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Businesses (4)
- Granada Television Ltd
- John Foster Alleyne, Barbados sugar planter Barbados
- Nathaniel Phillips, sugar planter and merchant Kingston, Jamaica
- Sandbach, Tinne & Co, merchants Liverpool, Lancashire
Organisations (27)
- 1st British West Indies Regiment
- African National Congress South Africa
- African Peoples Organisation
- Australia-New Zealand Civil Liberties Society Australia;New Zealand
- Barbados Workers' Union Barbados
- Capricorn Africa Society
- Caribbean Council
- Castle Wemyss estate, Jamaica
- Ceylon Defence Force Ceylon
- Colonial Office (general)
- Commonwealth Journalists' Association
- Commonwealth Observer Group: Pakistan election Pakistan
- Commonwealth Press Union London
- Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation London
- Commonwealth Trade Union Council
- Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council
- Council for Education in the Commonwealth London
- Council for Technical Education and Training for Overseas Countries (TETOC)
- Foreign Correspondents Association of South Africa South Africa
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- International Transport Workers Federation
- Journal of African History
- Lancaster House Constitutional Conference on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
- Pearce Commission, Rhodesia Rhodesia
- Progressio
- West India Committee London
- West India Royal Commission
Persons (94)
- Abdurahman, Abdullah, (c1872-1940), President of African People's Organisation South Africa;Glasgow, Lanarkshire;Cape Town, Cape Province
- Alcock, Neil L, (1919-1983), South African farmer and activist
- Alnaes, Kirsten, (b1927), academic, author Norway;London
- Amery, Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett, (1873-1955), politician and journalist
- Anderson, Malcolm, (fl 1950-1969), colonial officer
- Bantock, J R Granville, (fl 1921-1936), police officer in Ceylon
- Bartlett, Ellis Ashmead, (1849-1902), Knight, MP
- Bartlett, Ellis Ashmead, (1881-1931), MP and war correspondent
- Basner, Hyman, (1905-1976), political activist in South Africa
- Benson, Mary, (1919-2000), civil rights campaigner and author
- Bethlehem, Ronald William, (1935-1997), economist Johannesburg, Transvaal
- Biko, Stephen Bantu, (1946-1977), anti-apartheid activist South Africa
- Bruce, James, (1756-1808), lieutenant governor of Dominica
- Carrington, Charles Edmund, (1897-1990), historian and biographer
- Clifford, Sir Hugh Charles, (1866-1941), Knight, Colonial Governor Ceylon;Gold Coast;Malaya;Nigeria;Trinidad;Roehampton, Surrey
- Cohen, Sir Andrew Benjamin, (1909-1968), Knight, colonial administrator
- Cope, John Patrick, (b 1906), Journalist
- Crowder, Michael, (1934-1988), African Historian
- Curtis, Lionel George, (1872-1955), colonial historian
- Davis, Peter, (fl 1981-2000), film-maker and founder of Villon Films
- Dyson, Edward Trevor, (1886-1969), civil servant in Ceylon
- Eustace, Rowland, (1924-1988), university administrator Nairobi, Kenya;London
- Ewart, Sir John Spencer, (1861-1930), Knight, General
- Faber, Michael Leslie Ogilvy, (1929-2015), developmental economist
- Ferguson, Alastair Mackenzie, (1816-1892), newspaper proprietor and editor in Ceylon
- Ferguson, John, (1842-1913), newspaper proprietor, editor and politician in Ceylon
- First, Ruth, (1925-1982), South African Political Activist
- Friedmann, Marion Valerie, (b 1918), political activist in South Africa
- Gallagher, John, (fl 1984-1991), teacher in Lesotho
- Godfrey, Stephen Norman, (b 1889), Assistant Director of Education, Ceylon Ceylon
- Goniwe, Matthew, (1947-1985), teacher and political activist in South Africa
- Gordon, Shirley Courtney, (1920-2006), Professor of Education
- Grierson, John, (1898-1972), documentary film producer
- Guinness, Walter Edward, (1880-1944), 1st Baron Moyne, politician
- Hall, Richard Seymour, (1925-1997), journalist
- Halpern, Jack, (1927-1973), Journalist
- Hancock, Sir William Keith, (1898-1988), Knight Historian
- Hart, Richard, (b 1917), Jamaican Trade Unionist
- Hawarden, Eleanor, (fl1941-1966), writer
- Hayman, Ruth, (d 1981), civil rights lawyer
- Hewitt, Arthur Reginald, (b 1907), librarian
- Hirson, Baruch, (1921-1999), South African revolutionary and historian
- Hjul, Peter, (fl 1954-1968), South African political activist
- Horsfall, John Campbell, (fl 1955-1974), author
- Horvitch, I O, (fl 1957-1961), South African political activist
- Ingram, Derek, (b1925), journalist and author
- Jacobs, B L, (b 1918), author, colonial officer
- James, Cyril Lionel Robert, (1901-1989), activist, writer and historian Trinidad;Brixton, Surrey
- Jebb, Richard, (1874-1953), author and traveller
- Jennings, Sir William Ivor, (1903-1965), Knight Professor of Law
- Kotane, Moses Mauane, (1905-1978), South African politician and activist
- Langlands, Bryan Wooleston, (1928-1989), Professor of Geography
- Lee, John Michael, (b 1932), Sociologist and Historian
- Legum, Colin, (1919-2003), author and lecturer
- Lewin, Julius, (fl 1941-1955), lecturer in native law, South Africa
- Lloyd, Edward Mayow Hastings, (1889-1968), economist and politician
- Manley, Michael Norman, (1924-1997), Prime Minister of Jamaica
- Matthews, Tim, (fl 1968-1975), political activist in Rhodesia
- Matthews, Zachariah Keodirelang, (1901-1968), South African politician
- McAdam, Anthony L P, (fl 1964-1979), political scientist
- McKerrell, David, (fl 1914-1944), trade unionist
- Milner, Alfred, (1854-1925), 1st Viscount Milner, statesman
- Mitchell, Fanny Oakley, (d1885), wife of colonial administrator Natal
- Moneypenny, R M G, (fl 1958), Ceylon civil servant
- Moorcroft, Errol Knott, (b1940), South African politician
- Moreton, Sir John, (1917-2012), Knight, diplomat
- Morris-Jones, Wyndraeth Humphreys, (b 1918), political scientist
- Mpama, Josie, (1903-1979), anti-apartheid activist South Africa
- Mutasa, Didymus Noel Edwin, (b 1935), Zimbabwean politician
- Mutesa II, Sir Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula, (1924-1969), Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda, first President of Uganda Uganda
- Mytton, Graham, (fl 1966-2001), journalist
- O'Kelly, Elizabeth, (1915-2012), colonial officer Borneo
- Persaud, Harold Rabindranauth, (1922-1992), archivist, civil servant
- Ranger, Terence Osborn, (1929-2015), Professor of Race Relations, historian
- Reynardson, Henry T Birch, (1892-1972), Lieutenant Colonel
- Roberts, Michael W, (fl 1965-2001), historian
- Robinson, Kenneth Ernest, (1914-2005), Lecturer and writer on Commonwealth affairs
- Roux, Edward Rudolph, (1903-1966), botanist and political activist Johannesburg, Transvaal
- Sachs, Albert Louis, (b 1935), South African Lawyer
- Saffery, Ambrose Lynn, (fl 1940), Race Relations Expert
- Sandys, Melvill Keverne Trelawny, (b 1890), civil servant in Ceylon
- Sheppard, Norah, (1901-1993), civil servant
- Smuts, Jan Christiaan, (1870-1950), statesman
- Stace, Walter Terence, (1886-1967), colonial civil servant , philosopher
- Stock, Amy Geraldine, (1902-1988), writer, academic and member of the British Labour Movement
- Strachan, William Arthur Watkin, (1921-1998), air force officer, legal administrator, political activist Kingston, Jamaica
- Tallents, Sir Stephen George, (1884-1958), Knight Civil Servant
- Taylor, Simon, (1740-1813), Jamaican Sugar Planter
- Tinker, Hugh Russell, (1921-2000), historian
- Tupper, Sir Charles, (1821-1915), Knight Canadian Statesman
- Wallace, J G, (fl 1928-1959), civil servant, Nigeria
- Ware, Sir Fabian Arthur Goulstone, (1869-1949), Knight, editor, and War Graves Commissioner
- Watson-Taylor, George, (c 1770-1841), MP
- Wilson, Sir Henry Francis Harry, (1859-1937), Knight, Orange River colonial secretary
Diaries (11)
- Burgess, Leonard T, (fl1932), member of Irrigation Department, Ceylon Ceylon
- Caygill, Marjorie, (fl1970-1998), museum curator London
- Gready, Leslie, (fl 1965-1973), anglican clergyman Rhodesia
- Kennedy, Joe, (fl 1966-1969), commentator on Rhodesian affairs
- Krut, Riva, (fl 1958-2014), historian
- Leeman, Bernard, (fl 1970-2004), academic and activist
- Millner, Ralph, (fl1934-1969), lawyer, political activist Kenya;Gold Coast;Cameroon;Zanzibar
- Qhobela, Maselebalo L G, (fl 1992) Lesotho
- Ricou, J P, (fl 1872), travel diarist London
- Roberts, T W, (b 1880), civil servant in Ceylon Ceylon
- Scott, D N, (fl 1979-1980), resident of Rhodesia Rhodesia
Families (2)
- Joseph Family of Johannesburg, South Africa, anti-apartheid activists Johannesburg, Transvaal
- Taylor family of Jamaica Jamaica
Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (23)
- NRA 30002 Abdullah Abdurahman, South African politician: corresp and papers rel to African People's Organizat
- NRA 23125 African National Congress
- NRA 28846 Mary Benson, South African civil rights campaigner: papers
- NRA 44532 Castle Wemyss estate, Jamaica: estate papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 25249 John Patrick Cope, South African journalist: corresp and papers
- NRA 43030 Michael Crowder, historian: corresp and papers
- NRA 44533 Ruth First, journalist and political activist: personal papers and associated collections
- NRA 23615 Jack Halpern, South African journalist: corresp and papers
- NRA 21997 Sir (William) Keith Hancock, historian: JC Smuts and Buganda papers
- NRA 22776 Richard Hart, Jamaican trade unionist: papers
- NRA 21998 CLR James, West Indian politician: corresp and papers
- NRA 18529 Richard Jebb papers
- NRA 30413 Sir William Ivor Jennings, professor of law: corresp and papers
- NRA 20276 Edward Mayow Hastings Lloyd, civil servant: misc papers
- NRA 28847 London University: Institute of Commonwealth Studies: misc accessions
- NRA 18538 London University: Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- NRA 30003 Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, South African politician: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 20613 Albert Louis Sachs, South African lawyer: corresp and papers
- NRA 27829 Sandbach Tinne & Co, merchants, Liverpool
- NRA 23192 South African Congress of Democrats
- NRA 21999 Sir Stephen George Tallents: Empire Marketing Board papers
- NRA 43056 Hugh Russell Tinker, historian: corresp and papers link to online catalogue
- NRA 24690 Alfred Bitini Xuma, African nationalist: corresp and papers
Accessions
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