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Accounts of life in Tanganyika by John Allen and his family

Accounts of life in Tanganyika by John Allen and his family.
Shelfmark: MS. 13151
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1946-2018
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African Voyage Album

Album of postcards, photographs and other souvenirs of a journey from Port Elizabeth to London via the east coast of Africa and the Suez Canal. Includes views of Port Elizabeth, East London, Durban, Lourenco Marques, Beira, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Aden, Port Sudan, Naples, Pompeii, Marseilles, Paris and London, with, at the end, pictures of Harrogate, York, Madeira, Cape Town, Victoria Falls and Kimberley, [20th century].
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2325
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 20th century
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Archive of Arthur Theodore Culwick

Correspondence and papers of Arthur Theodore Culwick (b. 1905)
Extents: 1.05 Linear metres (15 boxes)
Dates: 1905-1988
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Archive of Sir Clement Pleass

Personal and political papers of Sir Clement Pleass (1901-1988), colonial governor
Extents: 5.97 Linear metres (17 boxes)
Dates: 1911-1966
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Correspondence of Leonard Heaney

Typescript transcription of letters written by Heaney from Tanganyika to his parents in England, compiled under the title Letters and Notes from Tanganyika 1929-1943.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2271
Extents: 141 pages
Dates: 1929-1943
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Illustrations by Mrs. Edward James Lugard (Charlotte Eleanor)

Illustrations by Mrs. Edward James Lugard (Charlotte Eleanor) in The rise of our East African empire: early efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda by F.J.D. Lugard, 1893 (printed), with autograph inscription by E.J. Lugard.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.r.206
Extents: 1 volume
Dates: 1893
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Journal, notebooks and photographs of Major-General Stephen Seymour Butler

Eleven personal notebooks, with accounts of, and notes on, military service in East Africa, 1939-1943, with manuscript journal of journey into "unknown Arabia", 1907-1908, and photographs of Butler in uniform of Bimbashi or the Egyptian Army, c.1909.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.r.199
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1907-1909, 1939-1943
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King's African Rifles Papers

Memoranda and other papers, [1981-1982], describing the experiences of officers in various East African regiments, c1910s-1960s.
Extents: 19 boxes
Dates: [1978-1984]
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Letters from Noel Smith (microfilm)

Letters written home as settler in Soy, Kenya, and about First World War service on the East African Front.
Shelfmark: Micr.Afr.599
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1914-1928
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Maps of Dr. Kenneth R.S. Morris

Maps of sleeping sickness areas of West and East Africa.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.t.34
Extents: 1 file
Dates: 1926-1961
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Maps of East Africa

Maps of East Africa, 1899-1904
Extents: 0.88 Linear metres (8 boxes)
Dates: 1899-1904
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Papers of Alfred Dalton

The collection largely consists of diaries and correspondence relating to Dalton's career with the Tanganyika railways, the Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours Administration, and the East African Railways and Harbours Administration. There are also a small amount of papers relating to Dalton's Army service; reports and correspondence of the Maize and Produce Control Board; East African photographs and postcards (mainly of scenes/views, most of which belonged to Dalton's…
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2134
Extents: 5 boxes
Dates: 1924-1966, 1984
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Papers of Colonel Charles William G. Walker

Correspondence, minutes, agenda etc. relating to the Conference of Governors of the East African Dependencies, the Royal Commission, and the Joint Select Committee; Colonel Walker's journal (1922-1936) which includes details of his work on the Committee of Imperial Defence and the Conference of Governors; papers about Lord de la Warr's mission to Ethiopia.
Extents: 8 boxes
Dates: 1922-[c.1944]
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Papers of Donald H. Laycock

Detailed memorandum on service in tea research stations, 1947-1978.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 476 (24)
Extents: 51 ff.
Dates: [1980s]
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Papers of Elspeth Josceline Huxley (1)

Papers of the writer Elspeth Josceline Huxley, 1901-1960.
Extents: 0.6 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates: 1901-1960
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Papers of Elspeth Josceline Huxley (2)

Papers of the writer Elspeth Joceline Huxley, 1900-1989.
Extents: 4.2 Linear metres (28 boxes)
Dates: 1900-1989
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Papers of Elspeth Josceline Huxley (3)

Papers of the writer Elspeth Josceline Huxley, 1929-1996.
Extents: 0.45 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates: 1929-1996
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Papers of F. de V. Joyce; records of Kilima Kiu Estate/Joyce Ltd.

Correspondence, printed memoranda, notes, press cuttings concerning political developments in Kenya, 1921-1950s Correspondence, memoranda and notes concerning European settlement, land control, etc., Kenya, 1932-1946 Memoranda, correspondence, notes, reports, etc. relating to agriculture and livestock, industry, soil conservation, land use, etc., Kenya, 1931-1963 …
Extents: 12 boxes
Dates: c1911-1982
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Papers of Geoffrey H.S. Wood

Letters and press cuttings from and about Wood, 1952-1957.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 556
Extents: 1 folder
Dates: 1952-1957
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Papers of Geoffrey Milne

Diaries, reports, memoranda, correspondence, etc. of Geoffrey Milne, as soil scientist in East Africa and the West Indies, 1924-1942; with "Soils of Sukumaland" (Tanganyika): a final report by C.G.T. Morrison, 1956, and miscellaneous printed material, 1924-1959.
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates: 1924-1959

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20th century 37
Africa, East 14
19th century 5
Africa -- History -- 20th century 5
Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 4
Pioneers -- Africa, East 4
Africa 3
Africa -- Description and travel 3
Agriculture -- Kenya 3
Art teachers -- Africa, East 3
Land settlement -- Kenya 3
Literature 3
Africa, East -- Description and travel 2
Africa, East -- Pictorial works 2
African trypanosomiasis 2
Congresses and conventions -- Africa, East 2
Farmers -- Kenya 2
Farms -- Kenya 2
Kenya -- History -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 2
Kenya -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
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Literature -- 20th century 2
Social sciences 2
Tanganyika 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Africa, East -- Personal narratives, British 2
21st century 1
Aerial photographs 1
Aeronautics -- History -- Personal narratives 1
Africa, East -- Biography -- 20th century 1
Africa, East -- Constitutional history 1
Africa, East -- Description and travel -- Views 1
Africa, East -- Discovery and exploration 1
Africa, East -- History -- 20th century 1
Africa, South -- Officials and employees 1
Africa, Southern -- History 1
Africa, Southern -- History -- 20th century 1
Africa, West 1
Agriculture -- Africa, East -- History 1
Agriculture -- Ethiopia -- History -- 20th century 1
Agriculture -- India -- History 1
Agriculture -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century 1
Agriculture -- Kenya -- Machakos District -- History -- 20th century 1
Agriculture -- Malawi -- History 1
Agriculture -- Somalia -- History -- 20th century 1
Agriculture -- Tanganyika 1
Arabian Peninsular -- Biography -- 20th century 1
Arabian Peninsular -- Description and travel 1
Asia -- History -- 20th century 1
Autonomy and independence movements -- History -- 20th century 1
Botanists -- Africa 1
Botanists -- Africa, East -- Biography 1
Botany 1
Botswana -- Constitutional history 1
Charities - - Great Britain 1
Civil service -- Nigeria, Eastern -- Colonies 1
Clubs -- Africa, East 1
Colonial administrators 1
Colonial administrators -- Africa 1
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria 1
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria -- Correspondence 1
Colonial administrators -- Tanganyika 1
Colonial administrators' spouses -- Africa, East -- Correspondence 1
Colonial administrators' spouses -- Africa, East -- Personal narratives 1
Communism -- History -- 20th century 1
Decolonization -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century 1
Ecologists -- Africa, East 1
Education -- Africa 1
Education -- Africa, East 1
Education -- Kenya 1
Education -- Tanganyika 1
Education, colonial -- Africa 1
Egypt -- Biography -- 20th century 1
Engineering 1
Europe -- Description and travel -- Views 1
Europe -- History -- 20th century 1
Farmers -- Tanganyika 1
Federal government -- Africa 1
Foresters -- Nigeria 1
Geologists -- Correspondence 1
Geology -- Photographs 1
Great Britain -- Politics and government 1
Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- 20th century 1
Great Britain -- Armed forces -- Africa, East -- History 1
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Agriculture 1
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Tanzania -- Administration -- Biography 1
Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Views 1
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century 1
History 1
Human services -- Africa, East 1
Humanities 1
India, North -- Biography -- 20th century 1
Israel -- History -- 1948-1967 1
Katanga (Congo) -- History 1
Kavirondo (African people) 1
Kenya 1
Kilimanjaro, Mount (Tanzania) -- Discovery and exploration 1
Labor unions -- Great Britain -- Congresses 1
Land use -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century 1
Land use -- Kenya -- Machakos District -- History -- 20th century 1
Landscape photography 1
Livestock -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century 1
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Indexed names
Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3
Butler | Stephen Seymour | 1880-1964 | Major-General 2
Conference of Governors of the East African Dependencies 2
Somers | Phoebe | d 1995 | art teacher 2
Walker | Charles William Garne | 1882-1974 | Colonel 2
Allen | John Richard | 1916-1998 | colonial officer 1
Betts | Tristram Frederick (Jimmy) | 1908-1983 | forester and charity worker 1
Burtt | Bernard Dearman | 1902-1938 | Botanist 1
Buxton | Clarence Edward Victor | 1892-1967 | Colonial Administrator 1
Central African Council 1
Churchill | Winston Leonard Spencer | 1874-1965 | Sir | Knight Statesman and Historian 1
Commission on Closer Union of the Dependencies in Eastern and Central Africa 1
Culwick | Arthur Theodore | b 1905 | Colonial Administrator 1
Dalton | Alfred | 1892-1984 | Colonial Railway Administrator 1
Drury | Norman C | fl 1914-1963 | Government Printer in Kenya and Tanganyika 1
East Africa Dinner Club 1
East Africa European Pioneers' Society 1
East African Agricultural Research Station 1
Ford | John | fl 1930-1979 | ecologist 1
Fosbrooke | Jane | fl 1934-1935 | wife of Henry Fosbrooke 1
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Gawler | A E | fl 1929-1947 1
Great Britain | Army | King's African Rifles 1
Great Britain | Army | Northern Rhodesia Regiment 1
Great Britain | Army | Royal Fusiliers 1
Great Britain | Army | Signalling 1
Great Britain | Army | Somaliland Camel Corps 1
Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 1
Great Britain | Colonial Office 1
Great Britain | Committee of Imperial Defence 1
Great Britain. War Office 1
Harmer | Leslie B | fl 1942-1945 1
Heaney | Leonard M. | b 1906 | colonial officer 1
Huggins | Godfrey Martin | 1883-1971 | 1st Viscount Malvern | Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia 1
Joyce Ltd. | | Kenya | Machakos District | livestock farm 1
Joyce | Anne | | farmer in Kenya 1
Joyce | Frank Horatio De Vere | 1888-1959 | farmer in Kenya 1
Kilima Kiu estate | | Kenya | Machakos District | livestock farm 1
Laycock | Donald H. | fl 1922-1978 | tea research officer 1
Lugard | Charlotte Eleanor | 1859-1939 | nee Howard | wife of Major Edward James Lugard 1
Lugard | Edward James | 1865-1957 | Colonial Administrator 1
Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 1
Lutyens | W F | fl 1929-1947 | engineer 1
Meinertzhagen | Richard | 1878-1967 | colonial administrator ornithologist 1
Milne | Geoffrey | b 1898 | Agricultural Scientist Colonial Service 1
Morris | Kenneth Robert Stacey | 1901-1980 | Entomologist 1
Morrison | C G T | fl 1956 1
Nepken | D | fl 1929-1947 1
Oldham | Joseph Houldsworth | 1874-1969 | Missionary 1
Oxfam GB 1
Pleass | Sir | Clement | 1901-1988 | Knight | colonial governor 1
Smith | Noel | fl 1914-1928 | settler in Kenya 1
Smuts | Jan Christian | 1870-1950 | Statesman 1
Somers | Phoebe Helen | d 1955 | art teacher 1
Thornton | Richard | 1838-1863 | Geologist 1
Watkins | Oscar Ferris | 1877-1943 | soldier and colonial administrator 1
Welensky | Sir | Roy Roland | 1907-1991 | Knight | Rhodesian Statesman 1
Williams | Patrick Edward W | fl. 1943-1955 | teacher in East Africa 1
Wood | Geoffrey H.S. | 1927-1957 | botanist 1
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Language
English 40
Afrikaans 1
German 1
Swahili 1
Undetermined 1