Colonial Research

Scope and Contents Series containing letters written to Charles Lyell, one from his father Charles Lyell (1767–1849) dated 1841 and three letters from other family members c.1839: To Charles and Mary, from Henry Lyell, near Sukkur [Pakistan] 15th February 1839 At Kinnordy, letter to Charles Lyell from his father Charles Lyell Senior, advising to take care of both his own, and Mary's health 'do not fancy...

Scope and Contents The material contains: copies of two Colonial Office reports titled: 'Colonial Research 1944-1945' and 'Inter-University Council for Higher Education in the Colonies: Second Report, 1947-1949'; typescript reports titled: 'A Case for a Colonial Biological Survey and Regional Biological Institutes: Note by E.B Worthington, March 1946' and Waddington's 'Operational Research in Peace'; ...

Scope and Contents Large indenture on vellum relating to legal transactions concerning slaves and estates in St Andrews, Grenada (West Indies), involving mainly but not exclusively Evan Baillie, John and Catherine Bagot, and Alexander Fraser. The first page is a schedule of the enslaved people present on the plantation in 1817, and the children born in the following years. The list gives their first name, their origin, their age, and any 'distinctive mark'. Content...

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...