[1938]
Manuscript quotation from Rudyard Kipling's Letters of Travel (1920), “In due course the Sudanese will forget how warily their fathers had to walk in the Mahdi's time ...” etc. Enclosure found within CM's copy of British Rule and Rebellion (Blackwood, 1938).

[1947]
Page from land register for Sagia plot 100 (11.99 feddans), Nuri area, recorded by C.B. Metcalfe (CBM). Tabulated columns: original sixteen registered owners (and relationships); their heirs; farmers; number of productive date trees; dates. Secondary table records: farmers; owned area; rented area; number of productive date trees; other lands; other dates; supports (number).
Negative transparency

23 January 1948
Letter from B.A. Keen FRS, [Director of the East African Agriculture and Forestry Research Organisation], Nairobi, to CBM, responding to his account of his work on land inheritance and customs, and encouraging his engagement with the Colonial Office Land Tenure Panel. Enclosure found within CM's copy of Land Law and Custom in the Colonies (OUP, 1949).

March 1935
Newspaper cutting, Observer: “A model administration”, book review by Major C.S. Jarvis of The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan from Within (Faber, 1935). Enclosure found within CM's copy of the same work.

15 April 1982
Newspaper cutting, Natal Witness: “Gezira: the failure of a model project” by Robin Hallett. Enclosure found within CM's copy of Gezira, a Story of Development in the Sudan (Faber, 1959).

27 July 1990
Newspaper cutting, Weekender supplement to the Financial Gazette: “African dictators doing more harm”, Letter from America column by Ken Mafuka. Enclosure found within CM's copy of A Great Trusteeship (Caravel, 1958).

1953
Map of Cairo, colour, with inset section of Heliopolis. Drawn by Albino Caserta, Arts Graphiques et Publicitaires, 43 Bld Saad Zaghloul, Alexandria. Published by The Egyptian Trade Index / Middle East Publishing Co., 1953. Map cross-references to the Guide du Caire.
scale:   1:15,000
Size: 90.5 x 64.5 cm

[1950s]
Map of Sudan

[1950s]
Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, son of Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah al-Mahdi.

[1950s]
Saqiyah (water wheel), with boy and ox, Khartoum.

[1950s]
Habub (sand storm), Khartoum.

[1950s]
Mechanised harvester in wheat field at Kfouri Farm, Khartoum.

[1950s]
Shugadisc plough in operation, Gezira.

1951
Tractor with rotor cultivators.

[1950]
Saqiyah (water wheel), with man and two oxen, Ed Dueim.

[1950s]
Two camels, with hawdajs and male attendant.

[1950s]
Sudanese policeman.

[1950s]
Nile paddle steamer with barge.

[1950s]
Three children, Sudan.

1952
Mounted Camel Corps beside running track at Gedaref, Kassala Province.

[1952]
Mounted Camel Corps beside running track [at Gedaref], Kassala Province.

[1950s]
Jebel (hill) Kassala.

[1950s]
Tractor cultivating [?maize] crop, Gedaref.

[1950s]
Horse-drawn cartload of sorghum with driver, Gedaref.

[1950s]
Two Hadendowa men, one with kaskara sword.

[1950s]
Baggara sheikh.

[1950s]
Group of Baggara horsemen wearing chainmail.

[1950s]
Caravan of Baggara, riding cattle.

[1950s]
Dead crocodile, with two hunters, on a river bank [at Juba].

[1950s]
Man holding up a large Nile perch [at Juba].

[1950s]
Busy fishery, Juba.

[1950s]
Man holding a Nile tigerfish.

[1950s]
Boy with horse at the Roman Catholic Mission, Imatong.

1953
Nuer headman, with hair styled into a white horn.

[1950s]
Two Nuer men, each with headress, shield and spear.

[1950s]
Dinka man, with headress and beadwork on shoulders and arms.

[1950s]
Group of women grinding sorghum, Yei.

[1950s]
Group of children herders with their cattle among boulders.

[1950s]
Children on a bird scare platform.

1953
Forestry paddle steamer, loaded with timber and a truck.

[1950s]
Steamer and barge in the sudd.

1954
On trek. Mohamed Sihon [?driver] beside truck and with two children, one Sudanese one European.

1954
[Metcalfe] family group at Juba.

1954
Jonathan and Simon Metcalfe, standing on the bank of the Nile, Juba.

[1950s]
European woman with two children, and chickens, Juba.

[1950s]
Two European boys.

1953
Two Taposa men, their skin daubed with white patterns, wearing helmets.

[1954]
Line of Sudanese men, captioned “D.C.'s spies”, Kapoeta.

1954
Sudanese man, captioned “D.C. spy”, Kapoeta.

[1950s]
Man and woman on the road, Torit. Man is carrying a spear and a headrest, the woman a child and a pot on her head.

1940s
Group of Latuka men armed with spears, Torit.

1953
Procession of Latuka warriors, Torit.

1954
Latuka men cultivating, Torit.

1954
Old Latuka man, wearing hat and holding long switch, Torit.

1954
Latuka dancing at night, Torit.

[1950s]
Latuka cattle and boy, Torit.

1954
Latuka women grinding sorghum.

[1950s]
Two European men with rifles, hunting elephant (in distance).

1954
Herd of elephants, Torit.

[1950s]
“Ant head” [?termite nest pillar], Torit.

1954
Truck crossing a wooden bridge, Torit.

1953
Lafon village.

1954
Lafon village.

1953
Two Latuka men with red feathered headresses at Lafon.

1954
Women drying and grinding dura, Lafon.

1954 [?recte 1953]
Election gathering, Lafon.

1954 [?recte 1953]
Election speech, Lafon.

1954 [?recte 1953]
Post election dance, Lafon.

1954 [?recte 1953]
[Post] election party, Lafon.

1954 [?recte 1953]
Latuka post election dance, Lafon.

[1950s]
Shilluk herdsmen.

[1950s]
Boat at Nile bank, Malakal.

[1950s]
Group of four Shilluk men beside boat, by the Nile at Malakal.

[1950s]
Tozi village.

1950
Man ploughing with two oxen, Cairo.

1955
Al-Azhar mosque, Cairo.

1955
View of Cairo.

1955
Elizabeth Metcalfe, wife of CBM, with sons Jonathan and Simon at the pyramids, Cairo.

1955
Elizabeth Metcalfe, wife of CBM, with son Simon at the pyramids, Cairo.

1955
Horse-drawn funeral cortège in Alexandria.

[1955]
Jonathan and Simon Metcalfe in the wheelhouse of the “Star of Suez”.

1955
Canal, with loaded felucca approaching railway bridge .

[1962]
Group at the pyramids, Cairo.

1962
Elizabeth Metcalfe, wife of CBM, with sons Jonathan and Simon at Cairo Zoo.

[1953]
Policeman with bicycle.

1953
Congolese woman wearing dress with print design depicting Clement Attlee.

[1950s]
[?Billie-Ray] Nightingale.

[1950s]
Nairobi street scene.

1954
Kinangop.

1954
J.S. Nightingale, Kinangop.

1954
[Jonathan Metcalfe] seated on doorstep in street.

[1954]
Elizabeth Metcalfe, wife of CBM, with sons Jonathan and Simon.

1954
[Simon Metcalfe] seated on doorstep of shop.

[1950s]
Boabab tree by roadside near Beitbridge.

[1950s]
Family group.

1962
Simon, Jonathan and Deborah Metcalfe crossing the equator at sea.

[2010s]
69 colour photographic prints of slides SAD.1048/2/1-9, 11, 13-35, 40-70, 77, 80-81, 84, 89

[1952 x 1955]
Film (from cinefilms over several years) made by CBM (video digitised in 3 parts: A 51:44; B 66:42; C 33:24), without sound, including: (Part A) Nubian soldiers exercising (01:06); Port Sudan (03:08); Wadi Halfa D.C.'s house (06:35); Merowe D.C.'s house (07:55); Locust control measures at Shendi (10:52); Shendi Show (14:15); [Isle of Mann] T.T. racing (18:15); [Gold] panning operation (38:56); S.D.F. soldiers practising Anti-Aircraft fire with machine gun (45:20); Black-and-white Colobus monkey (45:35); formal visit (47:14); [Toposa] people, Loelli (50:12); (Part B) Truck mired in river (00:32); Military parades, including uniformed European women, and with Sudanese civilian taking the salute (04:16); Athletics races, Gedaref (08:52); European hunting group (10:30); Sudanese musicians (11:57); polo match (12:56); agricultural scheme (15:26); children's village school games (16:47); crop inspection (18:21); Kassala (18:40); [Gezira] scheme (30:20); Pomology Section, Nuri (35:08); Merowe Agricultural Show (36:10); crop inspection (44:00); sudd and views from steamer (62:27); Bor (63:41); (Part C) crowd, dancing (13:45); river cataract (14:55).
The film quality is poor.
VHS video tape; CD-ROM

1852-1960
Coins from Sudan, the Ottoman Empire and Egypt.
Digitised material for Coins from Sudan,Ottoman Empire and Egypt - 1852-1960 - SAD.1048/4/1-23

A short spear remains in the family's possession

January 1981
““The Last Despatch” General Gordon at Khartoum 15th December 1884”, by Terence Cuneo, RGI; with longer detached caption containing extracts from Gordon's journal. Colour print, reproduced and printed by James Haworth Ltd. Signed by the artist
Size: 79 x 58.5 cm

1954
Official first day cover (15 milliemes, 3 piastres, 5 piastres), marking Sudan self government, issued at Khartoum (no. 1240) to Metcalfe c/o the Ministry of Agriculture, Juba.

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


The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan : handbook of topographical intelligence (General Staff (Intelligence) Branch, Khartoum, 1940)
Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, v. 25 1893-94 (RCI, 1894)
Fire and Sword in the Sudan by R. Slatin Pasha (2nd edition; Arnold, 1896)
In the Country of the Blue Nile by C.F. Rey (Duckworth, 1927)
Alexandria. A guide by G.S.C. Andi ([1930s]
The Mahdi of Allah: the story of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed by R.A. Bermann (Putnam, 1931).
The East African Sportsman's Handbook by Copley and Mayer (East African Standard, [1934?])
Cairo and Environs (L & L Edition, [1936?])
British Rule and Rebellion by H.J. Simson (Blackwood, 1938)
The Nile: the life-story of a river by Emil Ludwig (Allen & Unwin, 1938)
Land Law and Custom in the Colonies by C.K. Meek (OUP, 1949)
A Short History of Islamic Egypt by W.N. Birks (Anglo Egyptian Bookshop, 1953)
The Yields of a Crop by Balls (Spon, 1953)
The Nile Waters Question (Ministry of Irrigation,1955)
A Great Trusteeship by M.A. Nigumi (Caravel, 1958)
Gezira, a Story of Development in the Sudan by Arthur Gaitskell (Faber, 1959)
The Colonial Reckoning by M. Perham (Collins, 1961)
25th anniversary issue, Sudanese colour magazine (Arabic)