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Zimbabwe: Political Parties Material, 1928 onwards, including manifestos, addresses, speeches, letters, conference reports, constitutions, pamphlets, leaflets, posters, newsletters, journals, press cuttings, histories, membership cards and miscellaneous electoral and promotional materials issued by the African National Council, the African National Council (Sithole), the African Progressive Party, the Centre Party (Southern Rhodesia), the Dominion Party (Rhodesia), the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe, the Independent Zimbabwe Group, the National Democratic Party of Southern Rhodesia, the National Front of Zimbabwe, the National Unifying Force (Southern Rhodesia), the Patriotic Front (Zimbabwe), the Rhodesian Action Party, the Rhodesia Labour Party, the Rhodesia Party, the Rhodesia Settlement Forum, the Rhodesian Front, the Southern Rhodesia Labour Party, the Southern Rhodesian African National Congress, the United African National Council, the United Conservative Party, the United National Federal Party, the Zimbabwe African National Union, ZANU-PF, the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union, the Zimbabwe Democratic Party, the Zimbabwe National Party, the Zimbabwe National People's Union, the Zimbabwe People's Army, the Zimbabwe Reformed African National Congress and the Zimbabwe United People's Organization. Any material produced by a political party originating from the geographical area that later became Zimbabwe has been placed in this collection, including parties from Southern Rhodesia prior to and during Federation and from 'Rhodesia' during UDI. Federal parties can be found under Rhodesia and Nyasaland: Political Parties (PP.RH)

Material produced by the West Indian Federal Labour Party and the West Indies Group of University Teachers, 1958-1962, 1967. Most of these items date from the West Indies Federation period.

Papers of Sir Stephen Tallents, mainly relating to to his role as Secretary of the Empire Marketing Board (EMB), including files on its origins, activities (including the 1931 'Buy British' campaign, the EMB film unit, and liaison with the Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Melbourne, Australia), administration and break-up. These files include reports, correspondence, notes and memoranda. There are also files containing EMB publications and press cuttings. Most of the material not directly related to EMB business consists of papers related to draft works by Tallents, particularly his book on the EMB, Empire Experiment; these files include original papers from the EMB period, 1926-1933, and draft chapters, notes and correspondence (mainly 1940s). There are also files containing papers (mainly reviews) relating to Tallents' pamphlet The Projection of England (1932) and to his period as Public Relations Officer at the Post Office, 1934-1936. There is some further material (correspondence, press cuttings, publications) on the documentary film producer John Grierson, 1933-1947. There is also a file of correspondence, 1951-1952, with Leopold Amery regarding the latter's chapter on EMB in his autobiography, My Political Life (London 1953).

Constitutions, manifestos, reports, pamphlets, leaflets and membership cards, 1961-1973, issued by the Democratic Party of Swaziland, the Imbokodvo National Movement, the Ngwane National Liberatory Congress and the Swaziland Progressive Party. The materials here deal with the constitutional processes leading to independence as well as the brief period of electoral politics before the constitution was abolished in 1973.

Extract from autobiography of William Terence Stace, covering his work as a civil servant in Ceylon, 1910-1932, particularly as a cadet in Galle, a police magistrate, private secretary to the Governor (Sir Robert Chalmers), district judge at Negombo, and an official (ultimately, the head) of the Land Settlement Department. With letter from H E Newman to T E Smith, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, commenting on Stace's work.

Singapore political material, from 1961 onwards, including posters, pamphlets, leaflets, newsletters, speeches, commemorative programmes, letters, reports, conference reports, manifestos, constitutions and aother miscellaneous election materials issued by the Barisan Sosialis, independent candidates, the National Solidarity Party (Singapore), the People's Action Party (Singapore), the People's Association Youth Movement (Singapore), the Singapore Chinese Party, the Singapore Malay National Organisation, the United Front (Singapore), the United National Front (Singapore) and the Workers' Party (Singapore).

Copies of letters and press cutting written by D N Scott to Lord Carrington and Lord Soames, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, concerning Scott's booklet, 'Rho-Plan 60, or, Guarantees that will work for the whites of Rhodesia' on safeguards for white and other minorities in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. With covering letter to the Librarian, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Nov 1979-Mar 1980.

Sarawak political material, 1962-[1970] produced by the following groups: Barisan Pemuda Sarawak, Sarawak Government, Parti Bumiputera Sarawak, Party Pesaka Sarawak, Sarawak Alliance Party, Sarawak Chinese Association, Sarawak National Party, and Sarawak United People's Party.

Manuscript diaries of Melvill Keverne Trelawny Sandys as Assistant Government Agent in Mullaittivu (1922-1923) and Mannar, (1931-1933), Ceylon; subjects include visits to villages, court cases, land sales, settlement of disputes, public health, inspection of salvage operations after cyclone and tidal wave.

Speeches, constitutions, reports, manifestos, speeches, statements, letters and newsletters issued by the Commercial, Technical and Allied Workers' Union (Saint Vincent), the Labour Party (Saint Vincent), the Movement for National Unity, the National Progressive Workers' Union (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), the New Democratic Party (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), the People's Political Party of Saint Vincent, the Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Human Rights Association, the St. Vincent Junior Chamber and the Youlou United Liberation Movement. They are concerned amongst other things with the problems of economic development in the islands, with the position of the country in the Caribbean as a whole and of course with the transition to independence. There are also materials issued by trades unions as well as by human rights and business groups.

Manifestos, platforms, press releases, papers and miscellaneous election material from 1975 onwards issued by the Nevis Reformation Party, the People's Action Movement (Saint Kitts and Nevis), the People's Progressive Party (Anguilla), the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party and the St. Kitts-Nevis Trades and Labour Union. The materials here date from the period around the split with Anguilla and the subsequent move to independence and are concerned both with these issues and with the desire of Nevis for more local autonomy.

Papers relating to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) (RIIA) Commonwealth Conference in Lagos, Nigeria, 1962, comprising correspondence between Professor Charles Edmund Carrington, RIIA and Prof Kenneth Robinson, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, draft papers on African politics, aid and trade, draft reports on the cold war in Africa, pan-africanism, Britain's application to join the European Common Market, and the future of Commonwealth co-operation in Africa

Transcripts of interviews with various individuals, and questionnaires, on colonial administration in Ceylon, from research by Michael W Roberts; interviewees include Sir Hilary Blood, R N Bond, Edward Trevor Dyson, G H Ferguson, Sir Franklin Gimson, F Leach, R B Naish, T W Roberts, Walter Terence Stace, F G Stevens, A N Strong, C E Tilney, W N Williams and Leonard Woolf.

Papers delivered to the Southern Rhodesia Constitutional Conference, Lancaster House, London 1979, comprising summary of independence constitution; British Government proposals for the ceasefire arrangements; statement by Lord Carrington, British Foreign Secretary; Patriotic Front proposals on basic principles for a ceasefire and the British Government's full presentation on the ceasefire.

Transcript of interview by Ian Hancock of Miles Anthony Pedder relating to the United Rhodesia Party (URP) and the Central Africa Party (CAP), 1953-1964; including details of his work as Honorary Secretary of the URP, the organisation of the party, establishment of Branches in Coloured, Asian and African areas from 1955; the reformation of the African National Congress (ANC), 1957; his impressions of Garfield Todd as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, 1953-1958; the election of Edgar Whitehead as Prime Minister, 1958; the role of the Central African Party in the Southen Rhodesia Constitutional Conference, and the subsequent referendum on the Constitution, 1960-1961; the victory of the Rhodesia Front Party, 1962, the break-up of the Federation and the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, 1963-1964.

Material produced by political groups in Niue, 1984, comprising letter, 3 May 1984 from T.L. Sioneholo, Legal/Political Division of the Government, explaining campaign proceedings and poster for 1984 general election.

Copies of documents from the Nigerian Government, concerning Oba of Benin, 1926-1946, including correspondence with the Governor on the revision of the Benin-Warri boundary, 1926; correspondence and papers on links between Eweka II, Oba of Benin and Fio Agbano II, King of Glidji, Togo, 1934; correspondence on request from the Oba for the use of armed Nigerian police during burial ceremony for his mother, 1935; correspondence and papers on alleged libel of Akenzua II, Oba of Benin by H O Davies in article 'My Impressions on Nigeria' in the Daily Service, 1940; correspondence on award of CMG to Akenzua II, 1946.

Photocopy of a pamphlet produced by the Windward Islands People's Movement, 'Program W.I.P.M.: session 1977/1981'.

Poetry, letters, bulletins, congress proceedings, constitutions, statements, pamphlets, interviews, speeches and newsletters, from 1962, issued by FRELIMO, Frente da Libertação de Moçambique, the Mozambique People's Conventional Movement and Uniao Nacional Africana de Rumbezia.

Programs, platforms, manifestos and histories from 1963 issued by Groupe "Progrès et liberté", Independent Forward Bloc (Mauritius), Mouvement militant mauricien, Mouvement socialiste mauricien, MSM/travailliste, Parti de l'independance (Mauritius), Parti LALIT, Parti mauricien social democrat, Parti socialiste mauricien, Parti travailliste (Mauritius). The materials reflect the activities of the three main political parties. Other parties represented include the Parti mauricien social democrat (PMSD), generally seen as the party of the Franco-Mauritians and Creoles, as well as the Parti LALIT, of which the collection holds a number of pamphlets concerned with health issues.

Newspapers, journals, pamphlets, speeches, press releases, policy declarations, reports, press excerpts and other miscellaneous materials, from 1955 onwards, issued by the Christian Workers Party (Malta), the Democratic Christian Party (Malta), the Democratic Nationalist Party (Malta), the General Workers' Union of Malta, the Malta Labour Party, the Maltese Labour Movement (U.K.), the Nationalist Party (Malta), and the Progressive Constitutional Party (Malta).

Papers of Colin Legum on Cyprus, Aden, Malta, and Commonwealth matters, 1950-1977, including papers on Cyprus, 1952-1966, including copies of official papers, 1957-1959, unofficial publications, statements by George Rossides to the United Nations on the Cyprus Issue, Jan-Feb 1957, unpublished material on Colonel George Grivas, 1957-1958, unpublished material on allegations of brutality by British forces in Cyprus, 1957, papers on the Dhekelia Cantonment; correspondence; Observer Foreign News Service reprints of articles by Arnold Toynbee, Herman Goult, Andrew Wilson, Robert Stephens and Kenneth Mackenzie on Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, 1958-1966, and press notices, 1955-1964. Papers on Aden, 1962-1966, including copies of official papers, press releases and publications, letters to The Observer on the situation in Aden, 1963-1965, Observer Foreign News Service reprints of articles by Legum, Gavin Young, Andrew Wilson and Ibrahim Noori on Aden and Yemen, 1964-1965, transcripts of radio broadcasts on BBC World Service, Cairo Radio and San'a Home Service on Aden and Yemen, 1965, journal articles and newspaper cuttings, 1964-1966. Papers on Malta, 1956-1959 including correspondence, press cuttings and draft articles by Legum including on the referendum campaign, 1956. Academic papers given at the Bertrand Russell Centenary Symposium, 'Spheres of Influence in the Age of Imperialism', held in Austria, 1972. Publications and pamphlets on the Commonwealth, 1954-1971. Papers relating to Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings, 1973, 1975 and 1977 including transcripts of speeches by heads of governments, press cuttings and publications including 'Report of the Commonwealth Secretary General', (1977) and 'Commonwealth Today' (Commonwealth Secretariat, 1977).

Memorandum by Prof Bryan W Langlands of his experiences while at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1974-1975 including account of the arrest and trial of Denis Cecil Hills for treason, also other incidents relating to President Idi Amin and the British community in Uganda, and on University politics at Makerere.

Correspondence and papers of Richard Jebb, 1885-1953, principally comprising correspondence 1884-1953 (correspondents include Leopold Stennett Amery, Lionel Curtis, Lord Grey, Sir Edward Grigg (later Lord Altrincham), W. Mackenzie King, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Alfred, Lord Milner, Sir Charles Tupper, and Sir Fabian Ware); also notebooks, journals of tours of colonies in 1898-1900 and 1905-1906, and diaries; photograph albums, mostly relating to tours of colonies; printed articles by Richard Jebb; drafts of Studies in Colonial Nationalism and a third volume of The Imperial Conference; carbon copies of Jebb's speeches and articles; reviews of publications; press cuttings from Morning Post leaders and articles and press cuttings from other newspapers including articles by Jebb and scrap book of cuttings on the Imperial conference, 1907; materials relating to the East Marylebone election, 1910; accounts and bound proceedings of colonial conferences, 1887, 1894, 1897 and 1902.

Papers of Cyril Lionel Robert (CLR) James on Caribbean politics, 1940-1965; comprising papers on West Indian Federation, 1958-1962; West Indian Federal Labour Party (WIFLP) correspondence, 1958-1961, including correspondence with Norman W Manley, on Federation, politics in Trinidad and Jamaica, illegal voting at Jamaican elections, and James's resignation as Secretary of WFILP; papers on the University of the West Indies, 1962-1963; papers on political parties and trade unions in Barbados, 1940-1964; papers on politics in British Guiana, 1958-1963; papers on politics in Grenada, 1957; papers on politics in Jamaica, 1952-1963; papers on the People's National Movement, Trinidad, 1957-1962, including correspondence on James's appearance before the Disciplinary Committee, 1961; papers on the West Indian Independence Party, Trinidad, 1955-1956; papers on Sugar workers in Trinidad, 1963-1964; papers on Oil workers in Trinidad, 1954-1960; papers on West Indian organisations in Britain, 1963 (Union of West Indian Students, West Indian Editorial Committee, West Indies Committee for National Sovereignty, West Indies Committee for Peace and Sovereignty); lectures and essays by various authors; papers on arts and literature in the West Indies, 1957-1963; personal correspondence, 1959-1960; copies of publications by James.

Material issued by the following groups: Anti-Apartheid Movement; Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Movement; Africa Bureau; Action for Southern Africa; Alf's Imperial Army; Africa Publications Trust; Anti-Slavery International; Association of West European Parliamentarians for Action Against Apartheid; Africa Youth Movement; Catholic Institute for International Relations; Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers; Empire Industries Association; International Association of Democratic Lawyers; Justice and Peace Commission; Monday Club; Movement for Colonial Freedom; Movement for Religious Freedom in Africa; Pan-Africa; Southern African Development Coordination Conference; Union of Democratic Control; World Summit on Sustainable Development; Women's World Summit Foundation.

Manifestos, leaflets, programmes and miscellaneous election materials issued by the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood, the Liberal Party (Hong Kong) and the United Democrats of Hong Kong.

Transcript of Granada Television 'World in Action' programme on the break up of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, including interviews with Joshua Nkomo and Sir Roy Welensky.

Manifestos, speeches, posters, constitutions, leaflets, newspapers, convention reports and miscellaneous election materials issued by the Action Congress Party (Ghana), the Convention People's Party (Ghana), the Ghana Congress Party, the National Alliance of Liberals (Ghana), the National Conciliation Party (Ghana), the National Liberation Movement (Ghana), the New Patriotic Party (Ghana), the Northern People's Party (Ghana), the People's Democratic Party of Ghana, the People's National Party (Ghana), the People's Vanguard (Ghana), the Popular Front Party (Ghana), the Progress Party (Ghana), the Third Force Party (Ghana), the United Gold Coast Convention, the United National Convention (Ghana), the United Party (Ghana) and the United Revolutionary Front (Ghana).

Constitutions, platforms and country guides issued by the Desire the Right Party (Falkland Islands) and the Falkland Islands Office.

Material relating to pressure goups in the Caribbean area including statements and leaflets issued by the Caribbean Conference of Churches and the Caribbean Youth Conference.

Correspondence and papers of the Capricorn Africa Society (CAS), 1955-1966: comprising publications, including copies of society pamphlets and leaflets, 1955-1959; duplicated material including report from Nyasaland [c 1956]; notes of a talk with Dr Albert Schweitzer, 20 Sep [? 1956]; note on the activities of the College of Rhodesian Citizenship, 1959-1960; biographical notes on Ugandan Ministers [c 1956]; progress report to members in the United Kingdom, 1958; programme of the Central African Branch, 1959; letters from U S Information Service, Salisbury, Rhodesia on events in Rhodesia, and the activities of Rhodesian students in the USA, 1958-1960; report on tour of Southern Rhodesia by officials of the CAS Central African Branch, 1959; CAS Newsletters, 1956-1965; newspaper cuttings, 1955-1959, including copies of articles by David Stirling on self government and common citizenship in Africa; correspondence, 1957-1960 including copies of 'Weekly Summary' a duplicated letter sent to CAS members from London; letters to David Hamilton and David Stirling on society business and African politics; miscellaneous notes and papers.

Material relating to the politics of the British Virgin Islands including platforms, posters, election leaflets, constitutions and manifestos issued by the People's Party (British Virgin Islands), the Third Electoral District Committee (British Virgin Islands), the United Party (British Virgin Islands), the Virgin Islands Party and various independent candidates.

Manuscript copy (sent by Josiel Lefela to the High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland) of memorandum on relations between the British Government and Basuto Nation, presented to the United Nations, 1961.

Manifestos, speeches, constitutions, leaflets, newspapers, convention reports and communiques issued by the Angolan Revolutionary government in exile (GRAE), the Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola, the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola and the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola.

Pamphlets issued by the International Committee for Solidarity with the Workers and People of Aden - South Yemen.

Pamphlets, letters and press releases issued by the Peoples' Socialist Party (Aden-Southern Yemen).