On Crown Service A History of HM Colonial and Overseas Civil Services, 1837-1997

by Kirk-Greene, Anthony

• ISBN13: 9781860642609
• ISBN10: 1860642608
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-12
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

Published to commemorate the centenary of the Corona Club in 1999 and to mark the end of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Services, this is the only institutional history of the Colonial Service to appear for over sixty years. Anthony Kirk-Greene has combined an extensive use of archival records and historical documentation with an unparalleled knowledge of secondary sources to produce a detailed, authoritative narrative of this most important era. This work will appeal to all former members of the overseas civil services and will also attract academic historians with an interest in Britain's Colonial Service.

Author Biography

Anthony Kirk-Greene is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

The Queen's Message to the Colonial Service, 1952	vi
List of Maps and Illustrations	viii
List of Tables	ix
List of Documents	x
Abbreviations	xii
A Colonial Service Chronology, 1833--1997	xv
Foreword	xxiii
Lord Grey
Preface	xxiv
J. H. Smith
Introduction	1	(5)
An Expanding Empire to Staff, 1837--99	6	(9)
The Evolution of the Modern Colonial Service, 1900--39	15	(24)
The Expansion of the Postwar Colonial Service, 1943--54	39	(23)
Reshaping a Successor Service: HMOCS, 1954--97	62	(30)
Envoi	92	(33)
A Colonial Service Bibliography	125	(28)
Colonial Service Documents	153	(114)
Index	267