Major accessions to repositories in 2022 relating to Imperial History

Local

Archives and Cornish Studies Service (formerly Cornwall Record Office)

• William John Princep Burton (d1940), teacher and educator: diary in Tasmania, Australia (1911-20) with photographs, postcards 'A Sketch of my Life' by Burton (1926-27); photograph as mayor of Bodmin, 1928; 'True Fishing Yarns or the Reminiscences of an old Angler' (1936-43); with newspaper cuttings 1795-1943 (AD3107)

Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre

• Sir John Boyd (1718-1800) 1st Baronet Boyd, sugar merchant, slave trader, and vice-chairman of the British East India Company: journal of accounts 1785-1793 (PEDAN)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

• Living History, community history project, Leicester: slides, photographs, exhibitions, archives, newspapers, printed books c1800-2022 (DE10335)
• Leicestershire Imperial Yeomanry: photographs of camps at home and in South Africa c1900-1905 (DE10299)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

• Fanny Lloyd (fl1898-1900), English missionary in China: letters to her nephew, Henry, written from the inland mission at Chung King, providing a first-hand account of the atmosphere and events of the early years of the Boxer Rebellion 1898-1900 (Add MS 89497)
• Lieutenant Colonel Hardin Burnley-Campbell (1843-1920), 6th Dragoon Guards; Major General Sir George Pomeroy Colley (1835-1881), army officer and colonial governor: letters, incl rel to service in India during the second Afghan Campaign, 1878-1881 1881 (Add MS 89536)
• Ledger of sugar estates owned by George Cunningham in Jamaica, dated 1843-1856 1843-1956 (Add MS 89654)

British Library: Asian and African Studies

• Woodburn Family: copy letter-books and original letters rel to various family members, but principally to David Woodburn (1805-1888), Bengal Medical Service, and his brother John Woodburn (1803-1841), army officer in India 1745-1884 (Mss Eur F758)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

• Alexander Low Bruce (1839-1893), colonial estate owner, Nysasaland, and son-in-law of David Livingstone, missionary and explorer: corresp mostly rel to his business interests in the African Lakes Corporation, and related companies, but incl some copy letters, 1859, of David Livingstone 1859-1892 (Acc.14404)

University

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

• Buchanan family of Craigend Castle, Milngavie: family and estate papers including correspondence, diaries, press cuttings, photographs, political, diplomatic and military papers c1910-2012 (Bu)