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Digitized copies of some of the standardized annual Blue Books submitted by British colonial administrators in Africa to the British Colonial Office. Contains statistics relating to African countries prior to independence.

Part of the British Online Archives, these annual reports illustrate the dramatic historical development of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) from corporate colonization, through imperial colonization, to independence. Reports include administration, Auditor General, Accounting Estimates, Miscellaneous Financial Records, Judicial and Police, Natural Resources, Social Services, Transport and Public Works, Communications and Post Office Savings, Commerce, Corporations and Boards, Meteorology, Public Relations and Tourism.

art of the British Online Archives, the database contains annual reports of British colonial administrators in the Protectorate of Uganda. These reports provide valuable and detailed information as to the development of the Protectorate Government's administrative, professional and technical services. Excellent source for primary source materials on education, medical care, judiciary, housing and treatment of the native population.

Apartheid South Africa is a primary source database containing British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980. Content includes diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events. The files explore the relationship of the international community with South Africa and chart increasing civil unrest against a backdrop of waning colonialism in Africa and mounting world condemnation. The database is in three sections: 1948-1966, 1967-1975 and 1976-1980.

An important resource for researching modern Africa and its recent history. It provides access to a wealth of primary sources regarding the United Kingdom’s Colonial, Dominion and Foreign Offices’ confidential correspondence relating to Africa between 1834 and 1966. Materials includes reports, dispatches, correspondence, descriptions of leading personalities, economic analyses etc., also features 300 color maps.

Contains original manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' (with emphasis on the British empire), and its theories, practices and consequences. Includes scholarly interpretive essays. The materials span across the last five centuries.

This collection from the Archives of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel contains materials on the Society’s work dating from their earliest connection with South Africa. Materials include letters written to the SPG, by the bishop, missionaries, and by other persons such as administrators; Annual Reports written by missionaries about the area and their work.