Major Accessions to Repositories 1996 relating to Imperial And Commonwealth History

National, Special and University Repositories

Aberdeen University, Department of Special Collections and Archives

• Patrick K Booker: official and personal papers mainly rel to the Federation of South Arabia and Adenisation c1950-70 (AUL MS 3520)

Bodleian Library

• Sir Walter Douglas (Con) O'Neill (1912-88), diplomat: papers

British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections

• Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey: corresp and papers 1728-1832 (MSS Eur G37)
• James Horsburgh, East India Company hydrographer and geographer: letterbook and notebook 1796-1823 (MSS Eur F305)
• George Nathaniel Curzon, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston: corresp and papers 1866-1925 (MSS Eur F111-12)
• Mary Victoria Curzon, wife of George Nathaniel Curzon: corresp 1887-1906 (MSS Eur F306)
• Sir George Henry Sutherland, businessman in India: corresp, annual reports and balance sheets rel to Begg, Dunlop & Co c1890-1937 (MSS Eur F308)

Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

• Captain Owen B Wallis, 1st Battalion Herefordshire Regiment: corresp and papers rel to the Irish emergency 1919-20 (Add 8856/260-290)
• Meyer Fortes, anthropologist: papers rel to Ashanti Social Survey 1945-46 (Add 9359)
• S Osborne, naval cadet: log books from HMSs Sans Pareil, Bellerophon, Victory and Exmouth during Crimea and Baltic campaigns 1853-56 (Add 9364)
• Captain William Edward Gibb, East India Company, 14th Madras Native Infantry: journals of British expeditionary force to the Yangtze river and recruiting tour in the Carnatic 1838-39 (Add 9377)
• GA Douglas: naval log books of HMSs Impérieuse and Coromandel during Taiping Rebellion 1861-65 (Add 9378)
• Henry T Ellis: naval journals kept aboard HMS Styx during Kaffir and Burmese Wars 1852-53 (Add 9420)

Churchill Archives Centre

• Joseph Francis Ford, diplomat: diaries 1960-64 (FORD)
• Reginald Hugh Hickling, solicitor: memoirs of last days of the British in South Arabia 1964-67 (HICK)
• Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps (1875-1945), diplomat (addnl): papers (PHPP)

Durham University Library Archives and Special Collections

• Sir Evelyn Baring,1st Baron Howick of Glendale: career papers esp rel to period as governor of Kenya 1952-59 (Misc. 1995/96:19)

Durham University, Sudan Archive

• EG Bowers: diary of an anti-locust reconaissance trip from Cairo to El Fasher 1945 (G//S 1141)
• Reginald Davies, colonial administrator: corresp and papers 1911-42 (G//S 1134)
• David James Lewis, medical entomologist: corresp and papers 1944-55 (G//S 1129)
• Sir William Henry Tusker Luce, diplomat: corresp and papers 1930-56 (G//S 1144)
• Maurice Stanley Lush, colonial administrator: corresp and papers 1916-59 (G//S 1144)

Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents

• Sir Donald James Dundas Maitland: papers rel to his service with IV Indian Corps in Burma 1945
• Reverend David Bruce Nicol: letters to his wife while serving as a chaplain to the forces in France, Salonika and Palestine 1916-19
• Dr Richard Alan Pallister: papers of a civilian internee in Singapore 1942-45
• Brigadier Geoffrey Pigot: papers rel to service with the Indian Army 1914-47
• Brigadier John Mervyn Prower: letters rel to service in Canadian Expeditionary Force 1915-17
• Surgeon-General Sir William Daniel Campbell Williams: diary recording his service with the Australian Imperial Force 1914-15

Institute of Commonwealth Studies

• Gencor Ltd, mining company, South Africa (addnl): misc records 1909-87
• Madge Gill, Institute of Education: report on racial policy in colonial areas 1953
• Rosie Goldsmith, radio producer: scripts and audio tapes of Diverging Dominions 1996
• Colin Legum, journalist (addnl): research papers rel to colonial and commonwealth matters 1950-77
• Mukwaba and others v Mukibira and others, Uganda High Court: records 1954

Lambeth Palace Library

• Cyril Edgar Stuart (1892-1982), bishop of Uganda: typescript memoirs

Leeds University, Brotherton Library, Liddle Collection

• Lt Colin Harrison, Royal Scots Greys: corresp while serving in the Boer War
• Lt-Colonel Foucar: notes rel to the Burma campaign 1939-45

Liddell Hart Centre for Military Studies

• Brigadier Eric Wilfrid Langlands: papers rel to service in the Indian Army (copies) 1918-47
• Major-General John Sydney Lethbridge: corresp and papers rel to Burmese campaigns 1943-45

Oxford University, St Anthony's College, Middle East Centre

• Herbert R Sykes: tour diaries, survey reports and lectures rel to Persian geography 1902-07

National Army Museum

• Private Samuel West, 16th Lancers: letters from India 1822-26 (9604-220)
• Private John Pine, Rifle Brigade: letters from the Cape of Good Hope and the Crimea 1850-55 (9605-4)
• Private Henry Clayton, 17th Foot: letters from Ireland, Crimea and Canada 1854-59 (9611-53)
• Lt Andrew Nugent, 2nd Dragoons: letters from the Crimea 1854-55 (9601-22)
• Trooper William Kuhn, British South Africa Police: letters 1898-1901 (9604-15)
• Major Geoffrey Tylden (1883-1970), military historian: research papers especially rel to British military activity in South Africa (9610-104 - transferred from Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
• Bombay Grenadiers Regimental Association: records and papers 1947-91 (9601-61)

National Library of Scotland

• Sir Robert Heatlie Scott, diplomat and civil servant (addnl): papers 1924-80 (Acc 11331)

National Maritime Museum Manuscripts Section

• Unattributed journal (transcript) kept during the Cartagena expedition 1740-41 (X96/073)

Public Record Office

• British Council (addnl): records (BW 1, 2, 40, 83)
• Field-Marshal Viscount Wolseley (1833-1913) (addnl): papers (WO 147)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• Unionist Anti-Partition League, Dublin: records 1905-26 (D/4125)

Rhodes House Library

• Sir Gawain Westray Bell, governor of Nigeria: papers rel to governorship of Nigeria and of postings elsewhere 1957-62
• Devlin Commission: papers of the Nyasaland enquiry 1959
• Pauling plc, civil engineering contractors, London: papers rel to civil engineering works in southern Africa and elsewhere 1894-1982
• Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard (1852-1929): papers
• John Wentworth Stacpoole, civil servant: diaries while district officer in Sierra Leone 1959-60

Royal Commonwealth Society Library

• Adolf B Brewster (1854-1937): papers rel to Fiji (MSS 91)
• Kenneth A Brundle: 'Escape from Singapore 1942 - an architect's memories of Malaya and Singapore 1941-42 including an escape from Singapore February 1942' (British Association of Malaya Addenda).
• Sir Albert Cecil Day, civil servant: misc records covering the years when Day was secretary to the governor of New Zealand 1911-35 (MSS 89)
• Margaret Joyce Field, writer and anthropologist: papers rel to a murder trial in the Supreme Court of the Gold Coast 1944 (MSS 448)
• Alexander Hepple (1904-83), South African politician: 'The South African Labour Party 1908-56' (Case A72) NB No reproduction without prior permission from Professor BA Hepple
• Guy Edward Wheeler (1921-95), writer: papers rel to schooldays in India c1920-30 (MSS 11c99w)
• Robert Henry Walker, archdeacon of Uganda: letters c1890-1906 (MSS 45)
• Sir Philip Crampton Smyly, Crown Advocate in Sierra Leone: corresp and papers rel to Sierra Leone 1895-1953 (MSS 446)

London University, School of Oriental and African Studies

• Medical Services Ministries (formerley Missionary School of Medicine) records 20th cent (MSM)
• Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewske (b1922), professor of linguistics: papers mostly rel to Somali and Oromo languages and literature
• James T Hardyman, missionary: papers
• Derek Alec Rawcliffe, bishop of Glasgow: papers rel to his time as bishop of New Hebrides c1960-75 (PP MS 61)

Trinity College Dublin

• Martha Amelia Bernard, mother of John Henry Bernard (archbishop of Dublin and provost of Trinity College Dublin): diary kept while in India 1862-63 (MS 10882)
• British Army 'Memorial to Irish Regiments' Committee: corresp and papers mainly rel to memorial in Westminster Cathedral 1917-21 (MS 10925)

Wellcome Institute, Contemporary Medical Archives Centre

• British Empire Cancer Campaign: records 1923-90 (SA/BEC)
• Dr Thomas Cecil Hunt (1901-80), gastroenterologist (addnl): papers rel to medical education in West Africa (GC/46)

Local Repositories in England and Scotland