Box 606754452
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Contains 115 Results:
East Africa (Hilton Young) Commission: General Correspondence (continued), 1926-1930
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4
General correspondence N-Z and Members of Commission, 1927-1930
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Extents: 247 Leaves
Dates:
1927-1930
Correspondence between George Murray Brumwell, Assistant Editor of The Times, and Oldham, 6 Feb-20 Mar 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 31-46
About Lugard's letter to The Times, the joint letter signed by Archbishop Davidson, Lugard, and five other peers, the resultant leading article on imperial policy, the House of Lords Debate, and Sir Samuel Wilson's visit to Kenya.
Extents: 16 Leaves
Dates:
6 Feb-20 Mar 1929
Letters from Oldham to Lord Buckmaster about the Hilton Young Report, 13-16 Feb 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 47-51
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
13-16 Feb 1929
Correspondence between Raymond Buell, Research Director of the Foreign Policy Association, New York, and Oldham, 14 Feb-14 Nov 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 52-71
About the Hilton Young Report, the letter and leading article in The Times, the Wilson proposals, about Buell's article in the New York Nation, with a copy and list of those to whom copies were sent.
Extents: 20 Leaves
Dates:
14 Feb-14 Nov 1929
Correspondence between C. Delisle Burns and Oldham about the Hilton Young Report, lobbying of press and Parliament and action in the House of Commons, and Passfield's opinion of Oldham's 'stage army', 26 Dec 1928-11 Nov 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 72-93
Extents: 22 Leaves
Dates:
26 Dec 1928-11 Nov 1929
Correspondence between Charles Roden Buxton and Oldham about the Wilson proposals, 26 Sep-19 Oct 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 94-99
Extents: 6 Leaves
Dates:
26 Sep-19 Oct 1929
Correspondence between J.A. Cable of Nairobi and Oldham about a revision of the Kenya constitution, the state of the African population there, and the Hilton Young Report, 22 Oct 1927-13 Dec 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 100-112
Extents: 13 Leaves
Dates:
22 Oct 1927-13 Dec 1929
Correspondence between the Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Lang, and Oldham about the Joint Select Committee and the Wilson Report, 14 Jun 1929-19 Feb 1930
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 113-135
They discuss:
(fols. 113-115) interviews with Passfield and Malcolm MacDonald
(fols. 118-119) letters to The Times by Coupland and Lindsay and Oldham
(fols. 124) a memorandum by the Labour Party Advisory Committee on Imperial Questions
(fols. 118-125) Archbishop Davidson's warning to Ramsay MacDonald of the issues and his...
Extents: 23 Leaves
Dates:
14 Jun 1929-19 Feb 1930
Correspondence between the Rev. Henry Carter, General Secretary of the Wesleyan Methodist Church Temperance and Social Welfare Department, and Oldham about the general situation and Walter Runciman's readiness to speak with Oldham, 9-31 Oct 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 136-140
Extents: 5 Leaves
Dates:
9-31 Oct 1929
Letter from Norman Angell to Oldham expressing willingness to assist in protection of indigenous interests in Kenya, 5 Nov 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fol. 1
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
5 Nov 1929
Correspondence between A.D. Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and Oldham, 15 Jun 1928-22 Nov 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 2-15
About the need for the British Government to retain ultimate control over Kenya, for adequate presentation of the African case, Lindsay's approaches to several politicians about the Wilson proposals, including Lord Passfield, his unpublished letter to The Times, and the attitude of Labour Party backbenchers and of the Cabinet towards the proposals.
Extents: 14 Leaves
Dates:
15 Jun 1928-22 Nov 1929
Letter from James Barr, MP, to Oldham referring to Parliamentary action over the proposals, 14 Nov 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fol. 16
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
14 Nov 1929
Letter from Oldham to R. Barrington-Ward, Assistant Editor of The Times, about the possibility of persuading Philip Kerr to write about the Hilton Young Report, 16 Jan 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fol. 17
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
16 Jan 1929
Correspondence between Professor A. Berriedale Keith and Oldham about the Hilton Young Report and its further implications, in particular the British Government's reserve powers, 13 Nov-9 Dec 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 18-28
Extents: 11 Leaves
Dates:
13 Nov-9 Dec 1929
Correspondence between the Rev. S.M. Berry, Secretary to the Congregational Union of England and Wales, and Oldham about meeting to discuss the Hilton Young Report, 16-17 Oct 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 29-30
Extents: 2 Leaves
Dates:
16-17 Oct 1929
Correspondence between the Rev. J. Hutchinson Cockburn, Joint Convener of the Church of Scotland Committee on Church and Nation, and Oldham, 23 Jun-8 Nov 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 141-150
About the Wilson proposals, opposing strategy, people in the Church to be approached, and the opportunity afforded by a Joint Select Committee, the attitude of the Standing Committee of the Conference of Missionary Societies and the duty, as Oldham saw it, of the Christian Church and action by Hutchinson's committee.
Extents: 10 Leaves
Dates:
23 Jun-8 Nov 1929
Correspondence between Professor Henry Clay, of the University of Manchester, and Oldham about the Hilton Young Report, the letter of the peers to The Times, the action of religious bodies, and proposed action by individuals in the universities, 23-28 May 1929
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1829/4, folder 1, fols. 151-158
Extents: 8 Leaves
Dates:
23-28 May 1929