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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Collection

Archive of Sir Kenneth William Blackburne

Correspondence, etc. relating to cadetship in Nigeria, 1929-1950 Diaries and Colonial Office letters concerning period of office in Palestine, 1935-1940 Letters written by Blackburne and his wife to his parents and her mother, 1935-1941, 1943-1946, 1950-1956 Correspondence and a report relating to period of office in the Gambia, 1941-1943 …
Extents: 3.75 Linear metres (25 boxes)
Dates: 1929-1963
Collection

Correspondence and papers of Sir William Denis Battershill

Correspondence, mainly with the immediate Battershill family, 1908-1956 Papers concerning administrative service, chiefly in Cyprus, Palestine and Tanganyika, 1935-1957 Notes on safaris undertaken in Tanganyika and Kenya, 1945-1948 Manuscript and printed material relating to the political situation in Cyprus, also typescript of personal reflections on the island,…
Extents: 14 boxes
Dates: 1914-1952
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

Interviews with Malcolm John MacDonald

Tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by Dame Margery Perham, Sir Kenneth Bradley, Ivan Lloyd Phillips and Curtis Nordman, 1970-1974, relating to service as Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and for the Colonies, 1935-1940, and later in Kenya and Malaya.
Extents: 8 Files
Dates: 1970-1974
Single Item

Memoirs of Jon Wainwright

Typescript memoirs, c1991.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 548
Extents: 61 ff.
Dates: c1991
Collection

Memoirs of Robert Everard Wainwright

Memoirs, [1980s], including service in Kenya and in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and also his role as an observer during the Rhodesian and Ugandan elections of 1980.
Extents: 2 Volumes
Dates: [1980s]
Single Item

Paper on Gladstone at the Colonial Office, 1846

Paper entitled Gladstone at the Colonial Office, 1846, by Professor Alan Shaw of Monash University, presented at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Australian Studies Centre, 1986.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 543
Extents: 16 ff.
Dates: 1986
Single Item

Papers of Alan Collings

Reports, memoranda and handing-over notes as Administrative Officer in Tanganyika, 1947-1961, as Financial Adviser in the New Hebrides, 1970-1972, and as Financial Secretary in Montserrat and Gibraltar, 1975-1979.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 497
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1947-1979
Single Item

Papers of Charles Frederick C. Macaskie

Correspondence concerning work as Chief Civil Affairs Officer in British North Borneo following the recapture of the territory from the Japanese, 1945-1947, with draft autobiography (typescript).
Shelfmark: MSS. Pac. s. 71
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1945-1947]
Single Item

Papers of C.H.F. Blake

Papers relating to service, including memoranda, reports, minutes, etc., [1942-1960].
Shelfmark: MSS. Ind. Ocn. s. 276
Extents: 1 box
Dates: [1942-1960]
Collection

Papers of Dame Margery Freda Perham

Family papers, including journals and correspondence, [1881-1977] Papers relating to academic career, 1908-77 Papers relating to non-academic activities and interests, [1916-1980] Papers relating to publishers, finance, charities and disposition of archives, [1925-80] Correspondence, [1931-1979] Diaries, [1910-1980] …
Extents: 771 boxes
Dates: [1844]-1980
Collection

Papers of David Beatty

Letters home from Canton and Christmas Island, with related photographs, press cuttings and farewell addresses, 1899-1954; transcript of journal of his father Robert Beatty's voyage to India, 1856.
Extents: 3 boxes : The farewell address, 1926, written on silk and originally stored in a wooden box, was donated to the library in a large frame format, with degraded paper backing. The Conservation Section of the Bodleian Library undertook limited drycleaning, minor repairs, etc. in [March 1997], rehousing the item in a card box and placing a hollytex sheet against the silk to prevent abrasion when rolled. Future plans for the item's preservation include flat storage and remounting of the silk with new borders by an experienced Oriental conservator.
Dates: [1856], 1899-1954
Collection

Papers of Frank Brewer

Joint Wages Commission Report of the Federation of Malaya and Singapore, 1948, with related papers on labour regulation and statistical information; Chinese papers relating to the Malayan emergency, 1948-1949; notes on Malayan political parties, 1954; lectures and articles on Malayan Chinese; speeches and pamphlets given to Brewer by Dato Sir Cheng-lock Tan; invitations and programmes for independence celebrations and other events, 1953-1959.
Extents: 3 boxes
Dates: 1948-1959
Single Item

Papers of Frank Thomas Russell

Detailed memoirs of service, 1930-1973.
Shelfmark: MSS. Afr. s. 1939
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1930-1973
Single Item

Papers of George C. Gillan

Letter from government officers upon his retirement as Treasurer of Sarawak, 1924; Sarawak racing programmes, 1904-1924; photographs relating to a service in Sarawak; dedication of a Sarawak World War II memorial window and tablet at Sheepstor, 1950.
Shelfmark: MSS. Pac. s. 102
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1904-1950
Single Item

Papers of George Frederick A. Hibberd

Personal papers covering colonial service in the Gold Coast, 1940-1946, Nyasaland, 1947-1952 and Singapore, 1952-1957.
Shelfmark: MSS. Brit. Emp. s. 479
Extents: 1 box
Dates: 1940-1957
Collection

Papers of Henry Labouchere, 1st Baron Taunton

Letters, notes, memoranda, etc. on British imperial affairs, including material relating to the colonial church, Jamaica, Prince Edward Island, New Zealand, Victoria (British Columbia), Trinidad and Malta, 1854-1858.
Extents: 126 ff.
Dates: 1854-1858
Collection

Papers of Hugh Tulloch

Papers relating to career in prison service in Palestine, Egypt, Shanghai, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, including police orders, correspondence, memoranda, photographs, printed material and press cuttings, 1936-1966.
Extents: 2 boxes
Dates: 1936-1966
Collection

Papers of Ivan Lloyd Phillips

Letters written home while on service in the Gold Coast, Palestine, Cyprus and Malaya, 1934-1959, with related appointment diaries, photographs, letters and papers, 1931-1984.
Extents: 4 boxes
Dates: 1931-1977
Collection

Papers of John Hamer

Papers relating to British administration of Perlis, Malaya and relations with the Rajas, 1915-1957; some early agreements with Siam regarding loans and suzerainty, 1905-1909; papers relating to Communist infiltration and organised criminal activities, 193-?.
Extents: 2 boxes, 1 portfolio
Dates: [1905-1957]