Also includes scholarly interpretive essays on the British Empire.
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Sessional papers fall into the following three categories:
Does not include debates (Hansard) or the House of Commons Journal.
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Ghana
Nigeria
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There are some valuable print primary sources related to colonial Africa in the library. These types of sources include correspondence, government administration records, statistical reports, colonizer travel diaries and missionary organization reports. UT Libraries has some of these collections scattered throughout the PCL stacks and in our off-campus storage facility. Here are some recommended ways and places of finding these valuable but sometimes hard to identify texts!
Browsing Stacks In Person
There are two sections in the PCL that have a concentrated collection of print books with colonial sources. Visit these sections and call number ranges to browse the collections. These sections contain a mix of primary and secondary sources, so you might want to flip through the book to determine if it is a collection of primary sources or secondary source/scholarship about the colonial era.
Call Number: 966.5-966.9 / PCL Floor 5, Section 5E
Call Number: DT 470-671 / PCL Floor 3, Section 3R
Also, view the library catalog records for print collections of primary sources in this series:
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UT Austin has access to the all bibliographies in all subject areas.
See the volume on African Studies, or search the whole collection via the search box at the top of the page by keyword/country.
There are entries on countries that have sections listing primary sources/colonial archival sources. For example, see this entry on Benin (Dahomey) and scroll down to see "Primary Sources" section. Search these sources directly in our library catalog.
See the Anthropology guide for help finding journal articles and other secondary source scholarship.
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