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Records of the War Office (as filmed by the AJCP), 1770-1960

1358 items
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The War Office records cover a wide variety of material relating to both Colonial and Australian involvements in armed conflicts. Amongst the records filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project are documents and correspondence of the Commander- in-Chief, Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State and Judge-Advocate General.
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Papers of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (as filmed by the AJCP), 19 March 1847-18 July 1880

167 items
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Political correspondence, including official and semi-official letters. Subjects include: emigration; colonial governorships; Fiji; establishment of Moreton Bay as a separate colony; the Congress of Berlin (1878); military action in Malaya; colonial appointments; affairs of Sir James Brooke; and Fenian prisoners.
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Papers of the Acland Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1840-1902

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Correspondence, diaries, newspaper cuttings and a photograph album.
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Records held by the Methodist Archives and Research Centre (as filmed by the AJCP), 1810-1973

166 items
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Correspondence 1903-1928 of A.S. Peake concerning his work in New Zealand.
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Papers of Sir Richard Owen (as filmed by the AJCP), 1796-1889

84 items
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Correspondence 1836-1883. Subjects include: discovery of fossils in Australia; observations of Tasmanian Aborigines; self-government in New South Wales; research on Australian and New Zealand fauna including platypus and moa; dispatch of Australian specimens and skulls of Maoris and Aborigines. Correspondents include W. Clift, G. Bennett, Sir Walter Buller, R. Etheridge, W.B. Clarke, Sir Julius von Haast, J.L.G. Krefft, Sir Ferdinand von Mueller, E.P. Ramsay, T.H.C. Hood and H. Woodward.
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Records of Downside Abbey (as filmed by the AJCP), 1819-1869

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Letters, arranged chronologically, sent to Rev. T. Heptonstall, Abbot Gregory and other members of the Downside community. Correspondents include Polding, Ullathorne, Davis, C. Conolly, Bishop R. Salvado, Bishop R.W. Willson, Bishop F. Murphy, Bishop J.B.F. Pompallier, Bishop J.A. Goold.
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British and Foreign Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 02 May 1837-1895

66 items
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Letters received by Secretaries of the Aborigines Protection Society: Thomas Hodgkin (1837-1866), F.W. Chesson (1866-1888) and H.R. Fox-Bourne (1888-1909). They deal in particular with: the treatment of Aborigines in Queensland and Western Australia and of Maoris in New Zealand; charges made by Reverend J. Gribble in Western Australia; the visit of Maori chiefs to England in 1882 and 1884; the Pacific labour trade and the treatment of Pacific Islanders in Queensland; the 1875 Pacific Islanders Protection Bill; cases involving Jason, Carl and other labour vessels; the annexation of New Guinea in 1884; and land rights and race relations in Fiji and Tonga.
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Papers of the Phipps Hornby Family (as filmed by the AJCP), 1847-1903

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Papers 1847-1851 of Sir Phipps Hornby concerning British and French interests in the Pacific. Correspondents include William Miller and George Pritchard.
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Collections held by the National Maritime Museum London (as filmed by the AJCP), 1718-1957

384 items
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M3076-M3086: Catalogue Section 4: Personal Collections
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Records of the London Missionary Society (as filmed by the AJCP), 1796-1939

865 items
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As well as papers concerned with the religious activities of the missionaries, much of the material in this collection includes writings, and incidental observations, on exploration, anthropology, linguistics, trade and economics, education, publishing, agriculture and social conditions. Political events closely affected the mission stations and are documented in the Society's records, including the proclamation of a British Protectorate in eastern New Guinea in 1884.
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