University of Birmingham Staff Papers: Papers of Marion Johnson

Publications, offprints of articles and chapters from books and periodicals relating to many aspects of West African history and culture including the slave trade, textiles, trade, economy, 1970-1986; photographs and slides of West Africans at work, crafts, produce, people, places, craftsmen, architecture; card indexes relating to imported cloths, the slave trade, West African history, trade and economy; notebooks, 1965-1980s, containing notes on aspects of West African history, society and economy; proof copies of publications; correspondence, 1970s-1980s; maps of West Africa; notes taken at conferences, 1970s; research papers, assorted photocopied printed material and a collection of transcripts of oral history interviews from 1975 relating to pre-colonial times and trade; research materials on West African trade, especially cloth and textiles, cloth currencies, slaves and timber, 1970s.

Marion Johnson was a temporary lecturer at the Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham, 1969-1970, then Honorary Fellow to 1988.

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For further reading about the University of Birmingham see: Eric Ives, Diane Drummond, Leonard Schwarz The First Civic University: Birmingham 1880-1980 An Introductory History ( The University of University of Birmingham Press. 2000 ).

For further reading about the University of Birmingham see: Eric Ives, Diane Drummond, Leonard Schwarz The First Civic University: Birmingham 1880-1980 An Introductory History ( The University of University of Birmingham Press. 2000 ).

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This collection was deposited, c 1989-90.

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