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Mss Eur R1-075
- Record Id:
- 032-002305430
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002305430
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000074.0x0003ba
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur R1-075
- Title:
- Oral Biography papers.
- Scope & Content:
-
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, July 2012.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-002305430", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Mss Eur R1-075: Oral Biography papers." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002305430
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002305430
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 75 items
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1900
- End Date:
- 1947
- Date Range:
- 1900-1947
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Unavailable as awaiting conservation
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- User Conditions:
-
Listening service unavailable until digitization completed.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Presented by BBC and Imperial War Museum, 1981
- Finding Aids:
- For detailed description see handlist in the reading room.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Allen, Joan, fl 1972-1974
Auchinleck, Claude John Eyre, Knight, army officer, 1884-1981
Bengal Pilot Service
Birdwood, Elizabeth Vere Drummond, née Ogilvie, first wife of Christopher Bromhead Birdwood, 1909-1997
Caroe, Olaf Kirkpatrick Kruuse, Knight, colonial administrator, 1892-1981
Carroll, George, police officer in India, fl 1899-1972
Carroll, Mary, fl 1900-1972
Cashmore, Marjorie, wife of Rev Thomas Herbert Cashmore, fl 1919
Cashmore, Thomas Herbert, bishop of Dunwich, 1892-1984
Chatterjee, Raj, manager of Imperial Tobacco India, fl 1930-1975
Corfield, Conrad Laurence, Knight, administrator in India, 1893-1980
Corfield, Sylvia, wife of Sir Conrad Laurence Corfield, d 1977
Cotton, John Richard, Knight, diplomat, 1909-2001
Cotton, Mary Bridget, wife of Sir John Richard Cotton, d 2000
Crichton, Dorothy
Dillon, F J, army officer and interviewee, fl Mid 20th century
Dixon, Edith, interviewee and daughter of Indian state railways traffic manager, fl 1898-1972
Dring, Alice Deborah Marshall, wife of Sir Arthur John Dring, 1899-1993
Dring, Arthur John, Knight, army officer, political agent and politician, 1902-1991
Edwards, Irene, nurse in Bombay and Peshawar, fl 1906-1938
Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, 1783-1937
Griffiths, Kathleen Mary, née Wilkes, teacher and wife of Sir Percival Joseph Griffiths, 1899-1979
Griffiths, Percival Joseph, Knight, businessman and colonial civil servant, 1899-1992
Gupta, R P, subject of an oral history interview, fl Early 20th century
Hamilton, Arthur Plumptre Faunce
Hamilton, Olivia
Humphries, E S
Indian Army, 1895-1947
Indian Civil Service, 1858-1947
Indian Forest Service
Indian Medical Service, 1896-1947
Indian Police, c 1865-
Indian Political Service, 1937-1947
Indian Public Services
Laithwaite, John Gilbert, Knight, colonial administrator, 1894-1986
Lawrence, Rosamond
Le Marchand, Lewis P, Captain
Mason, Philip
Masterman, Christopher Hughes
Mazumdar, Lakshmi
Milligan, Terence Alan, aka 'Spike', comedian and author, 1918-2002,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000114801237
Moon, Edward Penderel, of the Indian Civil Service
Palit, Dharitri Kumar, Major-General
Pierce, Eugene A H
Portal, Iris
Pratt, Edwin B
Roberts, Arfon, Reverend
Roberts, Rosalie
Rowe, Dorothy
Rowe, John, Captain
Savory, Reginald Arthur, Lieutenant-General
Smyth, Frances Read
Smyth, John George, 1st Baronet, Brigadier
Stephens, Ian Melville
Symington, Anne Ellen
Symington, David, of Mss Eur D1156
Vernede, Nancy
Vernede, Raymond Veveysan
Vira, Dharma
Warren, Kenneth
Watney, Norman C
Wickham, Harry Temple
Wood, George Neville, Major-General
Wood, Mary, Subject of Mss Eur R1-075
Zaidi, Bashir Husain - Places:
- India, Asia