Bechuanaland (Botswana), 1931-1976
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 377
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-7) letter from Winifred Holtby to Hilda Matheson, with a copy of her letter to Lord Lothian and of a report by William Ballinger on 'The Beginnings of Co-operative Retail Trading and Production in the Union of South Africa and the British Protectorates', 1933
- folder 2 (fols. 1-24) notes by Margery Perham on the situation in Bechuanaland (Botswana), 1933-1934 and n.d.
- folder 3 (fols. 1-6) notes by Margery Perham on the constitutional position in Bechuanaland (Botswana), with marginal comments by Lugard, c. 1933
- folder 4 (fols. 1-41) notes by Margery Perham on the British South Africa Company and the British West Charterland Company in relation to Bechuanaland (Botswana), derived partly from Lugard's diaries, n.d.
- folder 5 (items 1-2) memorandum of Agreement between Tshekedi Khama and the British South Africa Company of 1932 and 'The Case for Bechuanaland', presented by him and the five chiefs in 1946
- folder 6 (fols. 1-3) petition to the Secretary of State for the Dominions from the London Group on African Affairs against possible consent by the British Government to cede Bechuanaland (Botswana) to the South African Government; also, comments by the Advisory Committee on Education in the Colonies on the Bechuanaland Protectorate Report for 1937-1938 (see also Papers of the London Group on African Affairs, MSS. Afr. s. 1427)
- folder 7 (fols. 1-25) petition by Tshekedi Khama and the chiefs and representatives of the people of Bechuanaland (Botswana) to King George V to disallow the Native Administration and the Native Tribunals Proclamations of 1934 and 1935 (typescript copy), 1935
- folder 8 (unfoliated) Tshekedi Khama - press cuttings, 1931-1946
- folder 9 (unfoliated) constitutional affairs - press cuttings, 1933-1938
- folder 10 (fols. 1-14) memoranda by Tshekedi Khama on administration and amalgamation proposals, n.d.
- folder 11 (fols. 1-52) Development: correspondence and related papers, including reports on the development prospects of the Okovango Delta by John Wellington, notes by Margery Perham, and an appeal for funds to establish the African Development Trust, of which she was a trustee, with a newsletter on its later development, 1950-1963
- folder 12 (unfoliated) Development - press cuttings, 1944-1954
- folder 13 (fols. 1-4) Central Office of Information Fact Sheets, 1954-1957
- folder 14 (fols. 1-24) Bechuanaland (Botswana) development projects, official statements, and Oxfam reports, 1966-1970
- folder 15 (fols. 1-4) 'Tshekedi Khama as I knew him' by Mary Benson, Botswana Notes and Records, Vol. 8, 1976.
Dates
- Creation: 1931-1976
Extent
15 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 377
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
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specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk