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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Collection

Archive of Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner, 1824-1955

Archive of Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner related to his political career, and including mainly correspondence with Earl of Selborne as well as papers of other members of the Palmer family.
Extents: 69.90 Linear metres (699 shelfmarks)
Dates: 1824-1955
Collection

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
Single Item

Letters from Rowland and Clare Daniel (photocopies)

Letters from Rowland Daniel, to his mother and sisters, written on voyage to Cape Town, Africa, and on arrival in Mafeking to join the Bechuanaland Police Mounted Regiment (1898). Also, letters from Rowland Daniel (and some from his wife Clare) as Resident Magistrate in Serowe and Assistant Commissioner in Francistown (1906). Photocopies.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.2015
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1898, 1906
Collection

Papers of Dr. Kenneth R.S. Morris

Letters, diaries, reports, memoranda and photographs relating to service in the Gold Coast (1929-1952), Uganda (1955-1958, and c.1961-1963) and Liberia (1959-1960), mainly concerning research into sleeping sickness and the tsetse fly, with related printed material, 1932-1960.
Extents: 11 boxes
Dates: 1929-1963
Collection

Papers of General Sir Richard Bourke

Correspondence and papers mainly relating to his administration of the Cape of Good Hope colony (Cape Colony), with a summary of content. Comprises: Letters to Bourke, 1825-1829 (5 volumes) Drafts and copies of letters from Bourke, 1826-1845 (3 volumes) Indexes to despatches received, 1826-1828 (2 volumes) Instructions to Bourke, 1816-1827 (2…
Extents: 31 Volumes
Dates: 1816-1845
Single Item

Report on labour problems in British tropical Africa by Arthur W. Davies

"Labour problems in British tropical Africa", 1939. Typescript.
Shelfmark: MSS.Afr.s.1879
Extents: 45 Leaves
Dates: 1939