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Rebellions

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Chilembwe letters, c 1965 (copies of material dated 1900-1915)

 File — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/14/4
Scope and Contents This file contains Chilembwe letters dating from 1900 to 1915 (copies). Letters in the Zomba Archives (9) (with covering letter, 17 March 1965). Writers: Chilembwe, Peters, Bismarck. Includes Minutes of the National Industrial Union Meetings, 15 June 1909 and 14 August 1909. Letters from British East Africa. Sent as 'News from the Field' to the National Baptist Foreign Mission Board of...
Dates: c 1965 (copies of material dated 1900-1915)

Commission Reports and related items, 1916; 1951

 File — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/14/3
Scope and Contents Report of the Commission appointed by HE the Governor to enquire into various matters and questions concerned with the Native Rising within the Nyasaland Protectorate. Accompanied by notes and reports. Information collected by F. M. Withers for an article but passed to Professor Shepperson who is writing a book on the history of the native rising. F. M. Withers no longer proposes to write the article....
Dates: 1916; 1951

Early Papers, 1882-1927

 File — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/14/2
Scope and Contents This file contains early material dating from c 1882 to 1927: Example of early African handwriting. 1882. Luganda version of the Portal-Mwanga Agreement of 1893. With translation and a covering letter. 8 December 1951 Extracts from a journal written by G. James to the Foreign Mission Band at the College at Cattle Creek, 1893. Printed. Foreign Office...
Dates: 1882-1927

File 15: Scripts, c 1969

 Series — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/15
Scope and Contents Scripts of books and plays about John Chilembwe and the 1915 Uprising. "A letter to John Chilembwe" by P. A. Cole-King. "Life of Chilembwe" (typescript of George Simeon Mwase's book, copied from his original manuscript). John Chilembwe by Lee Higdon (1969). "Strike a Blow and Die", by Michael Kittermaster (Play). Reconstruction of...
Dates: c 1969

John Chilembwe and the 1915 Rising, 20th century

 File — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/14/1
Scope and Contents

This file contains material on John Chilembwe and the 1915 Rising (information gathered by Shepperson): letters, interviews, accounts of individuals who knew Chilembwe, etc.

Dates: 20th century

John Chilembwe and the 1915 Rising. Miscellaneous and manuscripts, c 1896-1980

 File — Box CLX-A-20: Series Coll-490/14; Series Coll-490/15
Identifier: Coll-490/14/5
Scope and Contents
  1. 1915 Rising BBC Programme. Correspondence between G. Shepperosn and Michael Kittermaster, 1979-1980.
  2. Article ? Entitled "John Chilembwe – the Yao Native Messenger to the US".
  3. Newspaper Cuttings, 1959-1972.
  4. Photographs: John Chilembwe and others, c 1896-1910. K.A.R. 1915.
Dates: c 1896-1980

Manuscripts by Henry Guthry (1600-1676), Bishop of Dunkeld

 Fonds
Identifier: MS GUT 2
Scope and Contents Three notebooks relating to Henry Guthry, Bishop of Dunkeld (1600-1676)1. Observations upon the ryse [and] progress of the late rebellion against King Charles the first in so far as it was caryed on by a malecontented faction in Scotland under the pretext of the reformation. Quarto volume, 172 pages, in a loose secretary hand. 19th century binding, titled 'Bishop Guthrie's Historie, 1636-1649' on the spine. Signature of John Jaffray, Edin[burgh] 1849 on the front flyleaf....
Dates: 17th century