Rhodesia and Nyasaland
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Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of Dorothy Webb relating to Southern Rhodesia
Fonds — Box CLX-A-386
Identifier: Coll-2050
Content Description
Papers relating to the settling and occupation of lands and farms by British settlers in Southern Rhodesia from the 1890s to the 1960s, compiled and saved from destruction by Mr Webb when Robert Mugabe was destroying records in Zimbabwe.The first file is entitled "Lomagundi - S. S. Ranch Ext.", and has two bundles labelled "notices / gazettes" and "blank forms". The first bundle contains advertising pamphlets, gazettes, and paperwork relating to the purchase of land by settlers...
Dates:
1892-1962
Papers of Kenneth Mackenzie
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-64
Scope and Contents
Contains material relating to Central Africa, 1958-64, and to Rhodesia, 1965-70. There is material on South Africa particularly on apartheid, the Springbok tour, and arms for South Africa; Congo; race relations; colour and citizenship; the United Nations; the UK; and, Sweden and other countries. There are newspaper cuttings and also pamphlets, the latter on African independence, the Church, Sweden, the rule of law, politics, immigration, Rhodesia, South Africa, and international agencies. In...
Dates:
1958-1971
Parosse Natives in Dug-Outs on Zambesi, Rhodesia, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1019
Scope and Contents
Photograph of Parosse natives standing in dug-outs or canoes on the Zambesi River in Rhodesia in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Records of the Scottish Council for African Questions
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-269
Scope and Contents
The unsorted records of the Scottish Council for African Questions includes, in MS 2495, typescript and manuscript documents on Central Africa, copies of the "Newsletter. The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland", and newspapers and newspaper clippings. In MS 2496 there is a selection of journals, government reports, parliamentary debates, and colonial reports, for example Northern Rhodesia 1951, Nyasaland 1957, "Northern Rhodesia. Proposals for constitutional change. 1958", and "Report of...
Dates:
1950s-1970s
Tobacco Barn, South's Farm, S[outhern] Rhodesia, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2601
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a group of men standing in front of a tobacco barn on South's Farm in Southern Rhodesia in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Transport Wagon and Oxen in Rhodesia, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/612
Scope and Contents
Photograph of teams of oxen pulling a heavily loaded transport wagon through the plains of Rhodesia in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Typescript theses related to Malawi, Southern Rhodesia and South Africa, and Hausa manual
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-1944
Content Description
Three bound theses on subjects related to Malawi, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia, and one handbook to learn Hausa (a Chadic language spoken mostly in southern Niger and northern Nigeria).
Teaching Yourself Hausa, by A. H. M. Kirk-Greene and Charles H. Kraft, 1966 (uncorrected draft). Annotation: "Presented by the author to the General Linguistics Library, June...
Dates:
1966-1982
Waterbuck, Rhodesia, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3213
Scope and Contents
Photograph of three African men sitting next to a dead waterbuck in the bush in Rhodesia in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Young Rhodesians, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1152
Scope and Contents
Photograph of two Rhodesian children with their nanny in a doorway in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s