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TitleBryan Wooleston Langlands papers

Held atInstitute of Commonwealth Studies

Reference codeICS44

Date1974-1975, 1976-1983, 2024

Creator
- Langlands, Bryan Wooleston (1928-1989) geographerMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator
  Professor Bryan Wooleston Langlands (1928-1989) was Professor of Geography at the University of Ulster at Coleraine and was killed in the British Airways crash of BD092 at Kegsworth. He had spent much of his time in Uganda and accumulated a large library on various aspects of African historical geography.

Scope and ContentMemorandum by Prof Bryan W Langlands of his experiences while at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1974-1975 including account of the arrest and trial of Denis Cecil Hills for treason, also other incidents relating to President Idi Amin and the British community in Uganda, and on University politics at Makerere.

Also includes typescript (59 pages) "Two Days to Nemesis - being an account of the last weeks in Uganda", 1976 August, with an afterword of January 1983. Introduction by Dr. John Tyrrell, 2024.

Conditions governing accessAt least 24 hours notice before a research visit. Open for research.

Extent2 items

Finding aidsNone

The Langlands academic papers are held in the University College Cork archives. According to an email from Professor John Graham Tyrrell of Cork University College (April 2024), Tyrrell himself deposited them there.

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