Land, 1930-1968
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 462
Held at the Weston Library
Comprises:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-37) White settlement: memoranda on European settlement in East Africa in the light of questions raised during the hearing of the Joint Committee on East Africa, with the Commission's warning against allowing settlers too much power, c. 1930-1938
- folder 2 (fols. 1-65) White settlement: a map-diagram by W. McGregor Ross (fol. 1); memoranda by H.S. Scott on 'European Settlement and Native Development in East Africa', 1930 (fols. 2-17) and by Sir Alan Pim on 'European Settlement in the Dependent Empire', prepared for the Foreign Research and Press Service, c. 1942 (fols. 34-46); notes on 'Mixed States' (fol. 47), a Labour Party paper on settlement (fols. 48-55), the Settlement Committee Report, 1939 (fols. 56-57), and on Margery Perham's talk with Colonel Lewin in 1951 (fol. 58); also, 'White Settlement in the Tropics', a review of a book by A. Grenfell Price for the Royal Geographical Society, 1939 (fols. 59-60), and a seminar paper for the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University, on 'Sir Charles Eliot and white settlement in Kenya' by C. Wrigley, 1956 (fols. 61-65)
- folder 3 (fols. 1-16) letters from two settlers, James Scott and N.A. Ward, to Margery Perham, 1936
- folder 4 (fols. 1-12) Discussion of the influence of white settlers, with Elspeth Huxley with suggestions for the solution of the problem by Margery Perham and Lugard, extracts from correspondence, and a memorandum, 1940s
- folder 5 (fols. 1-80) White settlement: memoranda, reports, articles, and texts of speeches including 'The People and the Land: Some Problems' by Colin Maher, East African Agricultural Journal, 1941 (fols. 1-7); a memorandum by L[ucy] M[air] for the Foreign Research and Press Service on 'British East Africa' (fols. 8-12); Labour Party Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions Memorandum No. 231 on 'Permanent Settlement and Agricultural Development', 1941, and No. 263 by Rita Hinden on 'White Settlement in Kenya', Oct 1943 (fols. 13-39); Anti-Slavery Society memorandum on 'White Settlement in Kenya', Feb 1944 (fols. 40-45); report by the Kenya Association (1932), 1944 (fols. 46-52) and by the Department of Immigration for 1949 (fols. 53-59); a statement by the Electors' Union, Kenya, 8 Jul 1951 (fols. 63-64); confidential reports by a working party on the prospects for elderly and invalid Europeans after Independence, 1962 (fols. 66-78); and the text of a speech on compassionate cases to the Convention of Associations (anonymous), Dec 1962 (fols. 79-80)
- folder 6 (item 1) report on Migration for 1946, prepared under the direction of C.J. Martin, Director of Statistics, Conference of East African Governors, 1947
- folder 7 (items 1-5) Kenya Guardian, official journal of the Electors' Union, reporting on the work of the sub-committee on settlement, numbers 6-10, 1947-1948
- folder 8 (fols. 1-28 and item 1) correspondence resulting from Margery Perham's statements on white settlement in her letter to The Times, 17 Aug 1961, in her Reith Lectures in 1961, and in her article in The Times on 20 Feb 1963
- folder 9 (fols. 1-127) confidential memoranda, minutes, and other papers of the Agricultural Settlement Trust and its related organisation, Lands Limited, sent by the director of the Trust with a copy of the Trust deed, 1961-1968.
Dates
- Creation: 1930-1968
Extent
9 folders
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 462
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
Contact:
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk