Sir (William) Keith Hancock Papers.
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- Hancock, Sir William Keith (1898-1988) historian
TitleSir (William) Keith Hancock Papers.
Reference codeICS29
Date1886 - 1978
Scope and ContentThe papers of Sir (William) Keith Hancock relate to his chairmanship of the Buganda Constitutional Committee, 1954, and include correspondence, in particular with Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda, papers from a seminar on constitutional issues and the constitution in Uganda, background notes, papers of the Buganda Constitutional Committee and Steering Committee, minutes of the Namirembe Conference, papers about the Uganda Development Corporation and the Uganda National Congress, notes of visits to Ankole, Toro, Bunyoro-Kitara and Busoga and press cuttings.There are also correspondence and press cuttings relating to Hancock's books , "British War Economy" and "Problems of Social Policy" (History of the Second World War UK Civil Series Vol 1 & 2), 1949-1950; press cuttings of the Liberal Summer School, Oxford, July 1955; correspondence and other papers collated for his biography of Jan Smuts; notebooks with details for his autobiography; a black and white photograph, with supporting correspondence, of a bust of Hancock by the artist Alan Jervis and tapes of radio broadcasts made by him for ABC, mainly of an autobiographical theme but including views on arms control, the atomic bomb, Australia's defence treaties and relationship with the USA.
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Extent11 boxes
System of ArrangementThe papers are arranged into the following series:ICS29/1 The Buganda Papers.ICS29/2 "The British War Economy".ICS29/3 The Liberal Summer School, Oxford.ICS29/4 Smuts Biography Papers.ICS29/5 Hancock's Autobiography Notebooks.ICS29/6 Miscellaneous Items.
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