Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Imperial History

Local

Derbyshire Record Office

• Clayton family of Peak Forest: military and colonial service memoirs, passports, photographs, correspondence and newspaper cuttings 1835-1958 (D8365)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

• Henry Watts Russell de Coëtlogon (1839-1890), commander of Khartoum garrison: papers 1858-1904 (Add MS 89463)

British Library: Asian and African Studies

• George Norton (1792-1877), Advocate General of Madras and president of Madras University: correspondence 1829-1857 (Mss Eur F753)

National Army Museum Templer Study Centre

• Native Refugee Department (O.R.C): hand compiled return covering all refugee/concentration camps (34). Rel to the Boer War (1899-1902) 1902 (2021-01-12)

University

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

• Earle Monteith Macphail (1861-1937), Principal of Madras Christian College: letters (10) to his family back in Scotland, sent during his time in Madras, as Professor of History and Economics at Madras Christian College 1891-1893 (Coll-91; SC-Acc-2021-0068)