GB 0102 MS 380478 - Fage, Professor John D

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GB 0102 MS 380478 [1940s] Collection (fonds) 1 box Fage , John Donnelly , b 1921 , Professor of African history
Born, 1921; educated at Tonbridge School; attended Magdalene College, Cambridge (Scholar, MA, PhD); Bye-Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1947-1949; Lecturer and Senior Lecturer, University College of the Gold Coast, 1949-1955; Professor of History, 1955-1959; Deputy Principal, 1957-1959; Lecturer in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1959-1963; Professor of African History, University of Birmingham, 1963-1984; Director, Centre of West African Studies, 1963-1982; Deputy Dean, Faculty of Arts, 1973-1975; Dean, 1975-1978; Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1979-1984; Vice-Principal 1981-1984; Emeritus Professor of History; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society; Honorary Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies. Publications include: 'The achievement of self-government in southern Rhodesia, 1898-1923' (PhD thesis, 1949); An atlas of African history (1958); with Roland Oliver, A short history of Africa (1962); edited Africa discovers her past (1970); edited, with Roland Oliver, Papers on African Prehistory (1970); A history of Africa (1978); edited The Cambridge history of Africa, vol 2 (1978); Black Africa in time-perspective: four talks on wide historical themes, ed P E H Hair (1990); and other publications relating to West Africa and African history. With Roland Oliver, edited the Journal of African History, 1960-1973, and joint general editor of The Cambridge History of Africa (8 vols, 1975-1986).

Donated in 1988.

Research papers [1940s] of John Fage on the development of Southern Rhodesia (presumably for his PhD), largely covering the period from the 1890s to the 1930s, comprising notes, largely manuscript but including some typescripts, of primary and secondary sources including official sources, among them British parliamentary papers, Colonial Office correspondence, records of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Southern Rhodesia and its High Court, also including a bibliography. The subjects include pre-history, geography and geology, colonial administration, the British South Africa Company, economics, indigenous affairs, labour, and land tenure.

Arranged in four files.

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.
English

Database.

The School of Oriental and African Studies also holds an undated two-page typescript by J D Fage, 'An Historian's (or Archaeologist's) Brief Guide to Lexicostatistics (or Glottochronology)', among the papers of Malcolm Guthrie (Ref: PP MS 27 Box 27).

Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Sources: Who's Who; British Library OPAC. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Jul 2002 Administration of justice African history Agricultural economics Bibliographies British South Africa Company Colonial administration Colonial countries Colonial Office Colonization Courts Economics Enterprises Fage , John Donnelly , b 1921 , Professor of African history Geography Geology Government Government policy Historical periods History Interethnic relations Internal politics Labour Land economics Land tenure National history Parliament Political institutions Political systems Prehistory Private enterprises Public administration Secondary documents Southern Africa Southern Rhodesia Southern Rhodesia , Executive Council Southern Rhodesia , High Court Southern Rhodesia , Legislative Council Zimbabwe

Donated in 1988.

Research papers [1940s] of John Fage on the development of Southern Rhodesia (presumably for his PhD), largely covering the period from the 1890s to the 1930s, comprising notes, largely manuscript but including some typescripts, of primary and secondary sources including official sources, among them British parliamentary papers, Colonial Office correspondence, records of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Southern Rhodesia and its High Court, also including a bibliography. The subjects include pre-history, geography and geology, colonial administration, the British South Africa Company, economics, indigenous affairs, labour, and land tenure.

Arranged in four files.

Unrestricted.

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

• English

• Latin

English

The School of Oriental and African Studies also holds an undated two-page typescript by J D Fage, 'An Historian's (or Archaeologist's) Brief Guide to Lexicostatistics (or Glottochronology)', among the papers of Malcolm Guthrie (Ref: PP MS 27 Box 27).

Database.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

• English