Rhodesian and South African papers of Hugh Maude

Rhodesian and South African papers, 1960-1972. This large collection, as yet unsorted, is boxed in no particular order. The contents include (numbers in brackets refer to box numbers):
* correspondence re. Rhodesian politics with Soref, Pakenham and Riddell 1967-1969, (I, III, IV, VI, VII, IX, X);
* Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation transcripts of ""World Survey"" 1968-1975 (I, III, V, X);
* Monday Club pamphlets and ephemera (I);
* transcript of an address in 1932 by Major Walter Howard, DSO, on the occupation of Matabeleland, in 29 pp, (VI);
* miscellaneous typescript articles on the Rhodesian constitutional position (VI);
* correspondence with Lord Vernon (VIII);
* notebooks from visits to South Africa, Basutoland and Kenya 1962 (VIII);
* travel diaries, mainly South African and Rhodesian 1963-1972 (VII, IX, X);
* mimeographed copy of Rhodesia Condemns by A J Peck (since published by Three Sisters Press, Salisbury 1967).

Maude was a captain in the British army and was introduced to friends in Rhodesia as having been one of Churchill's wartime secretaries. Maude developed an interest in Southern Africa in 1960 when, for reasons of health, he began his annual visits to Rhodesia and South Africa. With his political conservatism he found much in both countries with which to admire and sympathise. He maintained a voluminous correspondence with various people in the Rhodesian administration as well as with British sympathisers of Ian Smith's government. In particular he corresponded with Harold Soref, Conservative MP and Chairman of the Monday Club's African Group, and with RB Pakeham and K J Riddell, both senior officials in the Rhodesian Ministry of Information. He also kept detailed diaries of his visits.

This collection is unsorted and boxed in no particular order.

Records are open to the public, subject to the overriding provisions of relevant legislation, including data protection laws.

Maude was a captain in the British army and was introduced to friends in Rhodesia as having been one of Churchill's wartime secretaries. Maude developed an interest in Southern Africa in 1960 when, for reasons of health, he began his annual visits to Rhodesia and South Africa. With his political conservatism he found much in both countries with which to admire and sympathise. He maintained a voluminous correspondence with various people in the Rhodesian administration as well as with British sympathisers of Ian Smith's government. In particular he corresponded with Harold Soref, Conservative MP and Chairman of the Monday Club's African Group, and with RB Pakeham and K J Riddell, both senior officials in the Rhodesian Ministry of Information. He also kept detailed diaries of his visits.

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Further accruals are not expected.

Daniel McNeil, '"The rivers of Zimbabwe will run red with blood": Enoch Powell and the Post-Imperial Nostalgia of the Monday Club', Journal of Southern African Studies, 37:4 (2011), 731-745.

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