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British Library of Political and Economic Science

Colonial Economic Research Committee, Colonial Research Committee, Colonial Social Science Research Council and Related Organisations


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0097 COLONIAL RESEARCH

Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science

Title: Colonial Economic Research Committee, Colonial Research Committee, Colonial Social Science Research Council and Related Organisations

Date(s): 1943-1963

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 259 files

Name of creator(s): Colonial Economic Research Committee, Colonial Research Committee, Colonial Social Science Research Council and associated bodies

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Colonial Research covers the papers relating to various councils and committees concerned with colonial research. The Colonial Social Science Research Council was established by the British Government at the end of World War Two to undertake research into the economic development of the colonies. The records held at the LSE appear to represent private sets of the Council's papers collected by its leading members, specifically Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders and Sir Arnold Plant. The Council was superceded by the Overseas Development Committee and various other councils and committees, represented by each section of the collection. Official Colonial Office records deposited at The National Archives may contain the Council's central archive.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The Colonial Research papers, 1943-1963, contain administrative papers relating to various colonial interests concerning Great Britain. The majority of the papers consist of minutes, agendas, correspondence and further memorandum, although there is also a section containing the general administrative papers of Postgraduate Studentships within the boundaries of Colonial Research.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The papers are arranged as follows:
1. Colonial Economic Research Committee.
2. Colonial Economic and Development Council.
3. Colonial Research Committee.
4. Colonial Economic Advisory Committee.
5.Overseas Research Council.
6. Postgraduate Studentships
7. Colonial Office correspondence mainly with Sir Arnold Plant.
8. Colonial Social Science Research Council.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Most items can be photocopied, subject to handling and copyright restrictions. No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Unknown

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Sources: Copied from LSE Archives CALM database.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Colonial countries | Political systems
Postgraduates | Graduates | Students
Research

Personal names
Plant | Sir | Arnold | 1898-1978 | Knight | Professor | economist
Saunders | Sir | Alexander Morris | Carr- | 1886-1966 | Knight | economist and educationist x Carr-Saunders | Sir | Alexander Morris

Corporate names
Colonial Economic Advisory Committee
Colonial Office
Colonial Office | Economic and Development Committee
Colonial Office | Research Council
Colonial Social Science Research Council

Places
Ghana | West Africa | Africa
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Nigeria | West Africa | Africa
Sierra Leone | West Africa | Africa