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Major accessions to repositories in 2018 relating to Imperial History |
Local
- Lambert Richard Loveday (1763-1843), Lieut-Gen, East India Company: probate will and codicil 1844 (1221)
- Francis de Rottenburg (1757-1832), Maj-Gen, military officer and colonial administrator, letter to Colonel Campbell in London incl family news, information on social life in Bath, and thanks and payment for a chest of tea 1823 (1259)
National
- Henry Bynner (1773-1867), British Vice-Consul: account and letter books for the consulate of Trieste 1818-1833 (Add MS 89331)
- Richard James Church (b1862), railway engineer, British East Africa and West Africa: diary extracts and letters, incl corresp with his wife, Christine 'Cissie' Master (b1877) and their children, and misc family papers c1896-1928 (Add MS 89338)
- William Hart Coleridge (1789-1849), Bishop of Barbados: papers incl corresp rel to the bishopric in Barbados 1820-1840 (Add MS 89334)
- Charles Ritchie Kinnear (fl 1837-1855), naval surgeon: log book while on board HMS Rodney during the Crimean War 1853-1855 (Add MS 89303)
- Sir Charles George Hillersden Allen (1864-1910), Knight, Indian Civil Service: diary and scrapbook rel to his career 1867-1910 (Mss Eur F721)
- Charles Alfred Barber (1860-1933), botanist and agriculturist, specialist on sugarcane: journals 1899-1918 (Mss Eur F724)
- Geoffrey Herbert Blake (1923-2017), Major, Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC): diaries (2) written while serving in India with the RIASC (Air Despatch) 1943-1947 (Mss Eur F717)
- Henry Buckle (1848-1916), Indian civil service, Burma: documents rel to service 1867-1910 (Mss Eur F721)
- Randolph Marriott (1736-1807), writer, East India Co Official: narrative of events in India, particularly Bengal, incl an account of the voyage in the ship Portfield 1753-1766 (Mss Eur F722)
- George Palmer (1772-1853), commander of East India Company ship Boddam, businessman and politician: journals of the EIC ship Boddam 1786-1800 (Mss Eur F723)
- Eva Pattullo (b1900), diarist: diary of a trip to India to visit her brother, Henry Carless (1894-1976), police officer in the Indian Civil Service 1936-1937 (Mss Eur F726)
- Sir Henry Edward ap Rhys Pryce (1874-1950), Knight, General, Royal Indian Army Service Corps, Master General of the Ordinance in India: notes for a talk on the British withdrawal from India and Indian Independence 1947 (Mss Eur F720)
- John Nettelfield (fl 1939-1944), Major: letters to his mother, incl transcriptions with explanatory detail, while working for Burmah-Shell in Mhow, India rel to the outbreak of war and later his experience of action 1939-1944 (Documents.27222)
- Bernard Edward Fergusson (1911-1980), Baron Ballantrae, Governor General of New Zealand: additional papers c1970-1980 (Acc. 13899)
Special
- Thomas Manning (1772-1840), traveller and botanist: copy of 'Description du Tibet' by Heinrich Julius Klaproth (1783-1835), linguist, philologist and orientalist, presented by the author 1831
- James Lawless (fl 1960-1970), doctor, Zambian Flying Doctors Service: patient registers, photographs and transparencies, corresp and administrative documents rel to the running of the ZDFS 1964-1969 (PP/LAW)
- Margaret Lawless (fl 1960-1970), doctor, Zambian Flying Doctors Service (ZFDS): handwritten journals and records incl patient registers, photographs and transparencies, corresp and administrative documents rel to the running of the ZDFS 1964-1969 (PP/LAW)
University
- Rhodesia-Nyasaland Royal Commission: report incl photographs taken by Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe (1867-1958), committee chairman, politician and colonial governor 1939 (DM2794)
- Edward Christopher Haselden (1903-1988), Sudan agent: corresp and photo albums 1945-1953 (SAD)
- Margaret Roberts (fl 1940-1949), of Durham: Sudan memoir and photographs c1940-1949 (SAD 1047)
- Michael Leslie Ogilvy Faber (1929-2015), developmental economist: corresp, photographs and papers rel to Northern Rhodesia/Zambia 1880-1991 (ICS198)
- Moses Mauane Kotane (1905-1978), South African politician and activist: letters to Hilda Saks (1914-1995), South African Communist party member, rel to Kimberley, British Bechuanaland and condemning British and Boer imperialism, as well as corresp from Moscow 1935-1936 (ICS197)
- Ceylon coffee plantation notebook 1847-1853 (ICS195)
- Arthur Hedgeland (b1876), colonial administrator: papers rel to his position as Private Secretary to Sir Henry McCullan, Governor of Natal incl corresp, photographs and personal papers c1895-1920 (MS 381329)
- Edmund Henderson Hunt (1874-1952), Chief Medical Officer, Hyderabad: glass negatives of Indian art, archaeological and anthropological interest 1930-1949 (MS 381339)
- Sir John Hubert Marshall (1876-1958), Knight, archaeologist: glass slides rel to India early 20th cent (MS 381337)
- Henry Lee Hadwen Shuttleworth (1882-1960), Orientalist: glass negatives rel to Ceylon, Ladkah, the Himalayas and Tibet (MS 381336)
- Edgar Thurston (1855-1935), museum superintendent, zoologist, anthropologist and botanist: photographic prints of architectural and ethnographic subjects and peoples in South India c1890-1914 (MS 381340)
- Albert Ernest Kitson (1868-1937), geologist and naturalist: glass slides rel to the Gold Coast and Southern Nigeria early 20th cent (MS 381335)
- James Edward Budgett Meakin (1866-1906), journalist: slides rel to Morocco and Tangiers late 19th cent (MS 381344)
- Sir John Bowring (1792-1872), Knight, MP, diplomat, colonial governor, author, traveller: letters to Sir John Bowring 1824-1876 (MS. 13086)
- Anthony John Ranstead Noel (b 1937), colonial officer: memoir of his childhood in London, National Service in the Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment and time as a district officer in Northern Rhodesia (1958-1965) 2018 (MS. 13880)
- Thomas Russell Park (1908-1986), accountant: papers rel to the Gold Coast 1939-1942 (MS. 13110)
- Album of photographs of Rhodesia apparently taken by HC Walker, not otherwise identified c1902-1904 (MS. 15005)
- Sir Albert James Macqueen Craig (1924-2007), Knight, diplomat: papers rel to education, diplomatic career and retirement c1934-2010 (0734)
- Allan Bruce Maclean (1858-1918), diplomat: corresp, papers and photographs rel to service as British Consul in Morocco c1895-1905 (0737)
- Additional oral history interviews for the project "Reflections on the Oman Insurgency 1965-1975 and its renaissance" 2014-2017
- Madeleine Slade (1892-1982), also known as Mirabehn, follower of Gandhi: letters from Gandhi and Nehru to Mirabehn 1930-1945 (SxMs193)
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