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Collection
Papers of Joseph Sweeney
Photocopied transcript of Tales from the African Bush, a memoir of Sweeney's service in Kongwa, Tanganyika.
Extents: 66 pp., 1 map
Dates:
20th century
Single Item
Papers of Leonard Clark
Papers of Leonard Clark
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. c. 882, fols. 47-75
Extents: 29 Leaves
Dates:
1947-1956
Collection
Papers of Lord Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury
Papers of Lord Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury
Extents: 5 boxes (0.66 linear metres)
Dates:
1820-1891
Collection
Papers of Maitland Baron Jobson
Letters to his family from South Africa, c1892-1901; journal, 1901-1904; miscellaneous papers concerning career, 1888-[c1935]; particulars of service, letters of recommendation and correspondence with the War Office concerning pension, 1892-1932; part of personal scrapbook, with loose related papers, [1891-c1977]; photographs, including family, fighting units and Boer War, [c1891-1943].
Extents: 2 boxes : Some of the collection was initially mounted and annotated, possibly by Jane Phillipson, the original donor's mother.
Dates:
1888-c1977
Single Item
Papers of Mavis Birdsey
"Sigh softly, African winds: a pioneering tale" (of Australia, South Africa and British East Africa). Typescript, ca.1970, with press cuttings, photographs, and correspondence with Oxford Development Records Project.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1794
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
[ca. 1970]
Collection
Papers of Norman C. Drury relating to the Government Press in East Africa
Typescript account of the early history of the Government Press in Kenya and Tanganyika, from 1917, by Drury, the first Government Printer; with related correspondence, 1959-1960, and press cuttings, maps, printed material and photographs relating to East Africa, 1914-1963.
Extents: 2 volumes, 2 boxes
Dates:
1914-1963
Single Item
Papers of Phillip K. Saunders
Draft autobiography, c1945-1960. 166 pp., 11 photographs.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 552
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
c1945-1960s
Collection
Papers of Phoebe Somers
Sketchbooks and sketches of travels in and inhabitants of various, mainly African locations, 1953-1972.
Extents: 17 vols., 18 ff.
Dates:
1953-1972
Single Item
Papers of Robert Coventry Hunter Greig
Diary, 1934; commission as lieutenant in the Palestine Volunteer Force, 1941; movement and permanent road passes for Palestine, 1946; biographical notes by his son, 1999.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2319
Extents: 1 vol., 3 items, 1 ff.
Dates:
1934-1946, 1999
Collection
Papers of Robert Hepburn Wright
Letters written to parents from northern Nigeria, 1938-1939
Letters and diary extracts on journey out via Egypt and then from Cyprus, as Administrative Officer and Private Secretary to the island's Governor, 1942-[1964]; letters written on service with the R.A.F., 1943-1946
Letters to father from northern Nigeria, 1946-1951
Bound volumes of transcripts of letters…
Extents: 5 boxes
Dates:
[1936-1964]
Single Item
Papers of Samuel Burnside B. McElderry
Album of photographs taken on first tour of service as Administrative Officer in Hong Kong, c1909-1911; diary of service as Deputy Chief Secretary in Tanganyika, and Chief Secretary in Zanzibar, 1933-1934.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 595
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
c1909-1911, 1933-1934
Single Item
Papers of Samuel R. Whitley
Diary of the British National Union Empire Farmers' tour of New Zealand and Australia, 1930, with associated printed material and an album of photographs.
Shelfmark: MSS. N.Z. s. 9
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
[1930]
Collection
Papers of Sheila, Lady Powerscourt
Three albums of photographs relating to travels in Palestine, West Africa, Europe and the West Indies, 1927-1979.
Extents: 3 Volumes
Dates:
1927-1979
Collection
Papers of Sidney Frederick Marriott
Letters, papers and photographs, c1875-1930.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
c1875-1930
Collection
Papers of Sir George Farrar and family
Photographs, correspondence, newspaper cuttings relating to mining activities in South Africa, 1871-1929
Telegrams, newspaper cuttings, photographs, etc. concerning the Jameson Raid, 1896
Maps, correspondence, etc. relating to the South African War, [1899-1906]
Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, cartoons, etc. relating to political career, 1903-1915
…
Extents: 21 boxes
Dates:
c1864-1982
Collection
Papers of Sir Gerald H. Portal
Letterbooks, diaries, correspondence etc. relating to service in Cairo, Zanzibar and Uganda.
Extents: 12 Volumes
Dates:
1881-1895
Single Item
Papers of Sir Harold Kittermaster
Paper given by Kittermaster on the Somalis and other tribes of British Somaliland, c1930.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2341
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
c1930
Single Item
Papers of Sir Jack Johnston
Recollections, typescript memoirs, 1997, of Sir Jack Johnston, covering his service, 1950-1978.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 555
Extents: 1 folder
Dates:
1997
Collection
Papers of Sir Kennedy Trevaskis (1)
Personal diaries, 1939-1942, 1958-1959, 1967-1968, including observations on Kenya, Tanganyika and Somaliland
Official desk diaries, 1956, 1958-1964
Observations by Trevaskis on the ecology of Northern Rhodesia, [1939];
The Northern Rhodesia Journal, June 1950,
containing articles on the region's history, natural history and sociology
…
Extents: 5 boxes
Dates:
1939-1987
Collection
Papers of Sir Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke (1)
Correspondence and papers relating mostly to Hong Kong and the Seychelles,
1929-1950
Correspondence, press cuttings and printed material, 1929-1972
Speeches and certificates, 1921-1972
Typescript of memoirs, [?1970s]
Photographs, including Malaya and Hong Kong, 20th century
Cassettes and tape
recording, mostly of lectures, 20th…
Extents: 11 boxes
Dates:
1911-1975
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- Indexed subjects
- 20th century 156
- 19th century 150
- 18th century 45
- Diaries 34
- France -- Description and travel 23
- Humanities 20
- Travel 20
- Italy -- Description and travel 19
- India -- Description and travel 18
- Diaries -- 19th century 17
- Travel -- 19th century 15
- 17th century 13
- England -- Description and travel 13
- Diaries -- 20th century 12
- Europe -- Description and travel 11
- Kenya -- Description and travel 11
- Nigeria -- Description and travel 11
- Tanzania -- Description and travel 11
- Africa -- Description and travel 9
- England -- Description and travel -- 1801-1900 9
- Europe -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 9
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration 9
- Letters 9
- Belgium -- Description and travel 8
- South Africa -- Description and travel 8
- Switzerland -- Description and travel 8
- Canada -- Description and travel 7
- Germany -- Description and travel 7
- Voyages and travels -- Diaries 7
- Australia -- Description and travel 6
- China -- Description and travel 6
- Egypt -- Description and travel 6
- Great Britain -- Description and travel 6
- Greece -- Description and travel 6
- India 6
- Oxford (England) 6
- Sierra Leone -- Description and travel 6
- Sudan -- Description and travel 6
- Travel -- 18th century 6
- Uganda -- Description and travel 6
- Voyages and travels 6
- France 5
- France -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 5
- Ghana -- Description and travel 5
- Hong Kong (China) -- History -- 20th century 5
- Italy -- Description and travel -- 19th century 5
- Literature 5
- New Zealand -- Description and travel 5
- Russia -- Description and travel 5
- Switzerland -- Description and travel -- 19th century 5
- Turkey -- Description and travel 5
- United States -- Description and travel 5
- Voyages and travels -- 19th century 5
- Antiquarians 4
- Austria -- Description and travel 4
- England--Description and travel 4
- Germany -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 4
- Hong Kong (China) -- Description and travel 4
- Hong Kong (China) -- Description and travel -- Views 4
- Italy 4
- Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel 4
- Photographs 4
- Rome (Italy) -- Description and travel 4
- Switzerland -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 4
- Women travelers 4
- Zimbabwe -- Description and travel -- Views 4
- 21st century 3
- Africa -- Description and travel -- views 3
- America -- Description and travel 3
- Asia -- Description and travel 3
- Colonial administrators -- Africa 3
- English diaries -- 19th century 3
- Europe -- Description and travel -- Views 3
- Fiji -- Description and travel 3
- Geography 3
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Nigeria -- Administration 3
- Great Britain -- Topography 3
- Italy -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 3
- Jamaica -- Description and travel 3
- Japan -- Description and travel 3
- Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 3
- Malaysia -- History -- 20th century 3
- Netherlands -- Description and travel 3
- Palestine -- Description and travel 3
- Panama -- Description and travel 3
- Portugal -- Description and travel 3
- Religion 3
- South Africa -- Description and travel -- Views 3
- Travel photography 3
- Wales -- Description and travel 3
- West Indies -- Description and travel 3
- West Indies -- Description and travel -- Views 3
- Zambia -- Description and travel -- Views 3
- Zimbabwe -- Description and travel 3
- 16th century 2
- Africa 2
- Africa, East -- Description and travel 2
- Agriculture -- Kenya 2
- Archaeology 2
- Argentina -- Description and travel 2 ∧ less
- Indexed names
- Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 10
- Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 4
- Borneo Mission Association 3
- Church of England | Missions | Borneo 3
- Bayley | Francis | 1803-1893 | judge 2
- East India Company 2
- Eton College 2
- Gilpin | William | 1724-1804 | Clergyman, educationist, biographer and topographer 2
- Great Britain | Colonial Office | Officials and employees 2
- Grosvenor | Robert | 1801-1893 | 1st Baron Ebury | politician 2
- Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 2
- Pollock | Hugh Wykeham David | d 1973 | Colonial Service in Tanganyika 2
- Popplewell | Geoffrey Douglas | b 1904 | District Officer Colonial Government 2
- Selwyn-Clarke | Percy Selwyn | 1893-1976 | Sir | medical official and colonial officer 2
- The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society 2
- University of Cambridge 2
- Walker | James Douglas | fl 1952-1976 | railwayman 2
- Acworth | Angus Whiteford | b 1898 | architect 1
- Africa Bureau | 1952 - 1978 1
- Aikin | Lucy | 1781-1864 | historian 1
- Allen | Arthur Louis | fl 1906-1913 1
- Archer-Burton | James Henry | 1850-1922 1
- Ashley | Francis Noel | 1884-1976 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Austin | Jean I.C.B. | fl 1947 1
- Bain | Alexander David Neal | fl 1926-1940 | Geologist 1
- Bain | Rena | fl 1926-1940 | wife of geologist Alexander Bain 1
- Baines | Family 1
- Baines | Sir | Jervoise Athelstane | 1847-1925 | Knight | Indian civil servant 1
- Baker | Mary | fl. 1813-1841 1
- Bannister | Henry Marriott | 1854-1919 | musicologist 1
- Barnett | Annie | d 1941 | nee Beeching, wife of Percy Arthur Barnett 1
- Barnett | Percy Arthur | 1858-1941 | Chief Inspector of Training of Teachers 1
- Barrow | William | Naval Officer 1
- Bate | William | d 1838 | Captain Commandant of Ascension Island 1
- Batty | Beatrice | 1833-1933 | Novelist and Diarist, author called Beatrice Stebbing 1
- Bayley | Elizabeth S | fl. 1890 1
- Beatty | David | fl 1899-1952 | colonial civil servant 1
- Beatty | Robert | fl 1856 1
- Beaumont | fl 1688-1730 | Nonconformist 1
- Beckford | William | 1760-1844 | author, MP, art collector 1
- Beecher | Henry Ward | 1813-1887 | preacher and reformer 1
- Benguey | fl 1905 | Captain French colonial administrator | Ivory Coast 1
- Bennet | William | 1746-1820 | Bishop of Cloyne and antiquary 1
- Bevington | Elizabeth | fl 1789-1792 | Quaker preacher 1
- Bevington | Eric Raymond | 1914-2004 | colonial officer 1
- Birch | James Wheeler Woodford | 1826-1875 | Resident in Perak 1
- Birch | Sir | Ernest Woodford | 1857-1929 | Knight | Colonial Governor 1
- Birdsey | Mavis | fl 1970 1
- Birmann | Peter | 1758-1844 | Swiss painter 1
- Blackburne | John | 1754-1833 | MP 1
- Blackburne | Kenneth William | 1907-1980 | Sir | Knight colonial administrator 1
- Blackie | John | fl 1904 | colonial officer 1
- Bleakley | Robert James | fl 1937-1940 | Colonial Office cadet 1
- Blunt | Wilfrid Scawen | 1840-1922 | poet and writer 1
- Bollaert | William | 1807-1876 | Author and explorer 1
- Bottomley | William Cecil | 1878-1954 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
- Bourdillon | Violet Grace | 1886-1979 | nee Billinghurst, wife of Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon 1
- Bousfield | Henry Brougham | 1832-1902 | Bishop of Pretoria 1
- Bousfield | Mrs. | Wife of Henry Brougham Bousfield, Bishop of Pretoria 1
- Boyd | Sir | Thomas Jamieson | 1818-1902 | Knight | Publisher and philanthropist 1
- Bracton | Henry de | c 1210-1268 | Judge, Chancellor of Exeter Cathedral 1
- Braham | Alex J. | fl 1898-1902 | colonial company agent 1
- Braham | John | 1777?-1856 | singer 1
- Bridges | Diana | fl 1927-1949 | wife of a member of the Nigerian Colonial Service 1
- Bridges | William Maclaren | b 1898 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Brinckman | Mary Alice | 1826-1901 1
- Brinkworth | Edwin Aubrey | fl 1946-1947 1
- British Association for the Advancement of Science 1
- British National Union Empire Farmers 1
- British South Africa Company 1
- British and Foreign Bible Society 1
- Brooke | John Charles | 1748-1794 | Herald, Antiquary, and Topographer 1
- Bruce | (Patrick) Craufurd | 1748-1820 | banker 1
- Bruce | Michael | 1787-1861 | traveller; lawyer and member of parliament 1
- Buckeridge | Nicholas | c.1625-c.1690 | employee of the East India Company 1
- Buller | James | 1812-1884 | Reverend 1
- Burgoyne | Cuthbert | fl 1924 | traveller 1
- Butler | Stephen Seymour | 1880-1964 | Major-General 1
- Buxton | Sir | Thomas Fowell | 1786-1845 | 1st Baronet | Philanthropist 1
- Byng | John | 1743-1813 | 5th Viscount Torrington 1
- Byron | George Gordon | 6th Baron Byron | 1788-1824 | poet 1
- Callcott | Maria | 1785-1842 | author and traveller 1
- Callcott | Sir | Augustus Wall | 1779-1844 | Knight | Painter 1
- Calvert | George | d. 1865 | rector of All Saints, Beeby, Leicestershire 1
- Cameron | Julia Margaret | 1815-1879 | photographer 1
- Campbell | Archibald | 1914-1994 | Colonial Administrator 1
- Campbell | Peggy Phyllis | fl 1939-1941 | wife of Archibald Campbell Colonial Administrator 1
- Cardew | family | 1842-1916 | colonial soldiers, officers and administrators 1
- Casey | Mary | fl 1950-1966 | niece of John Cowper Powys 1
- Cassuto | Moses Vita | b. c.1700 | merchant 1
- Castle | William MacCoy Fitzgerald | fl 19th century 1
- Chatwin | Charles Bruce | 1940-1989 | Writer 1
- Chaucer | Geoffrey | c 1340-1400 | Poet 1
- Chichester | Henrietta Caroline | 1798-1880 | née Fellowes 1
- Chichester | Joseph | 1792-1880 | later Joseph Chamberlain Nagle 1
- Chiswell | Richard | 1673-1751 | Turkey merchant and traveller 1
- Chiswell | Trench | ?1735-1797 | formerly Richard Muilman | merchant and antiquary 1
- Church of England | Diocese of London | Consistory Court 1
- Clark | R. E. | fl. 1848 1
- Colonial Forest Service 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 296
- Italian 9
- French 8
- Latin 6
- German 5
- Undetermined 4
- Arabic 3
- Danish 3
- Chinese 2
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453) 2
- Greek, Modern (1453-) 2
- Spanish; Castilian 2
- English, Old (ca.450-1100) 1
- Catalan; Valencian 1
- Dutch; Flemish 1
- Irish 1
- Hebrew 1
- Hindi 1
- Portuguese 1
- Welsh 1
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