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Rhodesia and Nyasaland

 Subject

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Postage stamps, 1965-1989

 File — Box CLX-A-28: Series Coll-490/A-G
Identifier: Coll-490/F
Scope and Contents 1. Sotheby's Catalogue: postage stamps of Nyasaland and Rhodesia. The Gerald Simpson Collection. 2-3 December 1982.2. Catalogue: Christie's - Robson Lowe. British Central Africa and Nyasaland Protectorate. 12 September 1989.3. Letter from Margaret Harris, Southampton, to Professor Shepperson, Edinburgh. She encloses a typescript "Remarks on New Issues" by Rev. H. S. Watson, a photocopy of an article - the story behind the stamps, "John Chilembwe and the...
Dates: 1965-1989
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File "A-G"

Press cuttings, 1926-1984

 File — Box CLX-A-18: Series Coll-490/10; Series Coll-490/11
Identifier: Coll-490/11/5
Scope and Contents Press Cuttings: 1926 - 1984. 1926 Bulawyo Chronicle: 'Baptism murder trial.' 1960 Guardian: 'Mr H. Nkumbula declines Chequers party'; Scotsman: 'Africans studied in prison'. 1961 Fighting Talk: 'Central African Federation crisis'; ...
Dates: 1926-1984
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 11: Malawi (contd.)

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Rhodesia, 1972-1975

 File — Box CLX-A-15: Series Coll-490/3; Series Coll-490/4; Series Coll-490/5
Identifier: Coll-490/5/RHO
Scope and Contents

Prospectus: Ranch House College.


Pamphlets: 'White Working Class Disunity'- the Southern Rhodesia Labour Party. M. C. Steele, 1970; Southern Rhodesia Place Names - 'Love and Legend'.


Newspaper cuttings: Racial discrimination - 1972; Victoria Falls talks 1975.

Dates: 1972-1975
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 5: University College of Rhodesia

Rolf Gardiner, c 1936-1968

 File — Box CLX-A-28: Series Coll-490/A-G
Identifier: Coll-490/E
Scope and Contents

File of Gardiner's publications on Africa (especially Nyasaland) made up by Rolf Gardiner for George Shepperson. Typescripts, copies, extracts: extracts taken from the bound volume of Nyasaland Reports, 1947-1954, 1955-1962, 1963-1970; articles taken from 'Published Articles and Letters', 1943-1949; extracts from articles, 1949-1957, and typecript report entitled "The Nchima Tea and Tung estates Limites - report of a visit by the Chairman. June 14 - June 28, 1968".

Dates: c 1936-1968
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File "A-G"

Survey of Missions, December 1940 (date of original)

 File — Box CLX-A-32: Series Coll-490/MAM
Identifier: Coll-490/SM
Scope and Contents

Copy of a document entitled "Historical Survey of Native Controlled Missions operating in Nyasaland", by the Nyasaland Police, December 1940.

Dates: December 1940 (date of original)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson

Title Deeds to Nyasaland, Summary of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council, Report of the Commission: The Native Rising, 1915-1916, 1963 (date of original: 1887)

 File — Box CLX-A-17: Series Coll-490/8; Series Coll-490/9
Identifier: Coll-490/9/1
Scope and Contents

Title Deeds to Nyasaland: Rev. Horace Waller, FRGS, 1887. Copies from the Bodleian Library, 1963.


Summary of the Proceedings of the Legislative Council of Nyasaland, 1915.


Report of the Commission: The Native Rising within the Nyasaland Protectorate, 1916.

Dates: 1915-1916; 1963 (date of original: 1887)
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and Correspondence of Professor George Albert Shepperson / File 9: Nyasaland and Nyasaland Protectorate

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections