Boer War, Briars, Brooke, 1784-2006

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(file 1) Boer War, [1899]-2001 (papers dated pre-1986 are copies), comprising:

papers relating to Boer prisoners of war on St. Helena, including members of the Scandinavian Free Corps (specifically Adolf Schiel, Erich Mayer and Schack August Steenberg) [see also 'Postal history'].

(file 2) Briars, 1816-2006 (papers dated pre-1994 are copies), comprising:

papers relating to The Briars estate, mainly its links to the Balcombe family and The Briars in Australia [see also 'Balcombe'].

(file 3) Brooke, 1843-2002 (papers dated pre-1991 are copies), comprising:

correspondence between Robert Brooke, Thomas Brooke and John Scott, 1834-1869
'St. Helena's Social Revolution, 1834-1869. The Evidence of the Brooke-Scott Letters' by Hearl, 1991
will of Thomas Henry Brooke, 1849, with biographical notes by Hearl, Oct 2002

(file 4) Burchell and Banks, 1784-2000 (most of the papers are copies), comprising:

Dates

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