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Account by Fernando de Abascal, Marques de la Concordia, Spanish viceroy of Peru, of the state of that country and the neighbouring provinces

Account by Fernando de Abascal, Marques de la Concordia, Spanish viceroy of Peru, of the state of that country and the neighbouring provinces, written in A.D. 1816.
Extents: 0.22 Linear metres (2 boxes)
Dates: 1816
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Additional papers of Sir Cecil Clementi

Official and personal papers of Sir Cecil Clementi (1875-1947), colonial governor, with papers of his wife, Lady Penelope Clementi (1889–1970) and other family members.
Extents: 17.0 Linear metres (107 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1871-2013
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Archive of Edward Humphry Lane Poole, Provincial Commissoner

Correspondence and papers of Edward Humphry Lane Poole (1888-1961), Provincial Commissioner of Northern Rhodesia
Extents: 2.1 Linear metres (10 boxes; 14 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 1909-2014
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Archive of Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon

Papers of Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon, as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cyprus (1957-60)
Extents: 5.6 Linear metres (48 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1957-60
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Archive of Margaret Reardon

Papers, 1940-2015, of Margaret Reardon (b. 1920), relating to life as a colonial wife in Eritrea, Tanganyika, Bechuanaland, the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Extents: 0.6 Linear metres (6 physical shelfmarks; 5 digital shelfmarks)
Dates: 1940-2015
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Archive of Robert Henry Brand, Baron Brand

Papers of Robert Henry Brand, Baron Brand (1878-1963), merchant banker and public servant, 1896-1974
Extents: 23.28 Linear metres (236 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1892-1974
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Archive of Sir Edwin Arrowsmith

Archive of Sir Edwin Arrowsmith (1909-92) relating to his work for the Colonial Administrative Service. With a small amount of his papers as Director of the Overseas Development Resettlement Bureau.
Extents: 0.7 Linear metres (7 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1932-65, 1980
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Archive of Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams and Elizabeth Main

Papers of colonial governor Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams (1858-1920) and of his daughter, Elizabeth Main (1918-2010).
Extents: 1.05 Linear metres (7 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1880-2001
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Archive of Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier, and his family

The archive of Sydney Olivier, first Baron Olivier, (1859-1943), civil servant, politician and author, and his family, particularly his wife Margaret (c.1862-1953).
Extents: 3.3 Linear metres (22 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1870s-1951
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Cape Colony Letters

Letters written from Cape Colony. Correspondents include Sir Henry Barkly, Robert Brooke, Sir William Eyre, George Macartney, Sir Rawson William Rawson and Sir Richard Southey. Also included are 81 letters from Robert White to his uncle, Robert Godlonton, both partners in the firm of Godlonton, White & Co., printers, publishers and stationers of Graham's Town.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates: 1795-1880
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Correspondence and papers of Arthur Casswell Spooner

Correspondence, papers, diaries and photographs of Arthur Casswell Spooner (1906-96), Colonial Service Administrative Cadet, later Commissioner of Labour Department, in the Gold Coast (1928-52).
Extents: 0.75 Linear metres (12 physical shelfmarks)
Dates: 1928-95
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Correspondence of Sir G. J. Bower, with a Narrative about the Jameson Raid and the South African War

Miscellaneous correspondence, 1897-1898, 1926-1932 (15 items), and Bower's narrative written in 1900 of events leading to the Jameson raid and the South African war (1 volume).
Extents: 15 items, 1 volume
Dates: 1897-1898, 1900, 1926-1932
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Diaries and Letters of Lady Daphne Moore

Diaries and letters home, relating to the service of Lady Daphne Moore's husband, Henry, in Bermuda, Nigeria, Kenya and Sierra Leone, 1922-1947.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: 1922-1947
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Diaries and letters of Theodore R. Williams

Diaries (1912-1921) and letters home (1912-1924) as Administrative Officer in Northern Rhodesia.
Extents: 6 Volumes
Dates: 1912-1924
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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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Diaries of Sir John Maxwell

Diaries of Sir John Maxwell, relating to his career as a Colonial Administrator in the Gold Coast.
Extents: 5 boxes (22 volumes)
Dates: 1909-1930
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Letter-book of Sir Godfrey Yeatman Lagden

Letter-book as Resident Commissioner in Basutoland.
Extents: 2 volumes, 2 folders
Dates: 1884-1910
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Letters from Sir Graham John Bower (microfilm)

Copies of selected letters of Sir Graham John Bower, 1895-1928. Microfilm.
Extents: 2 Reels
Dates: 1895-1928
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Memoirs of Ann M. Davidson

"The real paradise: memories of Africa, 1950-1963", an account by Ann M. Davidson of her life as a District Officer's wife in Nyasaland (now Malawi), based on weekly letters to her mother. Bound typescript.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates: [1963?]
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Memoirs of Yvonne Fox

The Years Between, a typescript memoir dealing with her family, social and religious life, and with her later work as a teacher training college lecturer, covering the period 1945-1960; Bawku, carbon copy of a typescript memoir relating to period in the Gold Coast from 1939.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates: [c1939-1960]

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Indexed subjects
20th century 120
Colonial administrators 30
19th century 26
Nigeria -- Officials and employees 22
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria 17
Colonial administrators -- Africa 9
Colonial administrators -- Ghana 8
Colonial administrators -- Tanganyika 8
Ghana -- Officials and employees 8
Tanganyika -- Officials and employees 7
Kenya -- Officials and employees 6
Colonial administrators -- Zambia 5
21st century 4
Africa -- Officials and employees 4
Colonial administrators -- South Africa 4
Guyana -- Officials and employees 4
Uganda -- Officials and employees 4
Africa 3
Africa -- Description and travel 3
Australia 3
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Cameroon -- Officials and employees 3
Colonial administrators -- Africa, West 3
Colonial administrators -- Lesotho 3
Colonial administrators -- Uganda 3
Governors 3
Nigeria -- Description and travel 3
Photographs 3
Politics and Government 3
South Africa -- Officials and employees 3
Africa -- Pictorial works 2
Autobiographies 2
Botswana 2
Cameroon -- History 2
Colonial administrators -- -- -- Tanzania -- Diaries 2
Colonial administrators -- Correspondence 2
Colonial administrators -- Kenya 2
Colonial administrators -- Nigeria, Northern 2
Cyprus 2
Diaries 2
Gambia -- Officials and employees 2
Ghana -- Pictorial works 2
Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa 2
Guyana -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Hong Kong (China) -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
India 2
Jamaica -- Officials and employees 2
Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896 -- Personal narratives 2
Lesotho -- Officials and employees 2
Letters 2
Malawi -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Malaya -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Nigeria, Eastern -- Officials and employees 2
Nigeria, Northern -- Officials and employees 2
Palestine -- Officials and employees 2
Reminiscences 2
Solomon Islands -- Officials and employees 2
South African War, 1899-1902 -- Personal narratives 2
Tanzania -- Description and travel 2
Tanzania -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
Trinidad and Tobago -- Officials and employees 2
Uganda -- Description and travel 2
Zambia -- History 2
Zambia -- Officials and employees 2
Zambia -- Politics and government -- 20th century 2
18th century 1
Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1
Africa -- Discovery and exploration 1
Africa -- History -- 20th century 1
Africa, East 1
Africa, Southern -- History 1
Africa, West -- History 1
Agricultural industries -- Nigeria 1
Agriculture -- Africa 1
Agriculture -- Ghana -- Congresses and conventions 1
Agriculture -- Tanzania 1
Animals -- Africa 1
Anthropologists -- Nigeria 1
Anthropology 1
Asia -- Description and travel 1
Asia -- Pictorial works 1
Autobiographies -- Ghana 1
Autobiographies -- Malawi 1
Autobiographies -- Uganda -- Entebbe 1
Barotseland (Zambia) 1
Bechuanaland | British Protectorate | x Botswana 1
Belize -- Officials and employees 1
Bermuda -- Officials and employees 1
Boki (African people) 1
British India 1
British South Africa Company 1
British Virgin Islands -- Officials and employees -- Salaries, etc. 1
Calabar (Nigeria) -- Officials and employees 1
Cameroon -- Description and travel 1
Canada 1
Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) -- Officials and employees 1
Cathedrals -- Uganda 1
Ceylon -- Officials and employees 1
Civil Service -- Uganda -- Colonies 1
Civil service -- Nigeria, Eastern -- Colonies 1
Clubs -- England -- Oxford -- Photographs 1
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Indexed names
Great Britain | Colonial Administrative Service 90
Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 4
University of Oxford | Development Records Project 3
Atkinson | Michael C | b 1917 | Colonial Administrator 2
Bagenal | Charles James | 1877-1955 | Soldier and Colonial Administrator 2
Bower | Sir | Graham John | 1848-1933 | Knight | Colonial Administrator 2
Bridges | Albert Francis B | fl 1921-1949 | Colonial Administrator 2
Buxton | Clarence Edward Victor | 1892-1967 | Colonial Administrator 2
Church Missionary Society 2
Clementi | Sir | Cecil | 1875-1947 | Knight | colonial governor 2
Coryndon | Sir | Robert Thorne | 1870-1925 | Knight | Colonial Administrator 2
Cox | Harry Bernard | 1906-1989 | Colonial Administrator 2
Lagden | Godfrey Yeatman | 1851-1934 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 2
Popplewell | Geoffrey Douglas | b 1904 | District Officer Colonial Government 2
Robertson | Algar Ronald | 1902-1975 | Colonial Administrator 2
Walden | Stanley Arthur | 1905-1980 | Colonial Administrator 2
Adams | Sir | Hamilton John Goold- | 1858-1920 | Knight | colonial governor 1
African Research Survey 1
Aglen | E F | fl 1935 1
Allen | John Richard | 1916-1998 | colonial officer 1
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Arrowsmith | Sir | Edwin Porter | 1909-1992 | Knight | colonial governor 1
Barkly | Henry | 1815-1898 | Sir | Knight Colonial Governor 1
Barwick | Neville | b 1916 | Colonial Administrator 1
Best | Oswald Herbert | fl 1920-1930 | Colonial Administrator 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
Bower | Graham John | 1848-1933 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
Brand | Lord | Robert Henry |1878-1963 | Baron | merchant banker and public servant 1
Brayne-Baker | John | 1905-1997 | Colonial Administrator 1
Brice-Smith | Hugh Middleton | b 1884 | Colonial Administrator 1
Bridges | William Maclaren | b 1898 | Colonial Administrator 1
British South Africa Company 1
British West Charterland Company Limited 1
Brooke | Robert | d 1802 | Governor of St Helena 1
Brooke-Anderson | Amy | fl 1920-1926 | wife of Colonel Eric L Brooke-Anderson 1
Brooke-Anderson | Eric L | fl 1920-1926 | Colonel 1
Brooks | Robert Bernard | fl 1914-1932 | Colonial Administrator 1
Bryant | Herbert Collingwood A | b 1908 | Colonial Administrator 1
Caldecott | Andrew | 1884-1951 | Sir | Knight Governor General of Ceylon 1
Campbell | Archibald | 1914-1994 | Colonial Administrator 1
Campbell | Peggy Phyllis | fl 1939-1941 | wife of Archibald Campbell Colonial Administrator 1
Carrington | Mary Townsend | 1892-1980 | nee Eyres 1
Chaytor | Charles John | fl 1912-1932 | Colonial Administrator 1
Clementi | Augusta Mildred Warren | 1878-1969 | nee Graham 1
Clementi | Cecily Joyce | b 1915 1
Clementi | Cresswell Montagu | 1918-1981 | Air Vice-Marshal 1
Clementi | Dione Rose | 1914-2010 | lecturer in history 1
Clementi | Isabel | 1850–1930 | nee Collard 1
Clementi | Lockhart | 1881-after 1917 | Captain 1
Clementi | Marie Penelope Rose | 1889–1970 | nee Eyres | known as Penelope Clementi 1
Clementi | Montagu | 1839-1919 | Colonel, Judge Advocate-General in India 1
Clementi | Winifred Dorothy | d 1966 | nee Hobson | known as Dorothy Clementi 1
Coriat | - | fl 1920-1960 | wife of Percy Coriat, Colonial administrator 1
Coriat | Percy | fl 1920-1960 | Colonial administrator 1
Coryndon | Phyllis Mary | fl 1903-1947 | Lady | nee Worthington, wife of Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon 1
Culwick | Arthur Theodore | b 1905 | Colonial Administrator 1
Curtis | Lionel George | 1872-1955 | writer and public servant 1
Daniel | Clare | fl 1898-1906 | wife of Rowland Daniel, Colonial Administrator 1
Daniel | Rowland | fl 1898-1906 | Colonial Administrator 1
Davidson | Ann M | fl 1950-1963 | wife of Colonial Administrator 1
Davies | Arthur W | b 1915 | Colonial Administrator 1
Dawson | George Geoffrey | 1874-1944 | formerly Robinson | newspaper editor 1
Duncan-Johnstone | Angus Colin | b 1889 | Colonial Administrator 1
Dundas | Richard Saunders | 1802-1861 | Royal Navy officer, president of the Board of Control 1
Dutton | Eric Aldhelm Torlogh | 1895-1973 | Colonial Administrator 1
East African Estates Limited 1
Evans | Geoffrey | 1883-1963 | Sir | Knight and Colonial Administrator 1
Eyre | Antony G | b 1921 | Colonial Administrator 1
Eyre | William | 1805-1859 | Sir | Knight Major General 1
Eyres | Cresswell John | 1862-1949 | Admiral 1
Eyres | Rose Nankivell | 1863-1940 | nee Townsend 1
Fenning | Captain George Edward | fl 1919-1921 | Captain Colonial Civil Servant 1
Fenning | Ellen Kathleen | fl 1919-1921 | wife of Colonial Civil Servant 1
Fleming | J T | b 1924 | Barrister Colonial Administrator 1
Foot | Florence Sylvia | d 1985 | wife of Hugh Mackintosh Foot 1
Foot | Hugh Mackintosh | 1907-1990 | Baron Caradon | colonial administrator and diplomat 1
Fosbrooke | Jane | fl 1934-1935 | wife of Henry Fosbrooke 1
Fox | Yvonne | fl 1939-1960 | wife of S.A. Fox, colonial administrator 1
Furse | Ralph Dolignon | 1887-1973 | Sir | Knight and Colonial Administrator 1
Gardner | J A | b 1921 | Administrator Kenyan Government 1
Garraway | Sir | Edward Charles Frederick | 1865-1932 | Knight | colonial administrator 1
Gass | Sir | Michael David I | b 1916 | Knight | Colonial Administrator 1
Gedge | Ernest | 1862-1935 | colonial administrator 1
Gibbs | George Howard | 1889-1969 | Colonial Administrator 1
Giles | Laurence Cranmore | 1909-2007 | colonial officer 1
Goddard | Thomas Nelson | b 1889 | Colonial Administrator Falkland Islands Sierra Leone 1
Grant | Charles | 1746-1823 | politician who became the director of the East India Company in 1794 1
Great Britain | Colonial Office 1
Great Britain | Colonial Office | Officials and employees 1
Great Britain | Commission on Higher Education in East Africa and the Sudan 1
Great Britain | High Commission for Western Pacific Islands 1
Great Britain | Home Office 1
Grier | Selwyn | 1878-1946 | Sir | Knight Colonial Administrator 1
Grigg | Edward William Macleay | 1879-1955 | 1st Baron Altrincham | politician 1
Haig | E F G | fl 1930 | Colonial Administrator 1
Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 1
Harcourt | Henry Newton | b 1906 | Colonial Administrator 1
Hawkesworth | Edward Gerald | b 1897 | Sir | Colonial Administrator 1
Hector | Gordon Matthews | 1918-2001 | colonial officer and administrator 1
Hibbert | Francis Dennis | 1906-1975 | Colonial Administrator 1
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Language
English 130
Arabic 2
Chinese 1
French 1
German 1
Greek, Modern (1453-) 1
Italian 1
Japanese 1
Latin 1
Pushto; Pashto 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
Turkish 1