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A historical map titled “Ex-German Properties in the Cameroons, West Africa – Key Map.” the map outlines rivers, borders, and terrain contours in black, with the Atlanttic ocean
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21 November 2025

Our volunteers have finished cataloguing Colonial Office correspondence from Cameroons and Togoland, explore these records here.

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  • A map of a section of coast above a drawing of a jetty beside rocks and trees.
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    13 June 2025

    Volunteer Dr Brenda Mortimer examines how Australia's Norfolk Island became ‘a place of the extremest punishment’ for colonial convicts in the 1820s.

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