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Chinese Travelling Trunk (Ashoe Trunk)
Chinese travelling trunk made by Ashoe.
Shelfmark: JL 1051
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1800 - 1830
Single Item
Collection of 7 notebooks detailing continental tours of Eliza and T.K. Hall, with travel journals and sketches
Diaries of continental tours of Thomas K. Hall and Elizabeth ('Eliza') Hall, with travel journals and sketches
Shelfmark:
Extents: 1 box (7 volumes)
Dates:
1817, Jun 1818-Jun 1819, 1826-1827, 1829, n.d.
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Commonplace book and album of Horace Hayman Wilson
Commonplace book and album of Horace Hayman Wilson
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. d. 1286
Extents: 136 Leaves
Dates:
1829-1842
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Copy Diary of Sylvia G. Ward
Copy diary, 1926-1945, of Sylvia Ward, recounting her experiences en route by sea to West Africa shortly after her marriage in September 1926 and life in the Gold Coast and Mauritius thereafter.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2279
Extents: 132 ff.
Dates:
20th century
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Copy journal of James Henry Archer-Burton
Photocopied typescript, 1989 of journal, 1894-1902 of James Henry Archer-Burton Matabele Jim, transcribed and edited by his son James R. Archer-Burton using British South Africa Company correspondence and other material now held in the National Archives of Zimbabwe; includes photocopied photographs.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 2215
Extents: 172 pp.
Dates:
1989
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Copy of journal kept by Robert James Bleakley
Copy of journal kept by Robert James Bleakley as a Colonial Office cadet in Singapore, 1937-1940, including an account of a visit to China. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Ind.Ocn.s.269
Extents: 308 ff.
Dates:
1937-1940
Collection
Correspondence and Papers of Lord Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury
Correspondence and Papers of Lord Robert Grosvenor, 1st Baron Ebury (1801-1893), politician.
Extents: 0.60 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates:
1823-1847
Collection
Correspondence and reports of Angus Whiteford Acworth, FSA
Lease for a year of Haughton Hall plantation, Jamaica, from John
Tharp to William Blake and Samuel Torrent James, 1776
Lease and release of a 96 acre plantation in Hanover and Westmoreland,
Jamaica, with 83 slaves, from Dame Anne Clark to Sir Simon Haughton Clarke,
1798
Copies of judgements made in the Grand Court of Jamaica against Samuel
Horlock, 1777 and Robert McMurdo, 1786,…
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
[1776-1975]
Collection
Correspondence of Henry Dundas and Robert Saunders Dundas
Letters, mainly to the 1st and 2nd Viscounts Melville, relating to the West Indies.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates:
1781-1830
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Correspondence of Henry Herbert, Lord Porchester, mainly concerning his travels in France and Spain
Correspondence of Henry Herbert, Lord Porchester, mainly concerning his travels in France and Spain, 1821-1822.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. c. 8367
Extents: 38 Leaves
Dates:
Apr [1821?]-May 1822
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Correspondence of James Dallaway, clothier, of Brimscombe, Gloucestershire, and A.R. Hawksworth, of Bristol
Correspondence of James Dallaway, clothier, of Brimscombe, Gloucestershire, and A.R. Hawksworth, of Bristol
Shelfmark: MS. Don d. 187
Extents: 166 Leaves
Dates:
1745-1768
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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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Correspondence of the Firth family
Correspondence of the Firth family
Shelfmark: MS. Don c. 185
Extents: 96 Leaves
Dates:
1853-1885
Collection
Correspondence of the Merivale Family, mainly of Walter Merivale, railway engineer, and his wife Emma Magdalene
Correspondence of the Merivale family, 1869-1943, mainly of Walter Merivale, railway engineer in India, Costa Rica and Barbados.
Extents: 2.25 Linear metres (21 Shelfmarks)
Dates:
1869-1943
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Description in Danish, by D. Wright of Glasgow, of a visit to Denmark
Description in Danish, by D. Wright of Glasgow, of a visit to Denmark, 1868.
Shelfmark: MS. Scand. d. 2
Extents: 55 Leaves
Dates:
1868
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'A Description of Fraunce', expertly copied in secretary and italic hands with marginal ruling, etc., in red ink
'A Description of Fraunce', expertly copied in secretary and italic hands.
Shelfmark: MS. Eng. misc. e. 859
Extents: 68 Leaves
Dates:
Early 17th cent.
Collection
Diaries and Notes of R.S. Herries
Diaries and Notes of R.S. Herries.
Extents: 1.32 Linear metres (12 boxes)
Dates:
1880-1898
Collection
Diaries and Travel Journals of Mary Alice Brinckman
Diaries and Travel Journals of Mary Alice Brinckman.
Extents: 1.76 Linear metres (16 boxes)
Dates:
1878-1900
Collection
Diaries of C.H. Hawes
Diaries of C.H. Hawes
Extents: 3.08 Linear metres (28 boxes)
Dates:
[c.1887]-1935
Collection
Diaries of Geoffrey Douglas Popplewell
Diaries kept as an Administrative Officer in Tanganyika, with detailed comments on safaris and other duties, covering Ufipa, Sumbawanga, Tanga, Lushoto, Korogwe, Pangani, Usambara and Mikindani, 1934-1941; with a complete set of transcripts.
Extents: 14 Volumes
Dates:
1934-1941
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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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