1. Copy of a letter from J C Macnabb to his mother dated Meerut, 10 May 1857, on Indian Mutiny. 2. Unto the Third and Fourth Generation - an episode in Indian history by A C Macnab of Macnab. An autobiography and family history. 3. copy of Doroth Macnabb’s Notes on the Campbell & Macnabb f...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1857-1946
Extent:
1 volume of typescript (328 pp); typescript of a letter (4 ff); 1 bundle of photocopies
Papers presented to BACSA by Reginald Robert Langham-Carter (b1903) comprising chiefly photographs and memorabilia relating to his time in the Indian Civil Service, Burma 1927-1948; also some papers and photos of his father William Langham-Carter (1869-1940), Malayan Civil Service 1890-1925. 1/...
A selection of material related mostly to entertainment in Calcutta, India during the Second World War. Typescripts of broadcasts (mainly plays) from All India Radio; BESA and Garrison Theatre programmes; Bengal Entertainmnet Services Association bulletins.
Directory of Motor Trade of India and Ceylon, 1939
Scope & Content:
Pre-publication directories with photographs of architecture and street scenes of car dealers in India and Ceylon, compiled by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), comprising: 1) Directory of Motor Trade of India - Bombay 2) Directory of Motor Trade of Ceylon - Colombo 3) Li...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1939-1946
Extent:
2 vols (139 ff., 35 ff.) with original photograph prints and maps; 12 ff of typescript.
Papers of Maj John Frederick Arthur Mason (1920-2011), Assistant Adjutant 1942-43, Adjutant 1943-45, and Battalion Commander 1945 of No 8 Mechanical Transport Training Centre, Kharian, Gujrat, Punjab 1942-45. Papers relating to organisation, administration and activities of 8 MTTC and other ephemeral material.
Scope & Content:
1. Class notes and instructional literature issued to pupils at the RIASC school at Kakul (attended by subalterns on first arrival in India) 2. Papers relating to orgaisation, administration adn activities of 8 MTTC 3. Papers relating to Adjutants Law Course 4. Urdu language examination paper...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-2002
Extent:
11 folders of loose sheets and 2 volumes of scrapbook
Forchhammer Burmese Pali manuscripts and related papers
Scope & Content:
Burmese manuscripts with notes and articles by Emmanuel Forchhammer (1851-1890), German linguist, archaeologist. Professor of Pali at Rangoon Government High School from 1879. Archaeological inspector of British Burma, 1882-1890.
Kris Hardin (1953-2012) collection of material relating to Sierra Leone
Scope & Content:
Field notes, audio recordings of music and storytelling, colour transparencies and other related material on Sierra Leone compiled by Kris Hardin, anthropologist, author of The aesthetics of action: continuity and change in a west African town (Smithsonian Institute, Washington and London, c.1993).
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1982-1984
Extent:
1 box of typescript, 1 box of scanned copy, 1 box of cards, 1 memo notebook and typescript, 2 envelopes of 35mm colour slides (transferred to Visual Arts), 16 tape cassettes & 12 CDs (transferred to World & Traditional Music),
Battle of Ghuznee, Afghanistan 1842, by Colonel Charles Harris
Scope & Content:
Account of the Siege of Ghuznee, Afghanistan in 1842 by Col Charles Harris (b.1817), entered 27th Regiment of Bengal Infantry in 1935, Persian interpreter during the First Anglo-Afghan War, rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel of Bengal Staff Corps in 1866, returned to England in 1871. The jou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1842
Extent:
1 manuscript volume (110 pp.), some pen & ink drawings and a map;1 volume of scanned copies.
The collection contains the papers of Charles Murray Ker (1906-1989) relating to his career in the Indian Civil Service 1929-1947. It also contains letters from William Pollock Ker (1864-1945), British Consular official in China 1888-1926, and his wife Lucy Christina Murray Ker (b 1868), and incl...