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Major accessions to repositories in 2005 relating to Imperial History |
Local
- Hamilton family of Rozelle: inventory of the negroes, stock etc on the Rozelle estate, Jamaica 1792 (Accession 1112)
- Documents rel to the Jamaican estates of Thomas Masters and John Spencer 18th cent (42049)
- Glossop Borough: records incl minutes and misc corresp rel to Boer War Relief Fund, women's suffrage and police force 19th-20th cent (D6362, D6422)
- R Domichetti, soldier, Darjeeling: diary 1863 (Acc 3065)
- Colonel Nathaniel Robert Radcliffe: scrapbook and diary, diaries of his father General George Travis Radcliffe 1899-1902 and father-in law, Rev FAW Hamilton-Gell 1879 1879-1906 (CR4000)
National
- Sir Alexander Robert Badcock, Knight General: diaries rel to 2nd Afghan War 1878-79 (NAM 2005-12-9)
- Charles James Napier, Knight General, Colonial Governor: corresp 1807-50 (NAM 2005-06-724)
- John Drinkwater Bethune, army officer and military historian: journal kept during the siege of Gibraltar 1781-82 (Acc.12502)
- Patrick Geddes, Knight biologist sociologist educationist and town planner: town planning reports rel to India and Palestine 1914-25 (Acc.12497)
Special
- Glanville family of Catchfrench: estate plans and journal of a tour to India 19th cent
- John Hosken Christopher, soldier, Indian Army Reserve: letters from service in Suez, India and Mesopotamia to a friend in Gulval, Cornwall 1914-1917
University
- Lascelles and Maxwell, commission agents, London: papers, incl records rel to holdings in Barbados 18th cent (43/2005)
- Meta Maclean, teacher and musician: misc papers rel to her career c1941-69 (RCMS 278/15)
- Geoffrey Moffat, field officer in colonial Nigeria: misc papers rel to his work for the West African Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research 1957-60 (RCMS 349)
- John Michael Alfred Sly, agronomist: memoirs and photographs rel to his colonial service in west Africa 1955-66, with a record of the time of his father Alfred GE Sly in the service 1920-31 1920-66 (RCMS 317)
- Aldhelm St John Sugg, colonial administrator: papers rel mainly to service in Northern Rhodesia 1910-97 (RCMS 348)
- Calcutta and Mofussil Scots Society, Dundee: additional records 2000-2005 (2005/191)
- Albert Guy Pawson, Administrator, Sudan Political Service: papers 1911-34 (G//S 1278)
- Philip Pawson, Administrator, Sudan Political Service: papers 1945-55 (G//S 1278)
- Patricia Vicars-Miles, wife of A.L.W. Vicars-Miles, Sudan Political Service: corresp 1931-1948 (G//S 1280)
- A L W Vicars-Miles, Administrator, Sudan Political Service: corresp, photographs, ephemera c1920-48 (G//S 1280)
- William Henry Wylde, Civil Servant: corresp c1840-80 (Misc.2004/2005:57)
- William Wylde, General: corresp c1841-50 (WYL)
- Sudan Government British Pensioners' Association: papers (G//S 1278)
- Whittall family of Smyrna: additional papers 1819-2000 (MS 259)
- John Shebbeare, Secretary of Ministry of Interior Affairs, Oman: personal papers and photograph album c 1970 (MS 293)
- Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Lebanon: papers rel to the history of MECAS 1950-2000 (MS 268)
- Frederick Campbell, General: reports, corresp, notes, photographs and maps rel to his career, incl time spent in Tibet and India 1904-17
- Alfred Richard Allen, civil servant, Nigeria: papers rel to his career in the Education Service, Nigeria 1956-73 (MSS Afr. s. 2380)
- Richard Brayne, colonial administrator: typescript 'Memories of Tanganyika', with maps and scanned photographs 1948-64 (MSS Afr. s. 2382)
- Joseph Stuart Espey, Senior Superintendent of the Northern Rhodesia Police: papers concerning the Ndola riots 1958 (MSS Afr. s. 2397)
- James Farquharson, engineer: transcript of speech on railways in East Africa and Sudan 1984 (MSS Afr. s. 2400)
- Philip Laurence, miner and soldier: letters to family rel to work in South African goldfields and Boer War service, with letters (3) from comrades describing his death, and background materials 1897-1992 (MSS Afr. s. 2395)
- Arthur Lawley, 6th Baron Wenlock: photocopy diary of journey to the north of Bualwayo 1898 (MSS Afr. s. 2391)
- Owen J Leech, teacher, Falkland Islands: letters to his parents with related papers 1971-97 (MSS Atlan. s. 18)
- David Mercer Macdougall, Brigadier Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong: additional letters (5) to his wife from Hong Kong, China and Lagos describing life in wartime Hong Kong and his escape after the invasion 1940-42 (MSS Ind. Ocn. s. 369)
- Miriam Staunton, wife of colonial administrator: letters, mainly to her mother, with papers, cuttings and photographs rel to Federation of African Women's Clubs, Southern Rhodesia 1945-89 (MSS Afr. s. 2399)
- William Thomas Stead, Journalist and Author: letters (11) to Marie Koompans-De Wet, rel to Anglo-Boer War 1900-01 (MSS Afr. s. 2389)
- Alan Young, colonial administrator, Malaya: memoirs of his time in Malayan Civil Service (1953-62) 2002 (MSS Ind. Ocn. s. 367)
- Drawings and photographs of the Bechuanaland Border Police at Macloutsie, taken by Capt. Sherwood D Browne 1892 (MSS Afr. s. 2390)
- Records for the Morris, Pond and Salt Pond estates, St Kitts, incl plans, sugar and crop records 1781-1812 (MSS W.Ind. s. 73)
- Anonymous MS journal 'Ten years wandering in South Africa: a journey to the diamond and gold fields' 1880 (MSS Afr. s. 2401)
- John Richard Charters Symonds (b. 1918), United Nations Official: papers
- Marjorie Page, Baptist Missionary Society missionary in the Congo: typescript memoirs of her time in the Congo (1938-65) (BMS Acc. 204)
- Percy Cleaver, policeman, Palestine: photograph album showing sites in Palestine and Palestinian Police 1936-38 (0358)
- William Everett, Knight Colonel Diplomat: additional papers incl diaries (1882-1908), corresp, maps and family photographs c1860-1908 (0100)
- Palestine Police Old Comrades' Association: additional material including newsletters, nominal roll, memorial service sheets, corresp and Palestine Mandate period material including a photograph album of K. Tomlinson c1940-2005 (0224)
- Additional papers rel to the British Mandate Palestine Police incl training materials and typescript accounts (2) rel to accommodation in Jerusalem and terrorist attacks 1945-46 (0379)
- Diaries, corresp, memoirs etc on the experience of migration to Australia collected by Al Thompson and Jim Hammerton, lecturers, for the book 'Ten Pound Poms' 1950-2000 (SxMOA25)
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