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New British documents finding aids:
- Great Britain. Public Record Office. Kew
lists: the microfiche edition, 1986. The
Kew lists include, in alphanumeric order
of class code, all the class lists of records
normally kept, and made available for public
inspection, at the Public Record Office at
Kew. Classes normally kept at the Public
Record Office, Chancery Lane, are not included.
In other words, we've got good coverage of
CO, FO, HO and Cab., but none of E., SP.
Or put another way, we're pretty good on
19th-20th century files, but little to no
coverage on pre-19th century files. LOCATION:
SSRC MFICHE 2413.
- Index to the House
of Commons parliamentary papers on CD-ROM (1996). Indexes
all House of Commons parliamentary papers
published from 1801 to the present. It
draws together material from Chadwyck-
Healey's Subject catalogue of the House
of Commons parliamentary papers 1801-1900,
the House of Commons decennial indexes
covering the period 1900-1979, and data
from the Parliamentary Online Information
Service (POLIS) database form 1979 onwards. LOCATION:
Green Library CD-ROM network (library kiosks:
Start>CDrom network)
...students of the past are also limited
by their raw material. They depend...on a complicated
administrative machinery which supplies them
with the tools of their trade in the forms of
files, memoranda, debates and commission reports.
The evidence produced, selected, and preserved
by administrators, government statisticians,
archivists, filing clerks, and record managers
helps to determine the very nature of subsequent
research. (1)
This guide emphasizes (but is not restricted
to) the rich collection for Africa of British
documents in the Stanford libraries. There is
a separate guide covering
bibliographies of official publications of African
countries and former African colonies.
You will find three major classes of British
documents covered here: published material (as
in the Parliamentary Papers); printed but not published material (the Confidential Print); and other archival material (as a variety
of Colonial
Office and Foreign Office records). Stanford
owns this material either in print or microform
(and sometimes in both formats). Additionally,
the library owns the great compilations of documents
retrospectively created documenting British foreign
relations:
- Great Britain.
Foreign Office. Documents on British
foreign policy, 1919-1939. London, H.
M. Stationery Off., 1946-. LOCATION: Stanford
Auxiliary Library 327.42.G78. NOTES:
Incomplete contents: ser. 1. 1919-1939. 27
v.--ser. 1a. 1925-1930. 7 v.--ser. 2. 1929-
1938. 21 v.--ser. 3. 1938-1939. 10 v. "Massive
and authoritative source books for scholars,
compiled with full access to Foreign Office
archives and with full freedom of selection.
These contain an immense volume of otherwise
unpublished data, including not only correspondence
but even telegrams and records of conversations." (Rodgers)
- Great
Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office. British
and foreign state papers. London,
H. M. S. O. 170 v. LOCATION: Government Documents
354.4211.F7. NOTES: v. 1-170;
1812-14--1967-68. Vols. for 1812-14--1959-60
issued by the Foreign Office. Indexes: Vols.
1-20 in v. 21, pt. 1; vols. 1-42, 1373- 1853,
in v. 43; vols. 1-63, 1373-1873, in v. 64;
vols. 65- 79, 1873-1888, in v. 80; vols.
65-92, 1873-1900, in v. 93; vols. 94-114,
1900-1921, in v. 115; vols. 116-137, 1922-
1934, in v. 138; vols. for 1935-60 in v.
165; vols. for 1961-68 in v.170. "A collection
of texts of treaties and other related documents
such as Acts, communiqués, protocols
and exchanges of diplomatic correspondence." (Rodgers)
Other printed editions and compilations of
documents have been created for different purposes.
A recent example is the first Africa volume (Ghana)
in the British documents on the end of the
empire series. This kind of material can
normally be identified in online library catalogs
by the genre of search "FIND SUBJECT KENYA SOURCES",
etc. (as well as of course by means of bibliographies
such as those in The Cambridge history of
the British Empire, 8 v.). Examples:
- Ghana / editor, Richard Rathbone.
London : HMSO, 1992. 2 v. : maps; 26 cm. LOCATION:
Green Library Stacks DT509.13.G47 1992. SERIES:
British documents on the end of the empire. TOPICS: Ghana--
Politics and government--To 1957--Sources. Decolonization--History--Sources.
Great Britain--Politics and government--1945-1954--Sources.
- Kenya Colony and Protectorate. Handing
over reports, 1910-1963 [microform].
LOCATION: Hoover CD2355.K4A23. TOPICS: Kenya--History--1895-1963-- Sources.
NOTES: Consists of reports made from the
various districts and provinces, arranged
by area.
- From dependence to statehood in Commonwealth
Africa: selected documents, World War I to
independence. London ; New York : Oceana
Publications, c1980. LOCATION: Green Library
Stacks DT32.5.F76 (Library has v.1-2). TOPICS:
Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--History--Sources. Africa--History--1884-1960--Sources.
Guides to Public Record Office archives and
short administrative histories:
- Thurston, Anne. Sources for colonial studies
in the Public Record Office. London:
HMSO, c1995-. LOCATION: Green Library SSRC & Stacks
CD1043.3.T54 1995
- Vol. 1: Records of the Colonial Office, Dominions Office, Commonwealth
Relations Office and Commonwealth Office. NOTES: "A
revised and expanded version of G.B. P.R.O. The Records
of the Colonial and Dominions Office
- vol.2: Records of the Cabinet, Foreign Office, Treasury and
other records. NOTES: updates G.B. P.R.O. The
Records of the Foreign Office 1782-1939. LOCATION: SSRC CD1051.A45
- Earlier and still useful introductions: P.R.O. "Never
Complain, Never Explain": Records of
the Foreign Office and State Paper Office
1500-c. 1960. LOCATION:
SSRC & HASRC JX1783.A97 1994F |
Rodgers (1980) A Guide to British Government
Publications. LOCATION:
Green Info Center & Government Documents
Z2009.R62 | Pemberton (1973) British
Official Publications, rev. ed. LOCATION:
Info Center & Government Documents Z2009.P45
For a concise overview of PRO records on Africa
see Pearson, A guide to manuscripts and documents
in the British Isles relating to Africa,
2 vol., London; New York: Mansell, 1993-1994.
LOCATION: HASRC CD1048.A3 P43 1993. And earlier
work by Anne Thurston: Guide to archives and
manuscripts relating to Kenya and East Africa
in the United Kingdom, 1991. 2 v. LOCATION:
Green Library Stacks Z3587.T48 1991. NOTES:
Includes index. Contents: v. 1. Official records
-- v. 2. Non-official archives and manuscripts.
Back to the table of contents
(Anglophone Africa is better represented than
Francophone, although there are significant collections
for both. There are significant but fewer materials
for Lusophone Africa)
Hoover Library
- older official gazettes
- U.S. National Archives. Records of
the Department of State relating to internal
affairs of British Africa, 1910-1929.
MFILM CD3031.A35.M-583.
- Great Britain. Colonial Office. East
African Pamphlets [1880-1958] 14 reels
MFILM DT421.G7 For inventory see Great Britain.
Colonial Office. Inventory of materials
dealing with East Africa. 2 vols.
Hoover Stack Z3516.G786f Covers from Ethiopia
and Somalia in the North, Zaire in the East
to Zambia, Malawi in the South.
- Great Britain. Colonial Office. Pamphlets
about Africa [1870-1960] 24 reels
MFILM DT6.G785 For inventory see Great Britain.
Colonial Office. Pamphlets about Africa;
microfilm 698. CSt-H Reference DT6.G785
- Great
Britain. Colonial Office & Great Britain.
Foreign Office. Confidential print:
Africa, 1870-1922. MFILM DT32.A258. Inventories
[3 vols] in Hoover Ref. and in Green Library
SSRC Reading Room: Africa confidential
prints: an inventory, Z3509.A47 1964.
Volumes 1 and 2 of the inventory are available
as searchable pdf files: vol.
1 | vol. 2. "Third
List" of the preceding inventory: Confidential
prints not included among the microfilms
for Hoover. Also
G.B. PRO. List of Colonial Office Confidential
Prints to 1916 [Gov Docs Ref CD1052.A15],
and List of Papers Printed for the
Use of the Colonial Office (Oct. 1920), Confidential
Print, miscellaneous no. 141, film
on order. Vandenburgh (1980), "A keyword
index to British Colonial Office confidential
prints on Africa", Africana J.,
vol.11, no.3, p.197-231. For an introduction
to confidential prints see Hannam (1990) "Colonial
Office Confidential Print: An Underutilized
Resource for African Studies," African
Research and Documentation, no.54,
p. 1-18. [Hoover Periodicals]. Includes a
country/subject index for 1919-1962.
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Green Library has a print
version of the Foreign Office Confidential
print (50 volumes).
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British Documents
In addition to archival material listed below,
microfilm of Public Record Office archives (and
a listing of indexes for this material) -- owned
by Stanford and other U.S. libraries -- can be
found in British
PRO Archival Material at Stanford, with
appendices for U.C. Berkeley and selective U.S.
libraries.
- British Parliamentary
Papers (Location: Gov Docs Library).
- Indexes: Subject Catalogue of the
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900 (vol.
5). For 1901-1949: General
Index to the Bills, Reports & Papers
1900-1949, (Also: Guide
to Parliamentary Papers. What they are,
how to find them, how to use them,
1972,
Social Sciences Resource Center Z2009.A1F6 1972.)
- British Parliamentary Debates (Location:
Gov Docs Library). Index is in final volume
of each session.
- G.B. Foreign Office
(and some & Colonial Office). Confidential
print. U.P.A. published edition:
- Great Britain. Foreign Office. Confidential
print. British documents
on foreign affairs--reports and papers
from the Foreign Office confidential
print. Part I, From the
mid-nineteenth century to the First
World War. Series G, Africa,
1848-1914. Bethesda, MD: University
Publications of America, c1995. LOCATION:
Green Library Stacks JX632.B769 1995
f, v.1-25.
CONTENTS: v. 1. Cape Province and the Eastern
Frontier, 1848-1856 -- v. 2. Natal and Zululand, 1856-1879 --
v. 3. Natal and Zululand, 1879-1908 -- v. 4. The Cape, the Boer
Republics and the Digger's Revolt, 1873-1876 -- v. 5. Relations
with the South African Republic (1876-1895): Annexation and Independence
-- v. 6. Relations with the South African Republic (1895-1896):
The Jameson Raid and Its Aftermath -- v. 7. Relations with South
African Republic, 1896-1898 -- v. 8. Anglo- Boer War I: From
eve of war to capture of Johannesburg, 1899-1990 -- v. 9. Anglo-Boer
War II: Attitude of European powers and post- war reconstruction,
1901-1905 -- v. 10. Labour problems and responsible government
in Transvaal and Orange River Colony, 1905-1914 -- v. 11. British
South Africa Company, Bechuanaland and Rhodesia, 1885-1895 --
v. 12. Mozambique, Nyasaland and Northeastern Rhodesia, 1899-1902
-- v. 13. Abyssinia and its neighbours, 1854-1914 -- v. 14. East
Africa: diplomacy of imperialism, 1884-1911 -- v. 15. Kingdom
of Buganda and Uganda Protectorate, 1886-1895 -- v. 16. Kingdom
of Buganda and British Uganda, 1895-1904 -- v. 17 British East
Africa, 1887-1905 -- v. 18 East Africa: offshore territories
of Zanzibar and Madagascar, 1885-1913 -- v. 19. West Africa:
Diplomacy of Imperialism, 1868-1895 -- v. 20. West Africa: Diplomacy
of Imperialism, 1895-1913 -- v. 21. The Niger and Oil Rivers,
1860-1898 -- v. 22. Sierra Leone, Gold Coast and Liberia, 1862-1914
-- v. 23. The Congo Free State, 1863-1906 -- v. 24. The Congo
Free State/Belgian Congo, 1907-1914 -- v. 25. Portuguese, French
and German West African possessions, 1876-1913.
- Great Britain. Foreign Office. Confidential
print. British documents
on foreign affairs--reports and papers
from the Foreign Office confidential
print. Part II, From the
First to the Second World War.
Series G, Africa, 1914-1939.
LOCATION: Green Library Stacks JX632.B769
1994 f, v.1-30.
TOPICS: Great Britain--Foreign relations-- Africa--Sources. Africa--Foreign
relations--Great Britain--Sources.
The Confidential Print is printed but
unpublished material for ministry and other
government use. It normally does not reproduce
minutes, and does not represent
the entirety of archival material on any
particular issue. See p.xiii of the introduction
of each volume of the University Publications
of America (UPA) edition for exclusions from
that set.
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Hoover's
microfilm confidential print
set includes Colonial Office and Foreign
Office prints. The Green Library
UPA edition is Foreign Office
Confidential Print except for
CO material for the Cape Province,
1848-.
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The following
material is not included in the UPA
published edition:
State Papers. A category of command papers that are collected into volumes at the end of
each year of the Parliamentary Papers and
arranged into two groupings: State Papers, General and International;
State Papers, Treaties. Some are also found in British and Foreign State Papers. The State Papers
issued by Command are additionally divided into three series: Treaty,
Country, and Miscellaneous.
Diplomatic Papers. A large amount of Foreign Office material
was issued as diplomatic "blue books" (not the colonial blue
books mentioned later) and were published in the Parliamentary
Papers as Command Papers. See Temperley (1938) A century
of diplomatic blue books 1814-1914. LOCATION: Green Library SSRC
Z2009.T28; Vogel (1963) A Breviate of British Diplomatic Blue
Books 1919-1939. LOCATION: Green Library SSRC Z2009.V65.
Other confidential prints:
- Great Britain. Foreign Office. Confidential
print, Slave Trade 1858-1892. MFILM
1103.
- Great Britain. Colonial Office. Confidential
print, miscellaneous 34. (Proceedings
of the Colonial Conference, 1887.) MICROCARD
1041.
- Great Britain.
Colonial Office. Colonial reports-annual series
See Mcllwaine, "Annual Reports on the British Possessions in Africa," Africa,
a guide to reference material (1993):421-452. LOCATION:
Social Sciences Resource Center Z3501.M3. This book gives Parliamentary Papers command
numbers, including geographical name cross-references. Colonial
reports are found in the Parliamentary Papers through the end of World
War I (actually through 1920). AFTER 1920: Colonial Office annual
reports are bound and in the Stanford Auxiliary Library in the series Great
Britain. Colonial Office. Colonial Reports-Annual. LOCATION:
Stanford Auxiliary Library 325.342.G787. The individual
report numbers can be found on a separate page.
This series extends to 1938 when there is a break for WWII. Thereafter, it
continues as annual reports for the individual colonies (e.g.: Annual
report on the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. London, H.M. Stationery
Office; Annual Report on the Somaliland Protectorate ); refer
to Mcllwaine, "Annual Reports on the British Possessions in Africa," op.
cit., for a listing. Consular reports are a different
matter.
- Great Britain. Colonial Office. The
Dominions Office and Colonial Office list
for .... Title varies: Colonial
office list 1862-1925. LOCATION:
Stanford Auxiliary Library 325.342.C719 (Library
has c.1: 1888-89; 1895-96; 1898- 1900; 1902;
1904-24; 1926-32; 1936-40//). NOTES: 1st
(1862)-79th (1940). Comprising historical
and statistical information respecting the
oversea dominions and colonies of Great Britain" (subtitle
varies). The Dominions Office section merged
with: Great Britain. India Office. India
Office and Burma Office list for..., to form:
Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations.
Commonwealth Relations Office list. The Colonial
Office section was continued by: Great Britain.
Colonial Office. Colonial Office list (1946-66).
The back of each volume has abbreviated biographies
of colonial thru 1965. Continued by Colonial
Office List, 1946-1966// LOCATION:
Green Stack JV33.G7A2; LOCATION: Hoover Stack
JV33.G7.C71. Continued by: Commonwealth
Relations Office List, then Yearbook
of the Commonwealth. 1951-53, 1955-63,
1965 on. LOCATION: Hoover JV33.G7Y39; Hoover
Reference: 1989 volume.
- Great Britain. Colonial Office. Colonial
no. 2-362 incomplete. LOCATION: Stanford
Auxiliary Library 325.342.G784. Mainly
publications from the 1950s Publications
designated Colonial no. can be found by subject,
region/country, and by colonal no. in Colonial
Office. Sectional
List no. 34. (green cover) London,
H.M.S.O., 1961. 63 p. LOCATION: SSRC. This
also indexes some command papers and other
publications including:
- Great Britain. Colonial Office. Colonial research publications. London,
H. M. Stationery Off., 1948-. LOCATION: Stanford Auxiliary Library
325.342.G784c (Library has c.1: 1-25; 1948-61)
- Great Britain. Colonial Office. Colonial research studies.
LOCATION: Stanford Auxiliary Library 325.342.G784crs f (Library has
c.1: 1-36.Vol. 14 classed as separate)
- G.B. Public Record Office. Cape of Good
Hope (South Africa). Records
of the Cape Colony [microform] /
copied for the Cape government, from the
manuscript documents in the Public Record
Office, London, by George McCall Theal. London:
Printed for the government of the Cape Colony,
1897-1905 (London: W. Clowes and Sons) 36
v.: maps; 22 cm. LOCATION: Green Library
Microtext MFILM N.S. 10540 (Library has c.1:
v.1-36). NOTES: Records from Feb. 1793 [v.
1] - Apr. 1831 [v. 35] Vol. 36 comprises
a cumulative index. "Every fifth volume contains
a copious index... of the contents of itself
and of the preceding four"--v. 36, p. 2.
Guide to Contents filmed.
- Public Record Office Africa Exploration microfilm
(records of the Colonial Office) The
exploration and colonization of Africa, 1794-1844.
[C.O. 2]. 13 microfilm reels. LOCATION: Green
Library Microtext MFILM N.S. 2394 and guides: Guide
to the microfilm edition of The exploration
and colonization of Africa, 1794-1844.
LOCATION: Green Library SSRC DT32.G85; Africa:
exploration, entry books, 1825-1915.
[C.O. 392]. LOCATION: Green Library Microtext
MFILM N.S. 2395. TOPICS: Africa--Discovery
and exploration--Indexes.
Blue Books for British Africa:
These are compilations of statistics and other information issued by
the colony or possession, and are a major source upon which the colonial
annual reports (discussed above) were based.
In Socrates: FIND TITLE blue book and
ORGANIZATION [country]. This approach is not wholly reliable. In MELVYL:
FIND PE blue book gambia, etc. (The UC Berkeley Documents Collection
has microfilm of a number of Blue Books; check MELVYL.) (Berkeley & Stanford
include Blue Book holdings for Gambia, Gold Coast, Nigeria, Kenya Colony
and Protectorate, Uganda, and Sierra Leone, among others). To identify
Blue Books, their dates and exact titles, check List of the Serial
Publications of Foreign Governments, 1815-1931. [sample
entry] LOCATION: Green Library Info Center Z7164.G7 L7.
British Cabinet Minutes/Memos
(For other memoranda & minutes and information on indexes see British
Public Record Office Archival Material at Stanford.)
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Memoranda, 1915-1938.
[MICROFORM] [London] Public Record Office. 215 reels. LOCATION: Green
Library Microtext MFILM N.S. 777 (Library has c.1: 1- 288. Missing "piece" numbers
are shelved at end as indexes). Indexes: In addition to complete
indexes at the end of the microfilm, there are hard copy indexes
issued by the List & Index Society (LOCATION: Green
Library SSRC CD1040 L5f ) as follows: Dec., 1916- 0ct. 1919 (GT papers)
Cab. 24/6-90 in vol. 156; 1919- 1920 (CP papers) in vol. 29; Oct.
1920-June 1921 (CP papers) in vol. 41; June 1921-Dec. 1922 (CP papers)
in vol. 52.
- Great Britain. Cabinet. Photographic copies of Cabinet letters
in the Royal Archives, 1868-1916. London, Public Record
Office, 1975?. 13 reels. LOCATION: Green Library Microtext MFILM
N.S. 1500. Guide: Great Britain. Cabinet. Photographic copies
of cabinet letters in the Royal Archives (Cab. 41): [ list
of contents ]. [88] leaves, bound; 28 cm. LOCATION: Green
Library SSRC CD1040.L52 1960a
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Minutes, 1916-1939.
[microform]. London, Public Record Office. LOCATION: Green Library
Microtext MFILM N.S. 173. NOTES: Cab. 23/100 folio 156 confidential
until 1990, not on film.
United States documents
- The United States and Africa: guide to
U.S. official documents and government-sponsored
publications on Africa, 1785-1975 / compiled
by Julian W. Witherell. Washington: Library
of Congress, 1978. LOCATION: Green Library
Info Center Z3501.W57. Also see the several
Jonsson Library guides for U.S. federal documents.
French documents
- French
Parliamentary Papers (A Jonsson
Library guide)
- French Parliamentary Debates. In SOCRATES
under the heading: France. Parlement (1946-
). Assemblee nationale.
- France. Assemblee nationale, 1871-1942. Annales
- Westfall (1992) French colonial Africa:
a guide to official sources. LOCATION:
Government Documents DT532.W47 1992. TOPICS:
Africa, French-speaking West-- History--Sources--Bibliography.
Africa, French-speaking Equatorial--History--Sources--Bibliography.
France--Colonies--Africa--History--Sources--Bibliography.
Government publications--Africa, French-speaking
West--Bibliography. Government publications--Africa,
French-speaking Equatorial-- Bibliography.
- Sources de l'histoire du Proche-Orient
françaises / Commission française
du Guide des Sources de l'Histoire des Nations.
Saur, 1984. 2 v. LOCATION: Green Library
HASRC Z3001.S62 1980
Portuguese documents
- Portuguese Colonial Bureau Bulletin (1925-1970)
and reports: Boletim geral do Ultramar.
LOCATION: Stanford Auxiliary Library 325.3469.P853b.
TOPICS: Portugal--Colonies. (Other material
under corporate entry Direccao geral do Ultramar & Agencia
geral das Colonias.)
Post-colonial
In addition to the sources listed below, microfilm
of British Public Record Office archives (and
a listing of indexes for this material), owned
by Stanford and other U.S. libraries, can be
found in British
PRO Archival Material at Stanford, with
appendices for U.C. Berkeley and selective U.S.
libraries.
- The United States and Africa: guide to
U.S. official documents and government-sponsored
publications on Africa, 1785-1975 / compiled
by Julian W. Witherell. Washington: Library
of Congress, 1978. xix, 949 LOCATION: Green
Library Info Center Z3501.W57
- CIA research reports: Africa, 1946-
1976. 3 microfilm reels: ill., maps.
LOCATION: Green Library Microtext MFILM N.S.
3787. Guide compiled by Robert
Lester (12 p.): LOCATION: Green Library SSRC
DT31.7.C153; Green Library Microtext DT31.7.C153.
- CIA research reports: The Middle East,
1946-1976. (Includes Egypt). [MICROFORM].
3 microfilm reels; 35 mm. LOCATION: Green
Library Microtext MFILM N.S. 3813.
- Official publications of South African
states [microform]. Pretoria: State
Library, 1986. 4950 microfiches. LOCATION:
Green Library Microtext MFICHE 1059. Notes:
Reproduction includes hansards, estimates,
gazettes, laws etc., departmental annual
reports, and miscellaneous publications of
10 south African states, from the time of
their establishment through 1982; supplemented
by one five-year cumulative suppl. (1983-1987)
and annual supplements; the collection is
arranged by state, category of publication
(hansards, estimates, etc.) and dates. The 1988-94
Supplement is on order (NOTIS: ANS3411). Guide: Bibliography
of official publications of the black South
African homelands. 2nd ed., rev. Pretoria:
University of South Africa, 1983, c1979.
LOCATION: Green Library Gen Ref Z3607.H65
K67 1983.
- World Conference to Review and Appraise
the Achievements of the United Nations Decade
for Women (1985: Nairobi, Kenya) UN
World Conference Decade for Women, Nairobi,
Kenya, 1985. [microform]. 62 microfiches:
negative; 11 x 15 cm. LOCATION: Government
Documents MFICHE 1009. Contains official
documentation of the conference and related
papers. For contents consult: United
Nations Decade for Women. LOCATION:
Green Library Gen Ref Z7961 .U53 1986.
- Microfiche collection of the African
Training and Research Center for Women [microform].
[1984?]. 253 microfiches. LOCATION: Green
Library SSRC MFICHE 736. Also known as: African
Training and Research Centre for Women publications.
For contents consult: Finding List
to the Microfiche collection of the African
Training and Research Center for Women.
LOCATION: Green Library SSRC HQ1786.F55 1984.
For recent publications search Socrates:
FIND OP African Training...
- African Economic & Financial Data [1960-1987].
(UNDP/ World Bank). LOCATION: Green Library
SSDS HC800.A5667 1990 DISK + 1 manual
United Nations
- In Socrates:
FIND OP African Development Bank
Other Resources:
Census, development reports, statistics, etc.
Development information
and national development plans
(The Stanford Libraries collect
national development plans from nearly all
countries. References to the latest published
plans can be found in: Guide to Official
Publications of Foreign Countries. CIS,
1990. Z7164.G7 G83 1990. LOCATION: Green Library
IC and SSRC )
- Development
Information from Government Sources (A
Jonsson Library guide)
- National development plans: 1726 social
and economic development plans from 182 countries,
past and current on microfiche. 5th
cumulative catalog. Zug: Inter Documentation
Co., [1985-]. LOCATION: Green Library SSRC,
uncataloged. NOTES: "Contains all title listed
in previous catalogs and supplemental lists
up to and including the 6th supplement at
1980." MICROFICHE Collection at U.C. Berkeley:
The citations for these plans can be found
by searching the Melvyl catalog: "fin su
[country name]--social policy and su [country
name]--economic policy".
- Rural and Regional Development: Development
Plans, Programmes, and Projects. IDC,
1995-. Microfiche 2160 SSRC-FICHE. This collection
of over 700 documents includes a significant
number of subnational development plans--both
at the state or province and regional levels.
The citations for individual reports can
be found by performing an "Expert Search" in
SOCRATES using the following syntax: se "rural
and regional development" and su [country
name]. A printed guide is shelved as HT395.D44
R87 1996 in the SSRC.
- Documents on Education Development.
IDC. Microfiche 2269 Cubberley Education Library.
Over 600 development projects, research reports, conference papers, statistical
reports, etc. on the development of education in the Third World, based on
the bibliographies by Diana Clayton. Many of these publications concern locally
produced material regarded as grey literature and are very difficult to collect.
The citations for individual reports can be found by performing an "Expert
Search" in SOCRATES using the following syntax: se "documents on education
development" and su [country name]. A printed guide is shelved as LC6205
D63 1996 in the SSRC and Cubberley Library Reference collections
- African
Development Bank. To search for ADB publications
in Socrates perform
an "Expert Search" using the following
syntax: org "African Development Bank "
Census
For identification of recent
census publications: Handbook of National
Population Censuses: Africa & Asia.
LOCATION: Green Library SSRC HA37.A33 D65 1986; Guide
to Official Publications of Foreign Countries,
2nd ed. LOCATION: Green Library Info Center & SSRC
Z7164.G7 G9464 1997. There are many printed
census in Green Stack: search Socrates for
country name and subject "population." The
Library of Congress subject heading generally
looks something like "Botswana--population--statistics"
- International Population Census. Series
1...1945-1967. LOCATION: Green Library
Microtext MFILM N.S. 3074.
- International Population Census. Series
3...post 1967 (coverage to 1977).
LOCATION: Green Library Microtext MFILM N.S.
10653.
GUIDES: Goyer, Doreen S., International
population census bibliography, revision and update, 1945-1977. LOCATION:
IC & SSRC Z7164.D3 G69 1980. International population census,
1945-1967, cross-reference guide. LOCATION: IC & SSRC Z7164.D3
G69 1980 SUPPL. International population census publications, post-1967:
guide to the microfilm edition. LOCATION: IC & SSRC Z7553.C3
I61 1985A.
Statistics
- Green Library Social Sciences Resource Center
(SSRC) has current annual statistical abstracts
of individual countries and of international
organizations. Many other statistical reports
of the various agencies of African countries
are shelved in the Green Stack, check Socrates.
For 1983 and on: Index to International
Statistics is useful as a guide to statistics
and as a subject index to publications of international
organizations concerning individual African
countries. The web version is Statistical
Universe (and the site includes a handy
list sources of international statistics indexed).
The Social Sciences
Resource Center has microfiche of all material
referenced by IIS. Hardcopy may also be available:
check Socrates.
- Sources
of Comparative International Statistics (Jonsson
Library guide)
- C.I.A. World
Factbook (via GPO Access)
- International Historical Statistics:
Asia & Africa, 1982. LOCATION:
HA4675.M55 Green Info Center. Preliminary
material includes "Boundary Changes & Colonial
History," "Currency Changes"; "Sources of
Statistics."
- Also see Subject Catalogue of the House
of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900
(LOCATION: Government Documents Z2019.C63) or
its electronic analog under "Colonial
Administration" (Colonies, statistical tables) & General
Index to the Bills, Reports & Papers
1900-1949 (LOCATION: Green Library
SSRC Z2009.A42) under "Colonies & Dominions--statistics" and "Statistics--British
Empire." Herein are indexed Statistical
Abstract for the British Empire, published
as a command paper in the Parliamentary
Papers
- South
Africa Data Archive
- Statistics
South Africa
Maps and Atlases
Atlases are normally found in the Socrates Books
file (find keyword MAPS and xxx [country or region]); for sheet maps select
the Maps file and do a subject and/or organization search.
- CIA maps for Africa
- African History in Maps by
Michael Kwamena-Poh, John Tosh, Harlow, Essex:
Longman Group Ltd., 1982. LOCATION: Green Library
Stacks G2446.S1 A4 1982
- New Atlas of African History.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. LOCATION:
Green Library Stacks G2446.S1 F73 1991 f
- Historical Atlas of Africa.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
LOCATION: Green Library Info Center G2446.S1H5.1985f
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Notes
1) Gann and Duignan
(1971) The Burden of Empire, p.3.
2) If you already
have a citation to a command paper such
as C, Cd, Cmd, Cmnd; use: Numerical finding
list of British command papers published 1833-1961/62,
by Edward Di Roma and Joseph A. Rosenthal.
New York Public Library, 1967. 148 p.
Social Sciences Resource Center Z2009.D5. This tells you the year
published, volume number, first page.
British command papers, a numerical finding list 1962/63-1976/77.
1982. 35 p.
Social Sciences Resource Center Z2009.D5.1971 suppl.
3) Colonial Office
consular reports are original correspondence
from the colonies. This is manuscript material
and exists in the original in the Public Record
Office. It has been filmed, but no U.S. library
has the film (as of 9/93). Hoover and Green
MTXT each have film of some U.S.
Department of State consular dispatches from
Africa.
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