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JOURNAL OF THE RHODESIAN STUDY CIRCLE: NO. 284 March 2021

  • Editorial
  • Membership News and Information
  • RSC Virtual Conference and Competitions
  • Matters Arising
  • Members Ask
  • Members Share
  • Reports of RSC Meetings:
  • North America Virtual (7/11/2020)
  • Manchester Virtual (14/11/2020) 
  • Melbourne Virtual (5/12/2020) 
  • Manchester Virtual (12/12/2020) 
  • Cape Town (14/11/2020) 
  • South West England Virtual (3/12/2020) 
  • North America Virtual (9/1/2021) 
  • Manchester Virtual (16/1/2021) 
  • More Chinde Postcards—Mark Ladd 
  • A selection of favourite registered covers –
    Mark Thomas 
  • The Paul Graetz Expeditions – Derek Lambert 
  • The 1897 BCA Issue – Colin Fraser 
  • More on the Rhodesia Admiral Postal Stationery
    Cards – Andrew Wilkie 
  • Revenue documents with history –
    Dan Judson and John Blakiston – The siege and
    relief of Mazoe 1896 – Mike Barter 
  • Harry Van Jaarsvelt – Postmaster of Salisbury 
  • Making connections – Mark Thomas 
  • Post Offices in Zimbabwe and Zambia – Rob Burrett
  • More on the Besançon Rhodesia Sale of Corinphila –
    Colin Hoffman and Sean Burke 
  • 1932 Northbound First Flights to off-line
    Destinations within Africa – Christopher Cooksey 
  • A brief history of Waterlows – Colin Hoffman 
  • A confusing tale of too many Gwaais – Rob Burrett 
  • A half-penny for your thoughts – Brian Coop 
  • Some postal examples of the BSAC 1909-1911
    Surcharges – Patrick Flanagan 
  • Artists of Waddington Printed Malawi and
    Zambia Issues – Tony Plumbe 
  • Aspects of the 1917 Livingstone Provisionals –
    Patrick Flanagan 
  • “100 Years Surveying and Mapping”— Centenary
    Noted on Bulawayo Slogan Cancel – David Frye 
  • The 1940 BSAC Golden Jubilee Specimens –
    Dave Cooper 
  • Telegraph Forms of the Bechuanalands—
    Military, Official and Civilian – Peter Thy 
  • Request for Booklets, Stickers, and Calendar Leaves
    Malaŵi by Surface Mail – David Frye 
  • The Postmarks and Post Offices of Post-Federation
    Rhodesia—Eryl Worton 
  • 1970 Definitive issue SG 441 2½c multi-coloured –
    Dave Cooper 

JOURNAL OF THE RHODESIAN STUDY CIRCLE: NO. 283 December 2020

  • Editorial                                                                                        
  • From the Chairman of the RSC                                                                    
  • Membership News and Information                         
  • RSC Competitions – Report of the Judges                         
  • Matters Arising                                                                            
  • Members Ask                                                                               
  • Members Share         
  • Reports of Virtual Meetings:
  • Melbourne (26/9/2020) 470
  • Manchester (17/10/2020) 473
  • Plate 1, 1R, and the Waxed Moustache Reconsidered; an Electroplate? – Stephen Reah-Johnson and David Spivack      
  • BSAC Official Mail – Paul Peggie, Keith Harrop and Patrick Flanagan     
  • The KGVI Easter Charity Labels – varieties and errors – Narendhra Morar     
  • The T.R.S. Liemba – Peter Wingent      
  • Some notes on Rhodesian Airgraphs – Hugh Amoore         
  • “INSPECTED” Auxiliary Markings on Mid-1990’s Intra-Lusaka Letter – David Frye  
  • The Great Adventure – Trooper Frank Mallett     
  • Iron Mine Hill – Andrew Wilson     
  • The Besançon Rhodesia Sale – the Doublehead lots – Bob Looker     
  • Some Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia archival material and photographs – John and Mark Taylor      
  • A Methodology to Analyse the BSAC Admiral Listings in the Stanley Gibbons Part 1 Catalogue – David Spivack     
  • Stanley Gibbons 2021 ‘Part 1’ BSAC Admiral
  • Catalogue Revisions – Summary of Listing Changes – David Spivack    
  • The Great Zimbabwe Myth(s) – Narendhra Morar  
  • Insufficiently prepaid airmail letters from Southern Rhodesia in the 1930’s – Peter Wingent     
  • A well-travelled cover – Mark Ladd     
  • Melland – the Champagne lifestyle of N.E. Rhodesia – Adam Goulding  

JOURNAL OF THE RHODESIAN STUDY CIRCLE: NO. 282 October 2020

    • Editorial
    • Membership News and Information
    • Obituary: Joyce Pollard
    • Matters Arising
    • Members Ask
    • Members Share
    • Reports of Virtual Meetings:
      • Manchester (22/8/2020)
      • Manchester (12/9/2020)
    • The Besançon Rhodesia Admiral Sale – David Spivack
    • The Tanganyika Flotilla – Derek Lambert and Jefferson Ritson
    • The Rhodesia Admiral Colour Trials – Stephen Reah-Johnson
    • A Paris Missionary Society 1930 postal stationery card – Tony Banks
    • Prospector’s Licences – Patrick Flanagan
    • Stanley Gibbons BSAC Admiral Catalogue Listing 2021 Update – David Spivack
    • The Rhodesia Admirals – a Baker’s Dozen – David Spivack
    • Up the River to the Lake – A pictorial review from the African Lakes Corporation Archives -Stuart Ross
    • The postcards of Dr Georges Reutter – Sean Burke
    • Rhodesia – The Arms Issues – Some things that intrigue me – Colin Hoffman
    • British Central Africa Provisional 1d on 3/- 1898 The First Setting – Brian Coop
    • The Church of Sweden Mission in Southern Rhodesia – Mark Loomis
    • Intriguing BCA Official Cover to the Royal Geographical Society – Tony Plumbe
    • Seen on EBay
    • Southern Rhodesian Red Cross Message Form – Ken Scudder
    • The Rhodesia ‘Small Arms’ Postal Stationery Cards – Andrew Wilkie
    • Frédéric Christol: Artist and Evangelist (1850-1933) – Ian Menzies

JOURNAL OF THE RHODESIAN STUDY CIRCLE: NO. 281 September 2020

 

  • Editorial
  • Membership News and Information
  • Obituaries: Wilfried Schrader, Otto Peetoom
  • Matters Arising
  • Members Ask
  • Members Share
  • Reports of Virtual Meetings:
    • Melbourne (20/6/2020)
    • Melbourne (21/6/2020)
    • Manchester (27/6/2020)
    • North America (18/7/2020)
    • Manchester (25/7/2020)
    • Melbourne (8/8/2020)
    • Melbourne (9/8/2020)
  • Gabriel Ellison Zambian Stamp Designer 1930-2017 – Allan Rendle
  • More Gabriel Ellison Artwork – Patrick Flanagan
  • The Halfpenny Doublehead Plates: Plate I Revisited – Bob Looker
  • The Wedge Conundrum – Bob Looker
  • Postal Sanctions – Mike Hughes
  • Early Missionary Mail from British Central Africa – Paul Peggie
  • Postal History from A.J. Storey –
  • British Central Africa – John Shawley
  • Rhodesian Trivia – Brian Trotter
  • Heavyweight postal history from Zambia’s Northern Province – Anita McCullough
  • Postmarks of Northern Rhodesia and Zambia beginning with the letter ‘M’ – Mark Thomas
  • On British Central Africa’s Two Pence Registration Envelope – Peter Thy
  • In the footsteps of David Livingstone – Chris Moffat
  • The 1896 overprints of the 1892 high values – Adrian de Bourbon
  • Another look at Southern Rhodesia George VI Tobacco Tax – Dave Cooper
  • Fellows of the RSC
  • Balla Balla, Filabusi Siding and Sinkukwe Spur – Rob Burrett
  • Members of forty years or more

 

Conversations with Swiss Missionaries in Barotseland 1940-1972

Rhodesian Study Circle

Conversations with Swiss Missionaries in Barotseland 1940-1972 (with photographs and watercolours by Claire Bornand)

A new publication of the RSC by member Ian Menzies (who resides in Geneva and farms cattle in Zimbabwe). This is a much smaller publication than recent Memoirs;  it is about a rather intimate encounter with one of those brave women who journeyed to Central Africa as missionaries in the middle of the 20th Century and is entitled: Conversations with Swiss Missionaries in Barotseland 1940-1972.

Conversations with Swiss missionaries’ is the story of a young nurse – Claire Bornand –  from Geneva who sets out for Barotseland in 1940. She travels through Vichy France, through post Civil War Spain and eventually to her station on the Upper Zambezi. Many of her veteran colleagues are ill or exhausted and she soon finds herself taking responsibility for a clinic and treating thousands of patients. In her diary, she records Lozi customs, she photographs scenes on the Zambezi and botanical observations in her delightful series of watercolours. The 40 page book is based on interviews, documents bequeathed to the Geneva Ethnographic Museum and Paris DEFAP missionary archives.

Details

  • Title: Conversations with Swiss Missionaries in Barotseland 1940-1972 
  • Author: Ian Menzies
  • Available from late July, 2020.
  • Prices:
    • PDF – N/A
    • Print Copy (Members Only) – UK £8 including P&H; Europe £10 including P&H; International £12 including P&H
    • Print Copy (Non-Members) – Add £2 to the above

To place an order, complete the ORDER FORM.

Malawi Red Cross Society

Malawi Red Cross Society

Lilongwe

In 1966, the Malawi government passed Act 51 of Parliament establishing the Malawi Red Cross Society (MRCS) as a voluntary society, allowing it the right to use the protected Red Cross and Red Crescent emblems in conformity with Geneva Conventions. It became a member of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in 1971.

MRCS has 141 staff members and a total of  30,000 volunteers with 33 Divisions in all the 3 regions of Malawi. Its Headquarters is in Area 14, in Lilongwe.

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