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Field name | Value |
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Title | Sedgwick Migration Scrapbook 27: South Africa and Australia; The Navy and Military Emigration League; The War Immigrant |
Date | 1912-1920 |
Document Type | Newspaper; Correspondence; Pamphlet |
Publisher Information | Charles Straker and Sons Ltd., London |
Reference | RCMS 31/2/350-371, Box 7, Volume 2, Folder 14 |
Library / Archive | Cambridge University Library |
Collection Name | Thomas E. Sedgwick's Migration Scrapbooks, 1910-1914 |
Description | Items refer to concerns that young British boys are being deterred from emigrating as a result of detrimental rumours and depictions of the colonies through various forms of the media. Newspaper articles and correspondence also refer to the development and British settlements in Africa. Included are copies of pamphlets such as 'Our Greatest Need' comprising a series of reprinted articles by Thomas Edward Sedgwick published in Brisbane, June 1920 and 'Colonization on the Equator', produced by the British East Africa Corporation Ltd. |
Biographical Note / History | In 1911 Thomas Edward Sedgwick organised for a group of 50 boys to be sent from England to New Zealand on board the S.S. Authentic before the outbreak of the First World War. They were sent as part of an experiment to ascertain whether young British boys might help alleviate a shortage of farm labourers in New Zealand and offer a solution to the declining levels of employment opportunities in the crowded British cities. They were trained in all aspects of farming life, and the wages they earnt were paid to the Labour Department while the boys were awarded weekly pocket money. |
Theme(s) | Motives for Emigration; Politics, Legislation and Governance; Responses to Immigration |
Country (from) | Great Britain; Holland |
Country (to) | New Zealand; Australia; Canada; Africa; South Africa |
Places | Uganda; Zimbabwe; Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, South Africa; Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Cairo, Egypt; Sudan; Holland; Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Ports | Sydney, New South Wales, Melbourne, Victoria, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
Nationality | English; European; Dutch |
People | Sedgwick, Thomas Edward; Leggett, E H M; Smartt, Sir Thomas; Lepper, G H |
Keywords | emigration, apprenticeship, emigration scheme, shipping, agriculture, farming, labour, employment, government, farm school, colony conditions, settlement, application, livestock, railway, expansion, animals, history, statistics, population, mortality rate, birth, commonwealth, export, freight, defence, push factors, navy, science, eligibility, children, family, women, female emigration, emigrant selection, skilled migration, marriage, tobacco, steamboat, racism, regulations, legislation, politics, soldier, army |
Language | English |
Copyright | Cambridge University Library |