This important new guide is an introduction to the records of British government departments responsible for the administration of colonial affairs, and now held in The National Archives of the United Kingdom. It covers the period from about 1801 to 1966.

It has been planned as a user-friendly guide concentrating on the organisation of the records, the information they are likely to provide and how to use the contemporary finding aids. It also provides an outline of the expansion of the British empire during the period, and discusses the organisation of colonial governments.

"An indispensable guide and source of invaluable historical detail."
Wm. Roger Louis, Kerr Professor of English History and Culture, University of Texas at Austin.

"Dr Banton's guide can be enthusiastically recommended to new researchers planning to use the TNA, to the many graduate students (and their supervisors) engaged in studying aspects of colonial empire, and to seasoned scholars who may find in these pages new insights and perhaps even some new sources."
David Killingray, Goldsmiths, University of London, The Round Table vol. 98, no. 4, October 2009

Mandy Banton

Price: £20.00 (+ £2.00 postage)