1942 Jan 7-1945 Feb 15
Correspondence whilst D.C. in the Merowe/Dongola district concerning crop requisitioning and wartime food and price control; administrative and personnel matters; the progress of the war; financial matters; local government; education. Includes a guide written by Buchanan on April 1 1982 (797/4/1). Correspondents are officials and shaykhs within and outside the district, especially: W.F. Crawford (“Bill”), the Governor of Northern Province at Damer; Shaykh Zubayr Hamid al-Malik, the head of Dongola local administration; Nur Afandi `Uthman, sub ma`mur in Dongola; C.B. Tracey, W.F. Crawford's successor as Governor in 1944 ; E.J.N. Wallis (“Babs”), assistant Civil Secretary in Khartoum and later Governor; E.G. Evans, Deputy Governor of Northern Province, succeeded by E.A.V. de Candole in 1944, and R.G. Laing, Inspector of Agriculture at Borgeig

1951 Jul 10
Minutes of the local government terms of service committee

1951 Sep 18
“The rating system in England and Wales”, by "H.J."

1951?
“The financial relationship between the central government and the local government authorities”, by A.C. Beaton

1952 Mar 22
Handing-over note to Buchanan from A.C. Beaton: the Local Government Branch - history, finances, the Local Government Ordinance, organisation, progress, general principles

1952 Nov 26
“Local government finance”, by T.H.B. Mynors

1952 Dec 21
“Local government finance”, by Buchanan

1952
Extract from the report of the 1952 Erkowit Study Camp Group LV: “The state versus the citizen: the problem of freedom in the modern state”

1953 Apr 10-16
“A summary of my ideas on the problem of introducing effective organs of local government in the south, in view of the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of 1953”, with covering letter from J.P. Tripp to Buchanan

1953 Apr 15-29
Letter from E.H. Nightingale to Buchanan commenting on the summary above, and reply

1953 Nov-Dec
Local Government in the South (reprinted from the Southern Sudan Review)

1953
“The Local Government (Financial) Regulations”

1954 Mar 22
“The Local Government Officials Regulations” (see also under Printed Material, below)

1954 Apr 5
Various notes on questions arising out of the proposal to form negotiating bodies between the Local Government Councils Association and the Trade Unions

1954 Apr 20
"Local Government Officials Contracts"

1954 May 17
“Report on the meeting of Town Clerks at Coventry” : committee system research by the Royal Institute of Public Administration

1954 Oct 3
Model local orders concerned with begging, public health, markets and traders, animals, places of public resort, roads, parking, firearms, noise, etc. [see also under Printed Material below)

1954
Provisional constitution of the Association of Local Government Councils

[n.d.]
Draft of the Traditional Authorities Bill, by J.W. Robertson

[n.d.]
City of Norwich: the delegation of powers to the Highways and the Staff and Wages Committees

1948 Mar 30
Letter from J.W. Robertson, the Civil Secretary, concerning the future prospects of the members of the Sudan Political Service

1975 May 15-27
Correspondence of Nicole Grandin-Blanc and Buchanan concerning her thesis on the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium, with comments by Buchanan [see Printed Material, below]

1979 Oct 10
Buchanan's answers to "The human factor in British colonialism: the case of the Sudan", a questionaire sent out by the Sudanese government

1982 May 10
Buchanan's memoirs of his career, recalling his postings at Tokar (797/8/16-17), El Obeid (797/8/18-19), Dar Masalit (797/8/19-21), the Legal Department (797/8/21-22), Wadi Halfa (797/8/22-24), the Civil Secretariat (797/8/24-27), Merowe-Dongola (797/8/27-30), Ed Dueim (797/8/30-36), Northern Province (797/8/37-40), the Local Government Branch (797/8/40-42), and his later work in Uganda and Britain (797/8/42-47). Also two appendices: "Sudan Stories" (797/8/48-53), and a lecture on local government in the Sudan given at the Durham Sudan Historical Records Conference (797/8/54-56)

1941
"Local Government": lectures given to the School of Administration, Khartoum [2 copies]

1944 Dec 28
“The Dongola Reach” : broadcast, copied as appendix to Sudan Weekly News Letter No.52, 1944 Dec 28

1946 Sep 26
“An experiment in rural development” : lecture given at the Colonial Welfare Conference at the London School of Economics

1952 Nov 26
“The development of local government in the Sudan” : lecture given to the Cultural Centre

1953 Oct
“Local government in the Sudan since 1947” (extract from the Journal of African Administration, Vol.5 No.4)

1953 Nov 29
"Local government in the Sudan"

1953
"Summary of local government in the Sudan since 1947 "

1954
Two drafts of an address on local government to be given at the Cultural Centre, Khartoum

1956
"Local government in the Sudan": an address to Makerere College, Uganda

[n.d.]
"Interdependence of tribal leaders and local councils"

[n.d.]
"Summarized results of policy of devolution"

[n.d.]
"Extract. The twentieth century and after. 1877 -1950 July. The Cold War and the colonies. A critique of the Colombo Plan" by Elspeth Huxley

1954 Jan 11
"Memorandum on local government policy", by R.G. McComas

1954 Feb 4
“Powers of a town clerk, Coventry's example” (The Times)

[n.d.]
"Extract from The Local Government Chronicle, No.4450, p.402" on local government and planning

[n.d.]
“Local government in the Sudan”, by E.A. Balfour

[n.d.]
“Development of the local government system in France”, by R.H. McCall

[n.d.]
“Framework of local government structure in France”, by R.H. McCall

[n.d.]
“French local government”, by R.H. McCall

[n.d.]
“Local government in Norway”

[n.d.]
“Irish local government in crisis”

[n.d.]
“The problems of the committee system in local government”, by I.L. Gowan [printed in Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review Vol.117 No.38 pp.606-9; see under Printed Material below]

1882 Sep 19-1884 Dec 17
Four letters home from Charles Davidson, a soldier in the 74th Regiment during the Egyptian Campaign, containing army news and reports of military operations and battles [copies of transcripts]

c.1953
Humourous items:

1969
Proclamations made by Colonel Numairi during the coup [extract from book]

1948
“Destiny of the Sudan” (The Times)

Marshall, A.H.: Report on Local Government in the Sudan, 1949

Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue

Beaton, A.C.: The inspection of council accounts (1951)
Ferguson, H.S., Equatoria Province (1948)
Grandin-Blanc, N., “Le Soudan Nilotique et son Administration coloniale Britannique (1898-1956). Eléments d'interprtation socio-historique d'une expérience coloniale” (Ph.D. thesis, Paris 1975)
Growth of a Nation: The Story of the Sudan (London, H.M.S.O. [duplicate] 1953)
Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review, Vol.117, No. 38 (1953)
Consolidated Loans Regulations (Sudan Government: 1952)
Legislative Supplement to Sudan Government Gazette No. 847 (1952)
The Local Government Contracts Regulations (Sudan Government: n.d.)
The Local Government Officials Regulations [see also under Official Papers, (a), above] (1954)
The Local Government Ordinance (Extract from Legislative Supplement to Sudan Government Gazette No. 832) (1951)
Local Government Regulations for Council Procedure (1952)
Memorandum: general administrative policy (Khartoum, 1922; repr. 1926)
Model local orders [see also under Official Papers, (a), above] (1954)