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Field notes and notebooks

MS. 6371/42

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Title

Field notes and notebooks

Shelfmark

MS. 6371/42

Summary

Comprises:

Notebook labelled "1918 + PWQ [Poor White Question]" containing notes on South Africa, particularly bijwoners and poverty among white South Africans. 1918

Notebook labelled "1920 + stray notes" containing notes on 1920 travels from Mozambique to Tanganyika [Tanzania], Zanzibar, Yemen, Egypt, and Europe, notes on British politics, particularly the Labour Party, and notes on South Africa, particularly agriculture and land policy. 1920-1924

Notebook containing index entries and notes on Herschel, South Africa. 1926

Notebook containing notes, mostly on agriculture and land policy in South Africa, Bechunaland [Botswana], Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], Tanganyika [Tanzania], Kenya, Uganda, Swaziland [Eswatini]. 1927-1930

Notebook labelled "I. W.A. 1933" containing notes on West Africa, including Gold Coast [Ghana], Sierra Leone and Nigeria. 1933

Notebook labelled "II. 1933 cont." containing notes on Nigeria. 1933

Notebook labelled "III 33+" containing notes on West Africa, including Nigeria, Gold Coast and British Togoland [Ghana]. 1933

Notebook labelled "USA & BWI. I" containing notes on the USA, particularly regarding race relations, and on Jamaica. Also includes crossed out notes on West Africa, including Nigeria, Kenya and Gold Coast [Ghana]. 1934

Notebook labelled "BWI. II" containing notes on the West Indies, including Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, St. Vincent, Barbados and St. Kitts. Undated [c. 1934]

Notebook labelled "Sierra Leone 22 Oct-12 Nov '38" containing notes, mostly on Sierra Leone. Also includes notes from a Social Sciences Congress at Westfield College. 1936-1938

Notebook labelled "Gold Coast 15 Nov '38" containing notes on Gold Coast [Ghana]. Also includes photograph of unidentified man and woman. 1938

Notebook labelled "'49" containing notes on Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika [Tanzania], Zanzibar, Mozambique, South Africa. 1949

Notebook labelled "Notes on TT 1950" containing notes on Kenya, Tanganyika [Tanzania] and Mozambique. 1950

Notebook containing notes on Bechuanaland [Botswana], particularly Tshekedi and Seretse Khama, and notes on Kenya, Nyasaland [Malawi], Northern Rhodesia [Zambia] and Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]. 1951-1952

Notebook labelled "'55" containing notes on the West Indies, including Jamaica, St. Kitts, Anguilla, Antigua, Montserrat, St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent, Grenada and Trinidad. 1955

Notebook containing notes on South Africa, including the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs [SABRA], and on Bechuanaland [Botswana], Northern Rhodesia [Zambia], Nyasaland [Malawi], Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] and Kenya. 1958-1959

Date

1918-1958

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box

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Collection contents

Archive of W.M. Macmillan and Mona Macmillan

Papers of W.M. Macmillan

Africa general and West Indies

Field notes and notebooks

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