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Collection
Papers of Professor R. W. Heussler
Letters and papers on thesis and in preparation for his book, Yesterday's Rulers. The making of the British Colonial Service (London, Oxford University Press, 1963; Syracuse, N.Y., Syracuse University Press, 1963), 1906-1977
Letters concerning the Oxford Colonial Records Project, 1962-1969
Papers relating to research on British Tanganyika, 1960-1974
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Extents: 19 boxes
Dates:
1950-1984
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 the East Africa Dinner Club
Minute books (1927-1966), lists of members (1935-1940, 1957-1970), annual dinner-table plans (1928-1939, 1952-1967).
Extents: 3 volumes, 1 box
Dates:
1927-1970
Collection
Papers relating to the development of Sukumaland, Tanganyika
Memoranda, correspondence, diaries, photographs and associated material of administrators involved in the development of Sukumaland, Tanganyika, in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Extents: 0.6 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates:
1900-1984
Collection
Papers relating to the transfer of power in Nyasaland
Reports, memoranda, reminiscences, photographs and associated material of administrators, on political and economic conditions in Nyasaland, principally from post World War II to Independence, 1946-1964.
Extents: 0.9 Linear metres (6 boxes)
Dates:
1926-1985
Collection
Papers of Frank Derek Corfield, mainly relating to Mau Mau
Historical survey of the origins and growth of Mau Mau, by Corfield, in 2 volumes, plus appendices, commissioned by the Kenyan Government and published in an abridged version in 1960. Also, correspondence and news cuttings relating to Mau Mau, the Survey, East African affairs and the Joint East and Central African Board, 1956-1967.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1956-1967
Collection
Papers of Hubert Childs
Journals of tours of administrative service in Nigeria and Cameroon (1932-1948). Also, reports and papers relating to service in Nigeria (1933-1935), Sierra Leone (1950-1956), and Southern Cameroon (1960-1961).
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1932-1961
Collection
Papers of Sir Edward Brandis Denham
Diaries covering Mauritius (1921-1923), Kenya (1923-1928), Gambia (1928-1930), British Guiana (1930-1934) and Jamaica (1934-1938). 30 volumes. Also, papers relating to Ceylon (1911-1917), Gambia (1816-1929) and British Guiana (1806-1932), including some 19th century papers dated before Denham's time. 2 boxes.
Extents: 30 volumes and 2 boxes
Dates:
1806-1938
Collection
Papers of A.T. Jourdain
Official and private correspondence (1954-1958), including notes and letters as representative of John Holt & Company (Nigeria) Ltd. and as Special Member of the House of Assembly in Northern Nigeria. Also, unofficial reports of sessions of the House of Assembly (1956-1958).
Extents: 2 Files
Dates:
1954-1958
Collection
Papers of Villiers B.V. Powell relating to Nigerian sports teams
Reports, diaries, correspondence, photographs and press cuttings relating to various international tours made by Nigerian sports teams, 1948-1964, including participation in Olympic Games, as sometime General Team Manager.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1948-1964
Collection
Papers of William H. Potts, Charles H. N. Jackson and Bernard D. Burtt
The collection mainly consists of papers relating to the work of William Herbert Potts in the Department of Tsetse Research in Shinyanga (includes diaries, correspondence, reports, data, statistics and printed material, 1920s-1950s). Also, letters home (1927-1932) from C.H.N. Jackson, and diaries (1925-1937) of B.D. Burtt.
Extents: 18 boxes
Dates:
1920s-1950s
Collection
Food and Cash Crops in the British Commonwealth
Reports, memoranda and papers of 63 administrators, relating to their experiences in agriculture and administration in Commonwealth and colonial territories after 1945, with a selection of their printed articles, etc.
Extents: 9 boxes
Dates:
[1980s]
Collection
Papers of J. R. Granville Bantock
Letters home, diaries, reports, photographs and press cuttings relating to service in the Ceylon Police Force, 1920-1939.
Extents: 3 boxes, 1 volume
Dates:
1920-1939
Collection
Papers of Alexander Mair Wilkie
Correspondence, memoranda etc. of service in Kenya, the British Solomon Islands and as British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides.
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates:
1935-1969
Collection
Primary and Secondary Education in Six Selected African Territories
Memoranda, correspondence, diaries, etc. relating to primary, secondary and teacher education in the Gold Coast/Ghana, Northern Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, Nyasaland/Malawi, Tanganyika/Tanzania and Uganda, [1928-1984].
Extents: 50 boxes
Dates:
[1928-1984]
Collection
Papers of Clarence E.V. Buxton
Papers, reports and correspondence relating to Kenya, 1921-1964, Zanzibar, 1913-1965, and Palestine, 1939.
Extents: 8 boxes
Dates:
1913-1965
Collection
Papers of the East Africa European Pioneers' Society
Papers, including accounts, biographies, minutes, reminiscences etc.
Extents: 9 boxes
Dates:
1952-1964
Collection
Papers of Frederick Karl Butler
Report on, and diary of, the operations of 11th African Division of Abyssinia, from River Tana to Addis Ababa, February-April 1941, with letters home and maps (1 box). Cricket in Nigeria, a history, also by Butler, 1946, with scorebooks, 1925-1953 (1 box).
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1925-1953
Collection
Papers of Sir John Valentine W. Shaw
Press cuttings, photographs, correspondence and reports relating to service in the Gold Coast, Cyprus, Palestine, Trinidad and Sierra Leone, 1924-1955; album of photographs of service as Chief Secretary, Palestine, 1946; album of gramophone recordings of speeches made at inauguration as Governor of Trinidad, 1947.
Extents: 3 Volumes
Dates:
1924-1955
Collection
Papers of Sir Patrick Muir Renison
The collection mainly consists of speeches and broadcasts made by Renison while serving in the West Indies and in Kenya. Topics covered in the speeches include Kenya's constitutional advancement, the Conference at Lancaster House in 1960, and the constitutional talks held in Nairobi in 1961. Also included in the collection is a small amount of correspondence about the future of the Overseas Civil Service and papers concerning recruitment.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates:
1949-1962
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- Wilberforce | Samuel | 1805-1873 | Bishop of Oxford and Winchester 15
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- Parker | George | fl 1869-1897 | antiquary and Clerk of the Schools, University of Oxford 8
- Salter | Herbert Edward | 1863-1951 | Historian 8
- Sherard | James | 1666-1738 | apothecary, botanist and amateur musician 8
- Tanner | Thomas | 1674-1735 | Bishop of St Asaph and antiquary 8
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- Bennett | Sir | William Sterndale | 1816–1875 | Knight | composer 7
- Blow | John | 1648-1708 | composer 7
- Carte | Thomas | 1686-1754 | historian 7
- Charles I | 1600-1649 | King of England, Scotland and Ireland 7
- Church of England | Bishops 7
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- Gibson | Strickland | 1877-1958 | Librarian and Bibliographer 7
- Gutch | John | 1746-1831 | clergyman, antiquary, Registrar of Oxford University 7
- Hailey | William Malcolm | 1872-1969 | 1st Baron Hailey 7
- Hodgkin | Dorothy Mary Crowfoot | 1910-1994 | nee Crowfoot | chemist 7
- Lugard | Frederick John Dealtry | 1858-1945 | Baron Lugard of Abinger | colonial administrator, soldier and author 7
- Macartney | George | 1737-1806 | 1st Earl Macartney | diplomatist and colonial governor 7
- Milner | Alfred | 1854-1925 | Viscount Milner | statesman 7
- Ouseley | Sir | Frederick Arthur Gore | 1825–1889 | 2nd Baronet | Professor of Music at Oxford University 7
- Oxford University Dramatic Society 7
- Oxford University | All Souls College 7
- Talbot | William Henry Fox | 1800-1877 | MP, pioneer of photography 7
- Tolkien | John Ronald Reuel | 1892-1973 | philologist and author 7
- University of Oxford | Jesus College 7
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- Aristotle | 384-322 BC | Greek philosopher 6
- Asquith | Margaret Emma Alice (Margot) | 1864-1945 | née Tennant | Countess of Oxford and Asquith | political hostess and diarist 6
- Austen | Jane | 1775-1817 | Novelist 6
- Bandinel | Bulkeley | 1781-1861 | Bodley's Librarian 6
- British Records Association 6
- Butterworth | George Sainton Kaye | 1885-1916 | composer and folk song collector 6
- Church Missionary Society 6
- Coghill | Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer | 1899-1980 | literary historian 6
- Conservative Party | Conservative Political Centre 6
- Conservative Party | affiliated organisations 6
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- Corelli | Arcangelo | 1653-1713 | composer and violinist 6
- Dodds | Eric Robertson | 1893-1979 | classical scholar 6
- Elizabeth I | 1533-1603 | Queen of England and Ireland 6
- Fell | John | 1625-1686 | Bishop of Oxford 6
- Gibbons | Orlando | 1583-1625 | composer 6
- James | Thomas | ? 1573-1629 | Bodley's Librarian and Sub Dean of Wells 6
- Jones | John Collier | 1770-1838 | Rector of Exeter College Oxford 6
- Masefield | John Edward | 1878-1967 | poet and novelist 6
- Nicholson | Edward Williams Byron | 1849-1912 | Bodley's Librarian, Poet, and Celtic and Biblical Scholar 6
- Oxford University Scout and Guide Group 6
- Oxford University | Exeter College 6
- Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society (formerly Oxford Architectural Society) 6
- Parry | Sir | Charles Hubert Hastings | 1848-1918 | Knight | composer and musical writer 6
- Sadler | Sir | Michael Ernest | 1861-1943 | Knight | educational pioneer and art patron 6
- Savile | Sir | Henry | 1549-1622 | knight | mathematician 6
- Sayers | Dorothy Leigh | 1893-1957 | playwright, author and humanist 6
- Starkie | Enid | 1897-1970 | scholar 6
- University of Cambridge 6
- University of Oxford | Lincoln College 6
- University of Oxford | Sir William Dunn School of Pathology x Dunn School 6
- Wilberforce | family | 1614-1900 | Markington 6
- Acland | Sarah Angelina | 1849-1930 | Fellow of Royal Photographic Society and Royal Society of Arts 5
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