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Commonwealth Material, 1948-1970

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Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 408/1
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Contains:

  1. (fols. 3-35) Colonial policy and constitutional development, 1955-1964
  2. (fols. 36-158) The future of the Commonwealth (dated: 1957) and Ditchley Conference (dated: 1963)
  3. (fols. 159-180) Conservative Commonwealth and Overseas Council: Annual Conference, Papers, 1966
  4. (fols. 181-197) Voluntary Service overseas, 1960 and 1964
  5. (item 1) A. Dickson: Voluntary Service Overseas, the Thomas Holland Memorial Lecture, 1960
  6. (items 2 and 3) Voluntary Service Overseas, opportunities of service (two copies), 1960
  7. (fols. 198-259) 'Why the Commonwealth now?' Royal Commonwealth Society, Southampton Spring School: papers; and an undated address at Edinburgh Conference, 1966
  8. (fols. 260-329) Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, including the Report of the first African Conference (dated: 1956), 1948-1966
  9. (item 4) the first African Conference on work for the blind, Lagos, 1966
  10. (item 5) Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind: Our aim, achievement, opportunity, 1964
  11. (item 6) Colonial Office. Report: Blindness in British African and Middle East Territories, 1948
  12. (item 7) John Wilson: Blind people in Africa. (Corona, May 1958, pp. 168-170), 1958
  13. (item 8) Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, Annual Report and accounts (dated: 1961), 1961-1962
  14. (item 9) Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, Newsletter, Oct 1962
  15. (item 10) Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind, Commonwealth in action, second five-year plan (dated: 1965-1970) and report of the Planning Committee (dated: Aug 1965)
  16. (fols. 330-351) immigration and race relations, 1956-1961
  17. (item 11) C. Senior and D. Manley: The West Indian in Britain, edited by N. Mackenzie (Fabian Colonial Bureau), 1956
  18. (item 12) R. Mansell Prothero: Labour migration in British West Africa (Corona, pp. 169-172), May 1957
  19. (item 13) Race and the human family (Commonwealth Challenge, vol. 8, no. 1), Oct 1959
  20. (item 14) Commonwealth Relations Office, 7th report of the Oversea Migration Board (Cmnd. 1586), Dec 1961
  21. (item 15) J.A.C. Hugill: Control of immigration (Chronicle of the West India Committee, p. 285), Dec 1961.

Dates

  • Creation: 1948-1970

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

  • English

Shelfmark

MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 408/1

Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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