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Archives Direct
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Description
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Papers issued by the British Government between c.1820-1970 they cover British involvement in North Africa and the Middle East: from the nineteenth century Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. They arose out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Documents range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties and are useful for political, social and economic research. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to heads of British missions abroad. From coastal trading in the early nineteenth century, through the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa, to the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence, the documents in Confidential Print: Africa cover the whole of the modern period of European colonization of the continent. They are essential sources for the study of African history and the understanding of Africa today. ● Cross search all subscribed primary resources from Adam Matthew via AM Explorer
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Advisory note
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Alternative link to Confidential Print Africa in case of problems with the main link
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