Colonial Service training, general, 1939-1978
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 248
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-18) correspondence with former students, Sir Ralph Furse, Frederick Pedler, and others about conditions of service, 1939-1960
- folder 2 (fols. 1-10) text of a paper on 'Training courses for services in the Netherlands East Indies' presented by Dr R.W. Huender, of the Netherlands Foreign Office, to the African Institute, 1943
- folder 3 (fols. 1-5 and items 1-5) pamphlets on reforms in the Colonial Service and its training, with the Report on the Work of the Training and Education Division, H.M. Treasury Jan 1946-Jun 1947, 1947-1966
- folder 4 (fols. 1-57) official statements on the Colonial Service and its training, including points from the speech by the Secretary of State to the Colonial Service Club in Oxford on 7 Jun 1948, 1948-1955
- folder 5 (fols. 1-2) memorandum by J. Hartley on the views of the Sudan Political Service men attending the Colonial Service Training Course in the United Kingdom concerning the course's relevance to Sudan, 1952
- folder 6 (fols. 1-8) correspondence in response to Margery Perham's letter to The Times of 8 Apr on 'Change in Africa', dealing with the disquiet in the Service caused by the terms being offered to officers on withdrawal from the service, 1960
- folder 7 (fols. 1-16) proofs of papers, in French and English, on staff problems in overseas territories, read at a meeting in Munich of the International Institute of Differing Civilizations, 1960
- folder 8 (fols. 1-3 and items 1-2) seminar paper by Terence Gavaghan on 'The Colonial Administrator in the Age of Decolonization', 'The New African Administrator' by A.H.M. Kirk-Greene, Journal of African Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1972, and Margery Perham's notes on a talk given by the latter, 1968-1978.
Dates
- Creation: 1939-1978
Extent
8 folders
Language of Materials
- English
- French
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 248
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
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Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk