Carmona Collection

António Oscar de Fragoso Carmona (1869–1951), who was the son of a general, was born in Lisbon. Following the family tradition, he entered the Royal Military Academy, graduating in 1888. He became a cavalry ensign in 1892 and was promoted to lieutenant in 1899. He taught at several military schools and worked with the commission that reorganised the Portuguese Army. Becoming a major in 1913, he was for a time the secretary to the Minister for War. He commanded the Second Cavalry (Lisbon) Regiment in the latter part of World War I.

Burke Collection

Eric Keast Burke (1896–1974) was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. His family moved to Sydney in 1904 and Burke was educated at Sydney Church of England Grammar School and the University of Sydney. During World War I he was in the Signal Corps and in 1917 enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces, serving in Mesopotamia, Persia and on the Kurdistan frontier. He later wrote a history of his unit, With horse and morse in Mesopotamia (1927).

British Radical Pamphlets

In the second half of the nineteenth century the Radicals formed a powerful political group in Britain, closely linked with the Liberal Party and the Nonconformist churches. They opposed armaments, involvement in foreign wars and imperial expansion, and stood for free trade, the extension of the franchise, the curtailment of the power of the House of Lords and the disestablishment of the Church of England.

Braga Collection

The forebears of José Maria Braga left Portugal in 1712 and settled in the colony of Macau. Two of his great-grandfathers moved to Hong Kong when the colony was established in 1842. His father José Pedro Braga (1871–1944) was a businessman, journalist and the first Portuguese member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. José Maria Braga (1897–1988) was born in Hong Kong and educated at St Joseph’s College. In 1913 he joined the staff of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Beyer Collection

Henry Otley Beyer (1883–1966) was born in Edgewood, Iowa, and was a graduate of Denver University, where he studied chemistry. In 1905 he arrived in the Philippines and, while working as a teacher, studied the Ifugaos of the Banaue Valley of northern Luzon. In 1908–09 he carried out research in Asia, North Africa and Europe and undertook graduate studies in anthropology at Harvard University. In 1909 he returned to the Philippines and was appointed ethnologist in the Bureau of Science. He carried out fieldwork among the Ifugaos, Igorots, Apayaos, Kalingas and other peoples.

Baracchi Collection

Guido Carlo Luigi Baracchi (1887–1975) was the son of Pietro Baracchi (1851–1926), who had emigrated from Italy in 1876 and was the government astronomer of Victoria from 1895 to 1915. Born in Melbourne, Baracchi was educated at Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. His mother, who came from a family of wealthy butchers, died in 1908 and he lived off his inheritance for the rest of his life.

Auchmuty Collection

James Johnston Auchmuty (1909–1981) was born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, and educated at Armagh Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin. He was a lecturer in the School of Education at Dublin University from 1936 to 1946 and then became Assistant Professor of History at Farouk University in Alexandria. Along with all other British staff, he was forced to leave Egypt in 1951. He emigrated to Australia and took up a position at the University of New South Wales. From 1955 to 1964 he was Professor of History at Newcastle University College.

Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States

Before 1833 the anti-slavery movement in America was largely unorganised. There was a scattering of local societies, such as the New York City Manumission Society (founded 1785) and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (founded 1789). The first national society was the American Colonization Society, established in 1817. Led by men in the upper South, and helped by the Federal Government, it established a colony in western Africa (Liberia) for emancipated slaves.

Dutch Pamphlet Collections

Acquisition

In 1966 the National Library purchased two collections of Dutch pamphlets from the antiquarian bookseller Martinus Nijhoff of The Hague.

Description

The larger of the two collections consists of 953 pamphlets published in the Netherlands between 1567 and 1852. The great majority of the works are in Dutch, but there are a small number of works in English, French, German and Latin.