Guide to the Records of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1979
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2018
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Institute of Commonwealth Studies
- Title
- Collections of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1926 - 1934
- Collection Number
- M1979
- Extent
- 21 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Papers 1926-1934 of Sir Stephen Tallents, Secretary of the Empire Marketing Board. Main correspondents are A.C.D. Rivett and F.L. McDougall.
Papers of Edward M. H. Lloyd comprising photographs, letter-diaries and notes relating to an official mission to Java and Malaya, led by W.G.A. Ormsby Gore, in 1928.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the Senate House Library, University of London.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the Senate House Library, University of London and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Press cuttings from London newspapers re. the proposed colonial tour, 1905, Senate House Library, University of London. (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-903774413)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1986 (AJCP Reels: M1979). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Institute of Commonwealth Studies. Senate House Library, University of London, England. For further information see the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library at the University of London (https://www.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/research-collections/commonwealth-studies).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn7886972] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Related Materials
The papers of Richard Jebb have been listed separately (https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2298912).
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2018. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Pieces that were not filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project have not been included in this Finding Aid.
Subjects
Great Britain. Empire Marketing Board; Java: photographs; Lloyd, Edward M.H.; Malaya; McDougall, F.L.; Ormsby-Gore, William G.A., 4th Baron Harlech; Rivett, Sir A.C. David; Tallents, Sir Stephen
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 248, p. 92.
Biographical / Historical
The Institute was founded in 1949 within the University of London to promote advanced study of the Commonwealth and Empire.
Item Descriptions
Fonds. Tallents Papers, 1926 - 1935
9 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Sir Stephen Tallents
Educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. Official in Board of Trade 1909-1915, Ministry of Munitions 1915-1916, Ministry of Food 1918. British Commissioner for Baltic Provinces 1919-1920. Imperial Secretary, Northern Ireland 1922-1926. Secretary, Empire Marketing Board 1926-1933. Public Relations Officer, G.P.O. 1933-1935. Controller (Public Relations) B.B.C. 1935-1940. Principal Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Town and Country Planning 1943-1946.
Empire Marketing Board; preliminary meeting minutes (9 pp.), 1926 (File File 2)
1 itemIncludes cable from Secretary of State (L. Amery) to Dominion Governments, 21 May 1926, concerning establishment of Empire Marketing Board.
Empire Marketing Board and Imperial Economic Committee Correspondence, 1926 (File File 3)
Concerns relations between the Board and the Imperial Economic Committtee. Correspondents include Tallents, F.L. McDougall, W. Ormsby-Gore, Sir Maurice Hankey and J. Stephenson. There are also typescripts by McDougall, 'The Imperial Economic Committee and the Empire Marketing Board' (July 1926) and Tallents, 'The problem of Imperial economic development' (Sept. 1926).
(c. 100 pp.)
1930 Imperial Conference and 1931 E.M.B. Reconstitution Committee (File File 4)
Confidential notes prepared by Tallents for Lunn, February - March 1931; copies of correspondence between J.H. Thomas and F.W. Pethick Lawrence, February - March 1931 The papers include report of the Empire Marketing Board Reconstitution Committee (Chairman: W. Lunn), 21 May 1931; confidential notes prepared by Tallents for Lunn, Feb. - March 1931; copies of correspondence between J.H. Thomas and F.W. Pethick Lawrence, Feb. - March 1931; notes on reconstruction of Empire Marketing Board, extracts from publications on Imperial economic consultation; paper entitled 'The Imperial Conference and the Empire Marketing Board'; notes of a meeting with J.H. Thomas concerning the report of the Constitution Committee, 9 June 1931.
(60 pp.)
Opposition to E.M.B. and 1931 Economy Committee (File File 5)
The papers include a Cabinet Paper by J.H. Thomas on the recommendations of the Committee on National Expenditure relating to the Empire Marketing Board, Aug. 1931; minute by Sir Edward Harding on the Cabinet Paper, 10 Aug. 1931; and notes by Tallents on the case for the Board, 12 Aug. 1931. The appendices to the paper includes an extract from an article by A.C.D. Rivett and a letter from the Australian Association of British Manufacturers, 22 June 1931.
(c. 100 pp.)
Imperial Committee on Economic Consultation and Cooperation, 1933 (File File 7)
5 items
The breakup of the Empire Marketing Board, 1933 (File File 8)
Correspondence concerning the abolition of the Board and the transfer of some of its functions to the Imperial Institute, June-Aug. 1933. Correspondents include L.S. Amery, Sir Clive Wigram, Sir William Furse, J.W. Munro, E. Eddison and J.H. Thomas. There are also notes by Tallents on the Cabinet Paper by J.H. Thomas of 14 June 1933 and the negotiations concerning the abolition, 14 June-27 July 1933.
(63 pp.)
Empire Marketing Board Staff, 1929 - 1935 (File File 9)
7 itemsFilmed selectively.
A.C.D. Rivett, 1931 - 1934 (File File 10)
Correspondence between Tallents and A.C.D. Rivett, Chief Executive Officer of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, 1931-1933. Subjects include reconstruction of Empire Marketing Board, Empire agricultural economic surveys, E.M.B. publicity in Australia, reductions in expenditure by Board, British and Australian politics, F.L. McDougall, entomological research in Australia, work of C.S.I.R., economic conditions in Australia, inter-Imperial machinery, M. MacDonald, A.E.V. Richardson, P. Cunliffe-Lister, comparison of E.M.B. Research stations with C.S.I.R. divisions, E.M.B. films and publications, criticisms of R.J. Tillyard, Tallents' impressions of 1933 Imperial Economic Conference at Ottowa. There are some letters of F.L. McDougall enclosing letters from Rivett. There is also a typescript by Rivett, 'Applied science in Empire development: mutual aid by teamwork, an opportunity for the Ottawa Conference', 7 March 1932, and his article 'The Empire Marketing Board; a tribute, a lament and a hope', Australian Rhodes Review (March 1934), pp. 9-19.
(c. 100 pp.)
Empire Marketing Board, 1933 (File File 11)
Correspondence, mainly concerning the abolition of the Empire Marketing Board, including letters from staff, 1933. Correspondents include A.C.D. Rivett, Lord Bledisloe (Wellington), M. MacDonald, Sir Edward Harding, J.H. Thomas, P. Cunliffe-Lister, L.S. Amery and Sir Kingsley Wood.
(53 pp.)
Fonds. Lloyd Papers, 9 April 1928 - 4 June 1928
12 itemsFilmed selectively.
Biographical / Historical
Edward Mayor Hastings Lloyd.
Educated at Rugby and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Official in War Office 1914-1917, Ministry of Food 1917-1919, League of Nations Secretariat 1919-1921. Assistant Secretary, Empire Marketing Board 1926-1933. Secretary, Market Supply Committee 1933-1936, Permanent Under Secretary, Ministry of Food 1947-1953. Secretary of mission to Malaya, Ceylon and Java led by Parliamentary Under Secretary, Colonial Office, W.G.A. Ormsby Gore in 1928.
Letter-diary of Lloyd, 9 April 1928 - 19 April 1928 (File 4.11)
Picnic given by Sultan of Perak; visit to Malay College at Kuala Lumpur; travels in Malaya; visits to plantations; schools; Rubber Institute; Agriculture Departments. (3 pp., typescript)
Letter-diary of Lloyd, 20 April 1928 - 26 April 1928 (File 4.12)
Travels in Malaya; social functions; demonstration of blow-piping; Government House, Singapore. (2 pp., typescript)
Letter-diary of Lloyd, 27 April 1928 - 2 May 1928 (File 4.13)
Visit to tin-smelting works at Pulau Brani; College of Medicine; visit to Malacca; rubber factory. (2 pp., typescript)
Letter-diary of Lloyd, 2 May 1928 - 15 May 1928 (File 4.14)
Meeting of pineapple shippers and canners; visit to Johore; arrival at Batavia; agricultural experiment stations; quinine estates; tea estates; first direct telephone call from Java to London; medical research laboratories. (7 pp., manuscript, very faint)
Letter-diary of Lloyd, 16 May 1928 - 20 May 1928 (File 4.15)
Travels in Java; visit to Soerakartja; temples. (2 pp., typescript)