Transcription of the diary of John St Clair Jameson (b 1803), Bombay Army. His account of his voyage to Bombay in the Honourable East India Company's Earl of Balcarres [Balcarras] and his introduction to Bombay society, 29th December 1819 to 24th May 1820.
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Transcription of the diary of John St Clair Jameson (b 1803), Bombay Army. His account of his voyage to Bombay in the Honourable East India Company's Earl of Balcarres [Balcarras] and his introduction to Bombay society, 29th December 1819 to 24th May 1820. This is a transcription, with notes, o...
Plain Tales Tape Collection: tape recordings of interviews with persons who lived or worked in India c1900-47, recorded 1972-74, by Charles Allen for his BBC Radio programme entitled `Plain Tales from the Raj'. [Transcripts available]. The collection has been transferred to the Sound Archives, ...
British in India Tape Collection: tape recordings of interviews with persons who lived or worked in India c1900-47, recorded 1975-76, by Charles Allen under the auspices of the British in India Oral Archives Committee. [Transcripts available].
Tape recording of talk, given at Bombay 5 Nov 1981, by Barry Cambray Bloomfield (b 1931), Director of the India Office Library and Records 1978-85, on the resources of the India Office Library and Records.
Tape recording of interview, given 1983, by Carlyle Edmund Seppings (b 1921), Burma Army 1941-45, Burma Police 1945-50, chiefly on his wartime experiences with the Inter-Services Liaison Department as an undercover agent in Burma, and his work in the Burma Police after the war, including his surv...
Tape recording of interview, given 1978, by Miss Dorothy B Thomas (b c1893), nursing sister, Lady Minto's Indian Nursing Association 1928-44, recounting her experiences in Burma 1928-31, and Jalpaiguri, Bengal 1932-34.
Tape recording of interview, given 1982, by Rt Rev Leslie Wilfrid Brown (b 1912), Church Missionary Society missionary, Travancore 1938-52, Chaplain to the Bishop of Lahore 1941, Principal of Kerala United Theological Seminary 1944-52, on his life and work in India.
Tape recording of interview, given 1982, by Annie Winifred Brown (nee Megaw), wife of the Rt Rev Leslie Wilfrid Brown, describing her experiences as a doctor and the wife of a missionary in Travancore.
Tape recording of interview, given 1983, by Sir (Arthur) Paul Benthall (b 1902), employee and later partner of Bird & Company and F W Heilgers (merchants and managing agents), Calcutta, on his life and career in India 1924-c1950.