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Public Record Office Colonial/Foreign Office records

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Kind state archives
Producer Colonial Office / Foreign Office
Coverage 1795-1990s
Works using it 14

Debates

Debate Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 7
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 5
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 4
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 3
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 2
Finance, capital flight, the 1985 debt crisis and banking 1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth? 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Arndt (1928) Colonial Office records C.O. 414/7 (G.2, G.3, G.30), C.O. 414/8, C.O. 49/16-31, C.O. 48/162-184, C.O. 58/170, T. 28/54-59 (Public Record Office, London) 1795-1840 Supplies note-issue tables, Caledon's Committee report of 18/1/1808, and the Treasury/Colonial Office correspondence on the 1825 sterling change and new notes.
Brookes (1924) Colonial Office despatches (Murray, Aberdeen, Glenelg, Earl Grey, Smith, Grey, Cathcart, Frere, West) 1830-1879 Quoted extensively to trace the Treaty system, Location policy and the 'Sepoy' scheme.
Cope (1989) CO 48/478 marginal comment on Cape Ministerial minute, 14 March 1876 1876 Shows Colonial Office puzzlement at Molteno ministry's suspicion of Froude's ideas.
Cope (1989) Carnarvon Papers, Public Record Office (PRO 30/6) including Carnarvon-Wolseley, Carnarvon-Barkly, Carnarvon-Froude, Wolseley to Carnarvon letters 1874-1876 Private letters reveal Carnarvon's and Wolseley's real views on native policy, Natal insecurity and 'masters or servants'.
Cope (1989) Colonial Office file CO 179 (Natal) - CO 179/116 and CO 179/122 including Carnarvon's reply to Natal Land & Colonisation Company in The Standard cutting 1874-1876 Shows Colonial Office turning to Jamaican precedents and Carnarvon's statement on 'a black colony'.
Cope (1989) Colonial Office files, Public Record Office: CO 879 confidential print series (African/Natal nos 84, 86, 102, 108, 121, 168, 174 etc.) incl. Fairfield confidential memoranda (CO 879/9 nos 84, 86) and Conference on South African Affairs 1876 (CO 879/10 no 102) 1875-1879 Supplies Fairfield's memoranda, conference minutes and despatches to show the Colonial Office aimed at white supremacy and a labour supply.
Halpern (2004) Colonial Office files CO 179 (Natal despatches, reports on native labour, Gazette bill, Governor-General correspondence) 1890-1913 Evidence for forced African labour on public works (1,866 employed), cattle purchase restrictions, liquor bill, and complaints about indenture abuses.
Harries (1987) Public Record Office, Colonial Office series CO 179 (Natal despatches) 1863-1876 Despatches of Keate, Musgrave, Wolseley and Colonial Office annotations establish policy of protecting peasant revenue and imperial caution on labour importation.
Jeeves (1975a) Colonial Office Confidential Print, African South (CO 879) and CO 291/CO 879 despatches (Selborne-Elgin correspondence) 1901-1907 Establishes Robinson's letters to Elgin, Elgin's support for his recruiting licences, Selborne's replies and the Botha settlement.
Jeeves (1975b) Colonial Office Confidential Print, Series African South (C.O. 879), microfilm in TAD 1897-1907 Sources for Robinson's letters to Elgin, Selborne's despatches, and the Mozambique recruiting dispute.
Jeeves (1987) Public Record Office London, Colonial Office (CO 525) and Dominions Office (DO 35) files 1935-1943 Documents imperial and colonial government attitudes to WNLA, recruitment expectations, Nyasaland planters, and TB in Basutoland.
Jeeves and Crush (1992) Public Record Office, W. Gemmill, 'TCM. Gold Producers' Committee, Mozambique Convention Negotiations', 30 March 1928 1928 Supports account of the 1928 Mozambique Convention negotiations and the Gold Producers' Committee role.
Keegan (1979) Colonial Office records, CO 224 series (Orange River Colony despatches), e.g. CO 224/15, 224/16, 224/25, 224/27, 224/31, 224/32 1904-1909 Despatches on land valuations, subdivisions, Swinburne's complaints, the 1904 enforcement instruction, Hertzog's comments on the 1908 Act, and Garnett's reports on evictions.
Keegan (1979) Colonial Office records, CO 417 series (Basutoland despatches), CO 417/297 and CO 417/455 1900, 1908 Shows the wartime influx of cattle into Basutoland and forestry/soil deterioration.
Nattrass (2006) British 'imperial archive' / archival research in Hyam and Henshaw, The Lion and the Springbok (second review on the same pages) 1899-1990s The second review describes the book's reliance on 'proper' archival research on high politics, which is not the subject of the Feinstein review.
Sanderson (1961) Archives of Zomba and Salisbury and Foreign Office records in London (author's search) nineteenth century Author states searches found almost no mention of labour emigration before 1900.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986a) Public Record Office, CO 525/166/44053/3, minute by J. A. Calder 4.2.1937 1937 Shows the Rand mines' 1937 expectation of drawing 70,000 miners per year from the north, which the authors call an over-estimate.
Yudelman and Jeeves (1986b) Colonial Office file CO 525/166/44053/3, Pt 1 (PRO Kew), minute by J. A. Calder, 1937 1937 Shows Rand mines' expectation of 70,000 miners a year from the northern territories, judged an over-estimate.