SEX AND GENDER
Manuscript Sources from the Public Record Office
Part 1: Empire and Suffrage (AR, CAB, CO and DO files)
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AR 1/38: Wallace Collection: Re-opening of Galleries closed because of suffragists, 1913-1914
AR 1/528: Wallace Collection: Descriptions and Photographs of Militant Suffragists; Correspondence from Home Office; Commissioner of Police, 1914
CAB 21/217: History of the British Empire Delegation and its work in Paris during the Peace Conference, 1921-1923
CAB 32/18: Nationality Committee. Imperial Conference, 1923
CAB 32/125: Records of the Committee on India, 1923 [folios 42-52 only]
CAB 134/430: Cabinet Steering Committee on International Organisations: Working Party on the Status of Women, papers for 1947 IOC(S.W.) 47 [part of volume only]
CAB 134/431: Cabinet Steering Committee on International Organisations: Working Party on the Status of Women, papers for 1948 IOC(S.W.) 48 [part of volume only]
CAB 134/432: Cabinet Steering Committee on International Organisations: Working Party on the Status of Women, papers for 1949 IOC(S.W.) 49 [part of volume only]
CAB 134/433: Cabinet Steering Committee on International Organisations: Working Party on the Status of Women, papers for 1950 IOC(S.W.) 50 [part of volume only]
CAB 134/434: Cabinet Steering Committee on International Organisations: Working Party on the Status of Women, papers for 1951 IOC(S.W.) 51 [part of volume only]
CAB 134/978: Cabinet Steering Committee on International Organisations: Working Party on the Status of Women, papers for 1952 IOC(S.W.) 52 [part of volume only]
CAB 134/979: Cabinet Steering Committee on International Organisations: Working Party on the Status of Women, papers for 1953 IOC(S.W.) 53 [part of volume only]
CAB 134/980: Cabinet Steering Committee on International Organisations: Working Party on the Status of Women, papers for 1954 IOC(S.W.) 54 [part of volume only]
CAB 134/981: Cabinet Steering Committee on International Organisations: Working Party on the Status of Women, papers for 1955 IOC(S.W.) 55 [part of volume only]
REEL 2
CO 37/277/3: Bermuda: Enfranchisement of Women, 1931
CO 37/282/5: Bermuda: Women's Organisations in Bermuda: Suffrage, Birth Control, Deputations; papers for 27 May 1935 - 19 February 1936
CO 37/293/20: Bermuda: Constitutional Reform: Changes in Bermuda since start of the War, including female suffrage; papers 16 February 1943 – 2 April 1944
CO 37/296/5: Bermuda: Constitutional change: The Women’s Suffrage Act, 1944; qualifications for the franchise reconsidered, 1944-1945
CO 54/892/12: Ceylon: Franchise for men; Donoughmore Report; papers for September 1928- January 1929
CO 54/894/13: Ceylon: Franchise for men and women; Constitutional reform: Indian franchise; papers for March 1929 - January 1930
CO 54/899/14 (I): Ceylon: Constitutional reform and Indian franchise, 1930 (Folder 1)
CO 54/899/14 (II): Ceylon: Constitutional reform and Indian franchise, 1930 (Folder 2)
CO 54/899/14 (III): Ceylon: Constitutional reform and Indian franchise, 1930 (Folder 3)
CO 54/978/7: Ceylon: Indian franchise, 1940-1941
REEL 3
CO 54/984/9: Ceylon: Indian franchise: revision of electoral registers, 1940, and electoral reform proposals; papers for 1941-1942
CO 54/988/2: Ceylon: Indians in Ceylon: question of franchise, rights, and status; proposed resumption of Indo-Ceylon negotiations; 1944-1946
CO 54/988/13: Ceylon: Education: new system; Education Policy, 1945-1946
CO 67/218/4: Cyprus: Advance report on venereal disease by the British Social Hygiene Council, 1926-1927
CO 67/220/5: Cyprus: Venereal disease; Report by British Social Hygiene Council delegation and appointment of specialist, 1927
CO 83/180/9: Fiji: Proposed extension of franchise to include women, 1927-1928
CO 83/185/22: Fiji: Municipal franchise in relation to Indian community, 1928
CO 83/187/3: Fiji: Demand for common franchise by Indian population, 1929
CO 83/189/10: Fiji: Municipal franchise for Indians, 1929-1931
CO 83/202/5: Fiji: Indian political situation with particular regard to the issue of the common franchise, 1933-1934
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CO 323/960/2: International agreement for treatment of venereal disease among seamen, December 1924
CO 323/964/5: Campaign against venereal disease in the colonies, 1926-1927
CO 323/970/5: Venereal disease: Memorandum from British Social Hygiene Council, May 1927, and other papers, 1927-1928
CO 323/978/7: Colonial Advisory Committee on Social Hygiene: recommendation to abolish brothels, 1927
CO 323/978/8: Nationality: Status of ‘locally’ naturalised British subjects who afterwards become naturalised in a foreign country, 1927
CO 323/998/8: Venereal disease: campaign by British Social Hygiene Council; expenditure estimates, 1927-1929
CO 323/1018/1: C E Anderson, assistant district officer, Tanganyika: charges of misconduct and concubinage with native women; notes of proceedings, 1928
REEL 5
CO 323/1067/1: Status of indigenous women and children: practice of female circumcision, 1929-1930
CO 323/1067/2: Status of indigenous women and children: East Africa, 1930
CO 323/1067/3: Status of indigenous women and children: East Africa, 1930
CO 323/1067/4: Status of indigenous women and children: East Africa, 1930
CO 323/1067/5: Status of indigenous women and children: West Africa, 1930
CO 323/1067/6: Status of indigenous women and children: reports on population, health and welfare, 1930
CO 323/1071/8: Slavery of Women, 1930-1931
CO 323/1083/4: Nationality of Married Women, 1930
CO 323/1083/10: British Social Hygiene Council; venereal disease; participation in International Colonial Exhibition; papers and grants, 1930
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CO 323/1083/13: Discipline under Colonial Regulations: Leung Tum-Sheung, second class interpreter in office of Secretary for Chinese Affairs, Hong Kong: receiving illicit payments from brothel keepers and prostitutes, 1930
CO 323/1111/17: Colonial Office: appointment of adviser on women’s affairs, 1930-1931
CO 323/1121/12: Labour: employment of women and children in East Africa, 1931
CO 323/1177/1: Deputation to Secretary of State from the National Union of Societies for Equal Citizenship to discuss questions affecting women, 1932
CO 323/1177/6: Nationality of persons born outside the Dominions, 1932
CO 323/1177/7: Nationality of persons born outside the Dominions: polygamous marriages, 1932-1933
CO 323/1177/15: Amendment of British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts of 1914-1922, Papers for 1932
CO 323/1177/20: British protected persons: question of enactment of Nationality Law in the Malay States, 1932-1933
CO 323/1177/21: Health and progress of native populations, 1932
CO 323/1320/4: Status and rights of women throughout the empire, especially Africa, papers for 1935
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CO 323/1323/15: Legal condition of women in British colonies: questionnaire from the Institute of Comparative Law, Paris, 1935
CO 323/1365/3: Missionaries: Roman Catholic – Training of Missionaries for Educational Work in the Colonies, 1936
CO 323/1365/10: Resolutions from unofficial bodies concerning women’s rights, 1936
CO 323/1426/4: Employment of women during the Night: Revised 1934 Convention, General papers, 1937-1938
CO 323/1426/5: Employment of women during the Night: Revised 1934 Convention, Papers regarding East Africa, 1937-1938
CO 323/1426/6: Employment of women during the Night: Revised 1934 Convention, Papers regarding West Africa, 1937-1938
CO 323/1426/7: Employment of women during the Night: Revised 1934 Convention, Papers regarding the Pacific and the Mediterranean, 1937-1938
CO 323/1426/8: Employment of women during the Night: Revised 1934 Convention, Papers regarding the West Indies, 1937-1938
CO 323/1426/9: Employment of women during the Night: Revised 1934 Convention: Eastern, 1937-1938
CO 323/1439/1: League of Nations enquiry into the status of women, 1937-1938
CO 323/1439/2: League of Nations enquiry into the status of women: women’s rights, 1937
CO 323/1525/4: Imperial Conference, 1937: Nationality: Status and rights of women; Six Point Group papers; interdepartmental committee on intra-imperial relations, 1937
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CO 323/1525/7: The Colonial Empire: Memorandum by the Secretary of State, 1937 (Folder 1)
CO 323/1525/8: The Colonial Empire: Memorandum by the Secretary of State, 1937 (Folder 2)
CO 323/1538/1: Employment of women during the Night: Revised 1934 Convention, Papers regarding East Africa, 1938
CO 323/1632/11: Status of women: League of Nations enquiry, 1939
CO 323/1632/12: Women’s rights: resolutions from unofficial bodies, 1939
CO 323/1694/2: Extension of the franchise to women in the colonies, 1939
CO 533/384/9: Kenya: Johnstone Kenyatta; Kikuyu Central Association; Native Lands Trust Bill; papers for 1929
CO 533/392/1: Kenya: Kikuyu Central Association: Political Activities, 1929
CO 533/392/10: Kenya: Operation on Kikuyu Girl (Circumcision), 1929
CO 533/392/11: Kenya: Operation on Kikuyu Girl. Parliamentary sub-file, 1929
CO 533/394/10: Kenya: Kikuyu Circumcision Ceremony, 1930. (Part I)
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CO 533/394/11: Kenya: Kikuyu Circumcision Ceremony, 1930. (Part II)
This second file includes material on the Conference of Governors of East African Dependencies (Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda) 1930; the Paper circulated by the Governor of Kenya; extracts from the East African Medical Journal, October 1929 and from the Medical Journal for 1926; also as an Appendix: Memorandum by Native Affairs Department, Kenya.
CO 533/395/6: Kenya: Native Lands Trust Bill: Johnstone Kenyatta, 1930
CO 533/398/11: Kenya: Kikuyu Unrest, 1930
CO 533/407/14: Kenya: Kikuyu Circumcision Ceremony, 1931
CO 533/418/2: Kenya: Kikuyu Circumcision Ceremony, 1932 (especially the Church of Scotland: Memorandum prepared by the Kikuyu Mission Council on Female Circumcision and related correspondence and papers)
CO 554/84/18: Report by Miss E S Fegan on the education of women in West Africa, 1930
CO 554/1578: Introduction of universal adult suffrage in Sierra Leone, 1958-1959
CO 733/169/10: Status of Women in Palestine, 1929
CO 733/239/5 (I): Palestine: Disturbances, 9 October to 22 December 1933: Disturbances at Jaffa, 27 October 1933 (Folder 1)
CO 733/239/5 (II): Palestine: Disturbances, 9 October to 22 December 1933, including correspondence of Inspector-General of Police to Chief Secretary, October 1933 (Folder 2)
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CO 733/239/5 (III): Palestine: Disturbances, 9 October to 22 December 1933 (Folder 3)
CO 733/346/8: Palestine: Disturbances in 1933, including Report of the Commissioner, 7 February 1934, Palestine Gazette Supplement; papers for 1933-1937
CO 733/482/1: Women of the Arab World by G P Dickson in ‘Arab World Review’, Volume 1, September 1947 [item 58 only]
CO 822/1133: Local Government in Kenya, 1954-1956
CO 822/1134: Development of Local Government in Tanganyika, 1954-1956
CO 822/1135: Development of Local Government in Zanzibar; includes 74 page booklet entitled “Report on Local Government Advancement in Zanzibar Township”, 1954
CO 822/1136: Witchcraft legislation in Uganda, 1956
CO 822/1137: Legislation for control of female circumcision in Kenya, 1956-1957
CO 822/1138: Social Welfare in Kenya, 1954-1956
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CO 822/1139: Advancement of African women in Kenya, 1954-1955
CO 822/1140: The Social Development Department of Tanganyika, 1955-1956
CO 822/1141: Community Development in Kenya, 1954
CO 822/1142: Community Development in Uganda: Establishment of a Training Centre, 1954-1955
CO 822/1152: African Education in Kenya, 1954-1956
CO 822/1153: Five-year (1957-1961) plan for African education in Tanganyika, 1956
CO 822/1472: Zanzibar: extension of the franchise to women, 1959
CO 847/5/6: Status of women in Africa, 1935
CO 847/6/8: Education of African communities, 1936
CO 847/6/11: Status of women in Africa, 1935
CO 847/9/5: Africa: Status of women in Africa, 1937
CO 847/9/9: Education in tropical Africa: memorandum by Sir F Lugard, 1937
CO 847/11/12: Africa: Status of women of native races, 1938
CO 847/14/11: Africa: Status of women of native races, 1939
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CO 859/123/5: Status of women in the colonies: customs, marriage and employment; Social Welfare Work in the Colonies, 1944
CO 859/123/6: Social Welfare Work in the Colonies: Far Eastern, 1944; paper on United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, 1944
CO 859/1593: Slavery, 1960
CO 859/1594: UN Convention on Slavery, papers for 1960-1962
CO 873/67: Wei-Hai-Wei: Venereal disease, incidence of, 1903
CO 873/218: Wei-Hai-Wei: Footbinding, 1906
CO 873/373: Wei-Hai-Wei: Footbinding, proposed proclamation, 1913
CO 873/505: Wei-Hai-Wei: Venereal disease, measures to control, 1917
CO 873/655: Wei-Hai-Wei: Footbinding, proclamation against, 1922
CO 936/43/1: UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1951
CO 956/537(2): Map of Empire, 1927
CO 1009/191: Fiji: Social Development Projects: Women’s interests, 1958-1959
CO 1009/759: Fiji: Social Development Projects: Women’s interests, 1957-1967
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CO 1009/760: Fiji: Social Development Projects: Women’s interests, 1959-1960
CO 1009/761: Fiji: Social Development Projects: Women’s interests, 1960-1962
CO 1015/1244: Slavery in the Middle East, 1956
CO 1031/466: Proposal to amend law so as to allow women to serve on juries in Trinidad, 1952
CO 1031/2140: Bahamas: votes for women, 1957-1959
CO 1031/3082: Bahamas: extension of the franchise to women, 1960-1961
CO 1031/3541: Bahamas: female suffrage movement, 1960-1961
CO 1032/98: Constitutional development: terminology; use and meaning of terms ‘full self-government’ and ‘independence’ in all references to the Constitutional Development of Colonial Territories, 1955-1956
CO 1032/103: Suffrage arrangements in Colonial Territories, 1954-1955
REEL 14
CO 1032/104: Suffrage arrangements in Colonial Territories, 1955
CO 1032/105: Suffrage arrangements in Colonial Territories, 1955-1957
CO 1032/106: Citizenship in Colonial Territories, 1955, 1956
REEL 15
CO 1032/156: Voting qualifications in the Colonies, 1957-1959
CO 1032/265: Suffrage arrangements in Colonial Territories, 1960-1962
DO 35/114/3: South West Africa: franchise qualifications, 1930-1936
DO 35/234/12: British Empire Development Association, 1930-1931
DO 35/349/10: Status of native women in Colonies and Protectorates, 1930
DO 35/350/1: Status of native women in Colonies and Protectorates, 1930-1935
DO 35/385/4: Divorce laws of the British Empire: jurisdiction of New Zealand courts, 1930
DO 35/402/12: Native Women's Restriction Act, Basutoland, 1930
DO 35/1208/570/1: Instructions given to Service personnel going to South Africa, Association with Native Women, 1943-1946
DO 35/1208/570/3: R.A.F. Marriages with Cape Coloured, 1943-1946
DO 35/1383: Minutes of Meetings of the Committee of officials on nationality questions set up by the meeting of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, papers for 1943-1946
DO 35/1384: Proposals for changes in the British Nationality Law: Joint memorandum by the Home Secretary and the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, papers for 1943-1946
DO 35/1385: Consultations with Dominions on proposals for reform of the British Nationality Law affecting the status of women, 1943-1946 (Folder 1)
DO 35/1386: Consultations with Dominions on proposals for reform of the British Nationality Law affecting the status of women, 1943-1946 (Folder 2)
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DO 35/1387: Consultations with Dominions on proposals for reform of the British Nationality Law affecting the status of women, 1943-1946 (Folder 3)
DO 35/4974: Overseas Migration Board, 1954: Views of the 1820 Memorial Settler's Association, Southern Africa and Views of the Society for Overseas Settlement of British Women, 1954
DO 35/7685: Franchise in the Colony of Southern Rhodesia, 1956-1959
DO 117/24: Canadian political crisis, 1926; position of women; women in New South Wales, Australia, 1926
DO 117/55: Indian question in South Africa, 1927
DO 117/75: Political situation in South Africa, 1927
DO 117/120: Imperial interests in South Africa, 1928
DO 119/92: Indians in South Africa; Natal: Indian traders in Natal and Swaziland; question of franchise, 1891-1897
REEL 17
DO 119/586: South Africa: Rhodesia. Reports of the Native Commissioners for 1900.
DO 119/587: South Africa: Rhodesia. Reports from Barotseland; legislation to curb prostitution; Ordinance regarding 'lung sickness' in cattle; and report on the 'lobolo' system in southern Rhodesia, 1900.
DO 119/588: South Africa: Rhodesia. Reports of the Native Commissioners for 1901.
DO 119/845: Basutoland Marriage Law; proclamation proposed to put law on proper footing, 1909
DO 119/998: South Africa: Joint Council memorandum on native franchise, 1928
REEL 18
DO 119/1004: Native labour: conditions of recruitment; information for International Colonial Institute at Brussels, 1928
DO 133/114: Review of Indian elections, 1951-1952 (four years after independence)
DO 133/115: Review of Indian elections, 1951-1952 (four years after independence)
DO 133/125: India: Union of Greater Rajasthan: Reports on tours, 22 November 1949 – 14 August 1952
DO 158/41: Franchise in Southern Rhodesia, 1960-1962
DO 190/6: Letters from E T Crutchley to Amery; also copy of Treasury memorandum on the cost of assisted migration under the Empire Settlement Act 1922; papers for 1929-1931
FO 93/1/473: Convention on the Political Rights of Women, signed in New York, 31 March 1953
FO 141/511/14083: Political views and activities of Egyptian Women, 1921-1928
FO 141/511/14086: Egypt: General Correspondence; Cairo, 1922; Political views and activities of Egyptian Women; Madame Saad Zaghlul Pasha; Appeal to Safia Zaghlul; papers for 1921-1928
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