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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 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 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.

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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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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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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Two photograph albums chronicling Wallis' period of employment with the colonial service and a folder of biographical information assembled by the donor.

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Comprises a series of photograph albums relating to Ward's work and travels in India, particularly relating to Rangoon and Calcutta, and various customs houses in British India. The albums also cover Ward's war service in East Africa and Iraq. There is a small amount of personal family material which gives an indication of the social life of the Wards.

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Comprises: four notebooks assembled by Johnston on aspects of law, history and administration in Ceylon; letter-book containing regulations relating to Roman Catholics in Ceylon; copies of law officers and counsels' opinions on various colonial acts. Note that 'Notebook V', extract from statement concerning the arrival of Chalias in Ceylon (presented by Professor Lee alongside the rest of the collection and listed in Donald Simpson's 1975 manuscript catalogue) is missing.

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Unpublished typescript memoirs of a Colonial Office and Commonwealth Relations Office official, covering his career from 1911 to 1967. With a forward by Sir Harry Batterbee. One of 100 duplicated copies prepared for presentation. 115pp.

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Comprises papers and printed reports collected during Nathan's tenure as Governor of Queensland and chancellor of the University of Queensland.

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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.

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...