Scope and Contents The Course on Development began as the Course for Colonial Probationers in 1927. Previously this had been a short course held in London, but in 1925 the Colonial Office asked Cambridge and Oxford Universities to provide the course and the University set up a supervising committee in November 1926. All those attending the one year course were graduates divided into cadet officers (administrators) and agricultural probationers. The administrators then went on to the University of London for a...

Scope and Contents Comprises prize-winning essays received from the Imperial (later Commonwealth) Studies Committee. This series contains prize-winning essays for the following years: 1930-2, 1935, 1938-9, 1948-53, 1957-64 and 1966-73. Comprises essays, drafts and revisions, as well as published work. A full list of authors and titles can be found in Donald H. Simpson (ed.), 'The Manuscript Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Commonwealth Society' (1975), pp. 22-24. Unsuccessful entries, including proxime...