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LEE, John Michael (fl 1956-1997)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0101 ICS 135

Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Title: LEE, John Michael (fl 1956-1997)

Date(s): c1955-c1978

Level of description: Collection (Fonds)

Extent: 2 boxes

Name of creator(s): Lee | John Michael | fl 1956-1997 | political scientist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

John Michael Lee's publications include Colonial Development and Good Government: a study of the ideas expressed by the British official classes in planning decolonization, 1939-1964 (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1967); African Armies and Civil Order (Instuitute for Strategic Studies, London, 1969) and (with Martin Petter) The Colonial Office, war and development policy, 1939-1945 (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London 1982).

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Research notes and papers of John Michael Lee on Africa, 1956-1967: subjects include statistics on African Officer Cadets training in Britain, 1953-1967; rates of pay for army and police in Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Zambia and Nigeria, 1960-1968; notes on the Nigerian officer cadre, 1960-1966; papers on the introduction of the Ministerial system in Uganda, 1955-1962; papers on Colonial Social Science Research Council Working Party on Colonial Elections, 1956; copies of official correspondence on Banyaruanda refugees, 1961-1962; copies of official correspondence on strike of students at the Nakawa Engineering School, Uganda, 1957-1958; documents on scheme for 300 scholarships, offered by the Government of Uganda, 1961-1962 and documents on the integration of the Department and Ministry of Education, Uganda, c1957-1962.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

By subject

Conditions governing access:

Open although advance notice should be given. Access to individual items may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.

Conditions governing reproduction:

A photocopying service is available, at the discretion of the ICS Library staff. Copies are supplied solely for research or private study. Requests to publish, or to quote from, original material should be submitted to the Information Resources Manager.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

See link to repository catalogue.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presumably deposited by Professor Lee, date unknown.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G), 2nd edition 2000. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Oct 2001


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Elections | Electoral systems | Internal politics
Engineering education | Higher science education
Government departments | Central government | Public administration | Government
Military education | Higher science education
Student unrest | Student sociology | Educational sociology | Educational sciences
Education

Personal names
Lee | John Michael | b 1932 | sociologist and historian

Corporate names
Colonial Social Science Research Council
Nakawa Engineering School, Uganda

Places
Ghana | West Africa | Africa
Kenya | East Africa
Malawi | Central Africa
Nigeria | West Africa | Africa
Sierra Leone | West Africa | Africa
Uganda | East Africa
Zambia | Southern Africa