Box 606961417
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Contains 46 Results:
'Mediterranean trip', 10 Feb-13 Jul 1933
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Orde Browne's tour to some of the Western Mediterranean ports, 1-27 Mar 1933, under the auspices of the British Social Hygiene Council, to ascertain the efficiency of welfare measures for seamen. Comprises:
(fols. 1-6) letters from Messrs John Bruce & Co about arrangements for the voyage, 10-23 Feb
(fols. 7-28) letter from F. Bowes, Hon. Secretary, British Council for the Welfare of...
Extents: 70 Leaves
Dates:
10 Feb-13 Jul 1933
Miscellaneous files on Bechuanaland (Botswana) and other subjects, 1933-1936
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4
'Bechuanaland': Correspondence, notes, memoranda, concerned chiefly with health and labour conditions, 15 Oct 1933-13 Oct 1936
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Extents: 237 Leaves
Dates:
15 Oct 1933-13 Oct 1936
'Institut Colonial International': Correspondence, 14 Feb 1934-Oct 1936
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Correspondence with H. Vischer, Secretary-General, International Institute of African Languages and Cultures; O. Louwers, Secretary-General of the Institute, and Lugard, President; and Prof. A.P. Newton, chiefly about an invitation to Orde Browne to prepare a report on detribalisation in the British Colonies. He was elected a member of the Institut in Jun 1936.
Extents: 27 Leaves
Dates:
14 Feb 1934-Oct 1936
Booklet about the Institut, including its statutes, rules, list of members, and publications (pp. 113), 1933
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Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1933
'Abyssinia': Correspondence, 11-28 Oct 1935
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Correspondence between Orde Browne and his niece, Sybil Wingate, Lord Noel-Buxton's Secretary, and with L.B. Golden, General Secretary of the Save the Children Fund, and C.R. Newman Chairman of the Executive Committee of the British Ambulance Service in Ethiopia, about organising help for Abyssinia (Ethiopia). There are also two copies of a memorandum by Orde Browne (fols. 18-25) on relief work under African conditions, prepared for Golden, entitled 'African refugee problems'.
Extents: 25 Leaves
Dates:
11-28 Oct 1935
'Paper for the League of Nations Union', 7 Oct 1935-24 Feb 1936
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Correspondence with J.J. Paskin, Colonial Office; D.H. Mills, Secretary of the League of Nations Union; and W.W. Cunningham, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor, about a paper read by Orde Browne at a Lecture Conference on 'The I.L.O. and world planning', 18 Feb 1936, with a programme of the Conference (fol. 20) and three drafts of the paper, entitled 'The Administrator, the Employer and the Labourer'.
Extents: 62 Leaves
Dates:
7 Oct 1935-24 Feb 1936
'Peaceful Change, Chatham House': International Studies Conference, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 7 May-5 Dec 1936
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Orde Browne was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Colonial Aspect. Comprises:
(fols. 1-9) two letters from Geoffrey Keating, Hon. Secretary, General Group on Peaceful Change, with a Note by the General Rapporteur, Prof. Maurice Bourquin, and Reports on the first meeting of the International Study Groups for colonial questions and population and migration problems, 7 May 1936
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Extents: 62 Leaves
Dates:
7 May-5 Dec 1936
'Some comments on the existing state of affairs in Bechuanaland': memorandum by Orde Browne, with a covering letter to Nicholson, 15 Oct 1933
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 1-4
Letter to Mrs Neville Rolfe and copies of two reviews by Orde Browne, 15 Oct 1933
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 5-11
Review on the Report of the Commission on the Financial and Economic position of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana) (the Pim Report) for Health and Empire and the Social Hygiene Year Book.
Extents: 7 Leaves
Dates:
15 Oct 1933
Letters to Oldham and Mrs N. Rolfe, and Notes by Orde Browne on Bechuanaland (Botswana) from the Pim Report and the Annual Medical Report for 1932, 21 Oct-10 Nov 1933
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 12-24
Notes on Bechuanaland (Botswana) for the Parliamentary Deputation (two copies) about the high incidence of disease and the absence of any organisation to deal with the flow of labour, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 25-30
Memorandum on compulsory labour and the Bechuanaland Protectorate (Botswana), and other notes, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 31-40
'Some notes on the Draft International Draft Convention on Forced Labour ... in Bechuanaland', with a covering letter from Orde Browne to Malcolm MacDonald and his reply, 20-21 Dec 1933
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 41-46
Notes from the Bechuanaland (Botswana) Medical Report, 1933, n.d.
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 47-48
Correspondence with William Lunn, MP, Malcolm MacDonald, and H.N. Tait (Dominions Office), and Lugard, about forced labour in the Protectorates (Lesotho, Botswana, and Eswatini), 14 Feb-10 Apr 1934
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 49-65
'Remarks by the Rt Hon. J.H. Thomas (Secretary of State for the Dominions) at the Deputation received by him from the Parliamentary Committee of the British Social Hygiene Council...', 27 Mar 1934
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 66-69
About Bechuanaland (Botswana), with a covering letter dated 23 Apr from the Secretary of the Council.
Extents: 4 Leaves
Dates:
27 Mar 1934
Four cuttings, from The Times, Daily Herald, and Cape Times, chiefly about the question of the transference of the Protectorates (Lesotho, Botswana, and Eswatini) to South Africa, 26 Apr-2 Jun 1934
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fols. 70-75
Letter from Weaver about the application of the Minimum Age (Industry) Convention in British African Colonies, 8 May 1934
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fol. 74
Letter from Tait and reply from Orde Browne, 24 May-2 Jun 1934
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Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1117/4, folder 2, fol. 75-95
Letter from Tait with a memorandum prepared for the Colonial Office concerning the Bechuanaland Protectorate Native Administration Proclamation, and a Report on the Convention concerning forced labour in Nigeria for the period 3 Jun-30 Sep 1932; also, a letter from Orde Browne in reply and Tait's acknowledgement of this.
Extents: 21 Leaves
Dates:
24 May-2 Jun 1934