Lesotho

Scope and Contents Agreements, circulars and other material, including: copy in Booth’s hand of his father John Booth’s account (of 1870) of his early life; copies of an article by Joseph Booth ‘The Greatest Will in the World - A Plea for Missionary Enterprise’ setting out his aims for the missions in Africa (c 1891); copy in Booth’s hand of a petition to the Bechuanaland Deputy Commissioner (1890) by Lobengula; circulars from the Zambesi Industrial Mission (1893-1895); editions of the ...

Scope and Contents This fonds consists of: Letters from Joseph Booth, Annie Booth, Lillian Booth, and Emily Booth Langworthy to Mary ("Babs") Booth (later Sales). The letters describe the Booths’ deportation from Basutholand, their struggle to find work in England during the war, and Booth’s illness during the 1920s. The final letters in the group are addressed to "Dot" (Emily). 2 files, 1914-1927. ...

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Copies of material in the Public Record Office regarding Booth in Basutholand, the material is similar to that in the Lesotho archives. Correspondence about items in the PRO is in Shepperson’s correspondence.

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Correspondence about and copies of material relating to Booth in the Lesotho government archives, the material on Booth refers to his activities in then Basutholand, his previous activities in Nyasaland, his potential connection to the Chilembwe rising and his expulsion from Southern Africa.

Scope and Contents This collection comprises the papers of Colin Legum, an Anti-Apartheid activist and political exile, and later newpaper political correspondent. It includes correspondence files, committee minutes, freelance articles, files in legal document wallets labelled alphabetically, office filing, published periodicals, journals, research files, press cuttings, notes, publications, and newspapers relating to the post-colonial history of many countries mostly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and...