Miscellaneous papers, 1939-1968 and n.d.
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 358
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-71 and item 1) miscellaneous notes, memoranda, and other papers, including preparatory papers for a conference in London on 'The African Peoples, Democracy and World Peace' in Jul 1939 (fols. 1-9); minutes of the Research Committee on Non Self-Governing Dependencies, 28 Oct 1941 (fols. 10-14); notes of a talk with M. Chartri, n.d. (fol. 15); 'The Distribution of the Semitic and Cushitic Languages of Africa' by M.A. Bryan (fols. 20-26); notes on points made on Africa in The Times, Apr 1954 (fols. 27-34); provisional scheme for a handbook on Africa South of the Sahara (fol. 35); memorandum by Driberg on a project to collect District Books in Africa with Margery Perham's assessment of the idea (fols. 36-41); seminar papers by E. Alport on 'The Algerian Disturbances, 1954' (fols. 42-46) and Margaret Bates on 'The Maji-Maji Rebellion', 1955 (fols. 47-63); list of queries about dates of events in Africa (fols. 66-68); 'The Problem of Political Integration in Emergent Africa' by James S. Coleman, Western Political Quarterly, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Mar 1955 (item 1); notes on population (fols. 69-71)
- folder 2 (items 1-5) reports on two conferences held by the Institute of Race Relations on 'Future Policy towards Africa' and 'The New Societies of Tropical Africa', 1960-1962
- folder 3 (fols. 1-2 and items 1-10) seminar papers and articles including 'Frontiers in Africa' by C.E. Carrington, International Affairs, Vol. 36, No. 4, Oct 1960 (item 1); 'Some Problems on the Path to Self-Government' by Sir James Robertson, Public Administration, Vol. 39, winter 1961 (item 2); report of the All-Africa Seminar on 'The Christian Home and Family Life' held at Mindolo Ecumenical Centre, Kitwe, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), 1963 (item 3); notes on 'What Kind of Radicalism for Africa?' by Colin Legum, Foreign Affairs, Jan 1965 (fols. 1-2); United Nations International Seminar on Apartheid Report, Aug 1967 (item 5); 'The Commonwealth in Africa' by T.O. Elias, Modern Law Review, May 1968 (item 6); talk by Colin Legum on 'Israel and Africa' at St Antony's College, Oxford, Oct 1968 (item 7); talks by Basil Davidson on 'The African Synthesis' (item 8), by A.L. Adu on 'Africa in the Contemporary World (item 9), and by Robin Murray on 'The Changing Pattern of Economic Relations: Africa and the Industrialized Countries', Dec 1968 (item 10)
- folder 4 (fols. 1-7) lists of population figures for the different African countries and a list of their leaders, n.d.
- folder 5 (fol. 1 and item 1) lecture at Cornell University by Francis Xavier Sutton on 'Africa Today', 1961
- folder 6 (fols. 1-7 and items 1-2) report of the Economic Commission for Africa of the United Nations Workshop on Urbanisation in Africa, with some typescript observations on the subject, 1962
- folder 7 (fols. 1-20 and item 1) miscellaneous, fragmentary notes, manuscript and typescript, n.d.
Dates
- Creation: 1939-1968 and n.d.
Extent
7 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 358
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