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Major Accessions to Repositories 1997 relating to Imperial and Commonwealth History
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National, Special and University
- Cecil James Parker (1906-72), architect: designs incl projects in India and Singapore
- Sir Raymond Firth (b1901), professor of anthropology: field notes rel to Tikopia and Malaya (FIRTH)
- Virginia Hole (neé Adam), anthropologist: diaries and notes rel to Tanzania 1961-63 (ADAM VIRGINIA)
- George Edward Lovelace Carter (d1974), Indian Civil Service: papers rel to the history, archaeology and folklore of India, Pakistan and Kashmir (Add 9456)
- Richard Simpson Gundry (1838-1924), editor of North China Herald: journal of a trip from Shanghai to Ningpo (Add 9269)
- Sir John Carmichael, colonial administrator and businessman: papers rel to service with Sudan Ministry of Finance 1953-59 (G//S 1166)
- Sir Donald Frederick Hawley, diplomat: papers rel to service in Sudan, Egypt, Nigeria, Iraq, Muscat, Oman and Malayia 1944-81 (Hawley)
- John Simpson Owen, conservationist: papers rel to Expatriate Civil Servants Association and conservation 1936-55 (G//S 1163)
- Unity High School for Girls, Khartoum: minutes 1950-85 (G//S 1176)
- Captain George Eric Barclay: corresp rel to campaigns of Northern Nigeria Regiment in Cameroons and East Africa 1913-17
- Noel William Bailey Clarke, civilian internee in Shanghai: papers 1943-45
- Lt-Colonel John Euston Bell Finlay: papers rel to Australian branch of Special Operations Executive 1945-79
- Mervyn Cecil ffrank Sheppard (later Tan Sri Mubin Sheppard), civilian internee in Singapore: papers 1942-45
- Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (1849-1902) MP: papers
- Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (1881-1926) MP and war correspondent: papers rel to Boer war, journalism and political career
- Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation: records 1926-95 incl Imperial Communications Advisory Committee, Commonwealth Communications Council and Commonwealth Telecommunications Board
- Foreign Correspondents Association of South Africa: records 1976-86
- Lt-Colonel Walter George Hingston (1905-93): papers rel to service in Indian Army
- Sir Cuthbert Sprawson (1877-1956), Director General of the Indian Medical Service: memoir rel to career
- Lt-Colonel George Greville Woods (1870-1947): papers rel to China and India incl photographs
- Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine: records 20th cent (D. 745)
- Herbert Louis Samuel, Viscount Samuel (1870-1963), statesman: corresp (copies) when British High Commissioner in Palestine
- Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright, diplomat: papers rel to service as vice-consul in Romania and Turkey 1939-45
- Captain Geoffrey Dempsey, Royal Garhwal Rifles: diary of trek in Himalayas 1942-43 (9710-74)
- Corporal Thomas Dunn: journal of 1st Afghan War (9712-67)
- Major Mervyn Charles Holmes, 10/11th Sikh Regiment: papers 1940-46 (9708-48)
- Major-General Henry John Milnes MacAndrew (1866-1919): letters from South Africa (9706-48)
- Lt-Lewis Benjamin Muret, Madras Artillery: diary and commonplace book 1783-86 (9710-130)
- General Lord Rawlinson (1864-1925) (addnl): telegram and message books rel to Sudan and South Africa (9707-19)
- Dogra Regimental Association: files and records 1908-97 (9710-133)
- William Stevenson, missionary and mission administrator, Madras (addnl): corresp and papers 1810-69 (Acc 11421)
- Enterprize, slaver: account book of voyage from Liverpool to the Congo and Jamaica 1794-95 (DX/1732)
- Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (1829-1928): three volumes of watercolours rel to the people, flora and fauna of the Kotagiri region of India
- Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), traveller and archaeologist (addnl): letters to Sir Frank Swettenham
- Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1829-1906), statesman and author (addnl): corresp and diaries (Mss Eur G128)
- Major-General Charles John Bruce Hay (1877-1940), Indian Army: diaries and letters as a subaltern (Mss Eur F234)
- Reverend Henry George Keene (1781-1864), professor of Arabic, Haileybury College: commonplace book (Mss Eur C813)
- William Porter, private, Madras Artillery: letters 1828-57 (Mss Eur G128)
- George Vansittart (1745-1825), East India Company servant: corresp and accounts (Mss Eur F331)
- Theodore Robinson, missionary: reminiscences and photographs of Serampore, Calcutta 1911
- Mrs Smylys Homes: records rel to childrens homes in Dublin and Canada 1827-1987 (MS 586/closed)
- FW Benson: corresp 1900-01 (MSS Afr r 246)
- Sir Cecil Clementi (1875-1947), colonial administrator and traveller: papers as governor of Malaya
- Winston Joseph Field (1904-69), Rhodesian farmer and politician: corresp and papers
- Max Marwick: research papers on the Chewa people of Zambia and the Ngoni people of Malawi 1946-49
- Hilary Flegg Mitchell: research papers on Zimbabwe social migration patterns 1963-65
- Stephen Morris: research papers on the Oya River area of Sarawak 1950-90
- Terence Ranger: corresp and papers rel to Zimbabwe and Tanzania 1955-97 incl corresp and minutes of Britain Zimbabwe Society 1981-96
- South African Advanced Education Project: charity records c1986-94
- John William Purseglove (1912-91), tropical crop specialist: papers rel to plant collecting in Uganda and south east Asia
- Colin Trapnell: botanical and agricultural papers incl notebooks, diaries and photographs rel to Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Southern Africa 1926-70
- Maurice Alfred Maybury (1914-95), colonial administrator: papers (PP MS 64)
- Edwin Smith (1876-1957), missionary and anthropologist: diaries and papers (PP MS 66)
- Council for World Mission (addnl): minutes and corresp of London Missionary Society auxiliary societies in Leeds, London and Newcastle 1813-1960 (CWM)
- Alfred Bowyer Barton (1825-1905), surgeon: journal and sketches rel to Yangtse expedition (acc 350792)
- John William Mudge (1817-86), surgeon: journal rel to Burma, southern India and Ceylon (MS 7454)
- Charles Irving Smith (1809-71), surgeon: commonplace book rel to Bangalore (MS 7367)
- Dr Leigh Ashton, medical missionary: papers rel to smallpox epidemic, Kenya 1945 (GC/195)
- Donald Blacklock (1879-1953), professor of tropical medicine: corresp and papers rel to malaria control in West Africa (GC/215)
- Frederick Murgatroyd (1902-51), Wellcome professor of tropical medicine (addnl): corresp (GC/27)
- Medical Research Council, Infant Malnutrition Research Unit, Uganda: notebooks and microfilm 1960-67 (GC/212)
Local Repositories in England
- Jessop & Co: letters of George Jessop rel to overseas iron trade incl India 19th cent (D4753)
- Cornelius Albert Beckett of Lancaster: diary of voyage to Australia 1879 (DDX 2159)
- Society of East India Commanders: letter book 1773-1828 (Ms 31376)
- Leonard Charles Blackman, private, Australian Imperial Force: corresp and papers 1916-18 (DE586)
- Arthur Turner, missionary on Baffin Island: diaries and corresp 1929-53 (HA 204)
- John Hudspith Turner, missionary on Baffin Island: diaries and corresp 1929-53 (HA 204)
- John White, Jamaica merchant, London: cash book 1838-52 (Acc 1993)
Local Repositories in Scotland
- John Clarke, captain, Arbroath and Australia: diary, accounts and papers 1847-93 (MS 564)
- George Matthew Smith, Arbroath and Australia: letters and papers 1885-1936 (MS 565)
- Baillie family of Dunain, Inverness-shire: family and estate papers incl Macdonnell of Glengarry papers, records of Inverness-shire Fencibles and corresp and accounts rel to military service in India c1724-1869 (HCA/D456)
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