover '1832 West Indies'. Each has a note of contents, but these do not tally exactly with the items now present.

Dates: 1820 - 1832
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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