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Institute of Commonwealth Studies

ROBINSON, Kenneth Ernest (b 1914)

IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0101 ICS 134

Held at: Institute of Commonwealth Studies

Title: ROBINSON, Kenneth Ernest (b 1914)

Date(s): 1974-1978

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 3 boxes and 1 folder

Name of creator(s): Robinson | Kenneth Ernest | b 1914 | historian
Survey of Library Resources for Commonwealth Studies

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Kenneth Ernest Robinson b 1914; educated at Monoux Grammar School, Walthamstow; Hertford College, Oxford; Beit Senior Scholar in Colonial History; Colonial Office, 1936-1948; Fellow of Nuffield College and Reader in Commonwealth Government, Oxford, 1948-1957; Director, Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Professor of Commonwealth Affairs, University. of London, 1957-1965; Vice-Chancellor, University of Hong Kong, 1965-1972; Hallsworth Research Fellow, University of Manchester, 1972-1974; Director, Commonwealth Studies Resources Survey, University of London, 1974-1976; Editor, Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies, 1961-1965.
Publications (with W. J. M. Mackenzie) Five Elections in Africa, 1960; (with A. F. Madden) Essays in Imperial Government presented to Margery Perham, 1963; The Dilemmas of Trusteeship, 1965; (with W. B. Hamilton & C. D. Goodwin) A Decade of the Commonwealth 1955-64 (USA), 1966.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Kenneth Robinson as Director of the Survey of Library Resources for Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 1974-1978; mainly comprising correspondence with institutions regarding their relevant holdings correspondents include the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, the University of London Library; the University of Durham; the University of Hull; the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex; the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Birkbeck College; the University of Cambridge; the Royal Commonwealth Society; the University of Oxford; the India Office Library and Records; working papers and drafts of final report.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Papers sorted by subject/institution

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 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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The source of acquisition by ICS is not known.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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Related material:

The ICS also holds papers on the proposed Commonwealth Library Centre, 1950 (ICS 68).

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

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