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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
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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
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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
Collection
Papers of Sir Percy Selwyn Selwyn-Clarke (2)
Photographs relating to medical service in the Gold Coast and Hong Kong, with an atlas of the Gold Coast, 1915-1945.
Extents: 1 box, 1 volume
Dates:
1915-1945
Collection
Papers of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet (1)
Letters to Hannah Buxton nee Gurney, 1804-1840
Family correspondence, 1812-1847
Miscellaneous correspondence and copies of letters from Joseph John Gurney, 1818-1847
New Year and birthday reflections and obituaries, 1813-1845
Scriptural notes, prayers and meditations, 1828-1838
Notebooks, 1812-[c1814]
Notes and…
Extents: 46 Volumes
Dates:
1804-1847
Single Item
Papers of Stanley Milburn relating to society in Nigeria and Sierra Leone
Papers on education, native customs, folklore, history and secret societies in Nigeria and Sierra Leone, including sketches, photographs, articles and notes, 1926-1950. Also, transcripts of diaries of George Ross, Superintendent of Maroons in Sierra Leone, 1800-1801, and extracts from the diary of John Clarkson, [Royal Navy], 1791-1792.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1628
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1791-1801, 1926-1950
Single Item
Papers of the Cardew family
Family correspondence, 1842-1916, including many written to Sir Frederic Cardew's first son, the Revd. Frederic Anstruther Cardew (1866-1942) by his brothers Cyril and Claude, with transcripts and brief biographical details of the writers.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 550
Extents: 2 folders
Dates:
1842-1916
Single Item
Papers of the novelist Ellen Ross and her son, William McGregor Ross
Papers of the novelist Ellen Ross (née Brook, b.1840) and her son, William McGregor Ross (1876-1940).
Shelfmark: MS. 12303
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1857-1912
Collection
Papers of the Swettenham Family
Three family photograph albums, 1919-1929, mainly taken in Malaya, but also including pictures of the war-damaged Departement of Aisne, France, 1919-1920; commemorative album of the parade held in Kuala Lumpur on George V's birthday, 3rd June 1931.
Extents: 4 Volumes
Dates:
1919-1931
Collection
Papers of Thomas Nelson Goddard
Correspondence, letters home, press cuttings, photographs, etc., relating to service in the Falkland Islands, 1914-1920, and in Sierra Leone, 1920-1933.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1914-1933
Collection
Papers of Trevor Hearl relating to Saint Helena
Papers collected by Trevor Hearl, teacher, writer and historian, relating to the political, economic and social history of Saint Helena.
Extents: 15.3 Linear metres (113 physical shelfmarks)
Dates:
1589-2007
Collection
Collection
Papers of W.F.P. Kelly
Diary of travels in charge of a mobile cinema, Kenya, 1944; three volumes of memoirs of service, Kenya, 1936-1963; four volumes of travel diaries, Kenya, 1981-1982, 1989, 1992, 1996; one travel diary, South Africa, 1990; report by Miss S. Brodribb Pughe on the wells of the Northern District, Kenya, 1962.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1944-[1996]
Collection
Papers of William Hodge Mill
Papers of William Hodge Mill, including:
Journals of Mill's travels in India, France, Egypt and Nubia, 1820-1838
Miscellaneous papers written or collected by William Hodge Mill, 1753, 1815-1845
Extents: 14 shelfmarks
Dates:
1753-1845
Single Item
Papers of William Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey, relating to tours to America
Papers (correspondence, itineraries, press cuttings, articles, etc.) relating to Hailey's tours to America in December 1942 and November 1944. The papers have been bound into 1 volume.
Shelfmark: MSS.Amer.s.5
Extents: 1 volume
Dates:
1942-1944
Single Item
Papers of William Sydney Marchant
Photographs, press cuttings and other papers relating to colonial service in Kenya, 1919-1938, 1943-1947, and as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands, 1939-1943.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 491
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1919-1947
Collection
Papers relating to Commonwealth Fund Fellowships
Six volumes of reports, 1930-1932, by British students who were enabled to study in America, 1926-1932.
Extents: 6 Volumes
Dates:
1930-1932
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- Indexed subjects
- 20th century 160
- 19th century 153
- 18th century 45
- Diaries 34
- France -- Description and travel 24
- Humanities 24
- Italy -- Description and travel 20
- Travel 20
- India -- Description and travel 19
- Diaries -- 19th century 17
- Travel -- 19th century 15
- 17th century 13
- Africa -- Description and travel 13
- England -- Description and travel 13
- Diaries -- 20th century 12
- Europe -- Description and travel 12
- Kenya -- Description and travel 11
- Nigeria -- Description and travel 11
- Tanzania -- Description and travel 11
- Belgium -- 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
- Canada -- Description and travel 8
- Literature 8
- South Africa -- Description and travel 8
- Switzerland -- Description and travel 8
- 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
- Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963 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
- Africa 5
- Agriculture -- Kenya 5
- France 5
- France -- Description and travel -- 1800-1918 5
- Ghana -- Description and travel 5
- History 5
- Hong Kong (China) -- History -- 20th century 5
- Italy -- Description and travel -- 19th century 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
- Africa -- History -- 20th century 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 -- Mau Mau Emergency, 1952-1960 3
- Land settlement -- Kenya 3
- Malaysia -- History -- 20th century 3
- Netherlands -- Description and travel 3
- Palestine -- Description and travel 3
- Panama -- Description and travel 3
- Pioneers -- Africa, East 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 ∧ 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
- Huxley | Elspeth Josceline | 1907-1997 | née Grant | author and journalist 3
- Bayley | Francis | 1803-1893 | judge 2
- Buxton | Sir | Thomas Fowell | 1786-1845 | 1st Baronet | Philanthropist 2
- Douglas | Frederick Sylvester North | 1791-1819 | politician and classical scholar 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 | Sir | Kenneth William | 1907-1980 | 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
- Bowen | Augustus Frederick James | b 1812 | naval officer 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 | family 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 ∧ less
- Language
- English 303
- French 9
- Italian 9
- 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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