Name/TitleUnited Empire
MakerSalmon, Edward
Maker RoleEditor(s)
About this objectUnited Empire: The Journal of the Royal Empire Society Vol. XXVI, No. 6, June 1935. Edited by Edward Salmon, O.B.E. The main contents are listed as follows:
- Frontispiece: An All Round the Empire Wireless Message
- Editorial Notes and Comments
- A Silver Jubilee Message To Their Majesties
- Spirit of Empire: Poem by C.E.H. Jacobs
- King Carnival in Trinidad, by Nellie Humel-Smith
- The New English Mind, by Wyatt Tilby
- The South African Cricketers
- The Empire Day Banquet
- Empire Day Messages
- The Annual Meeting
- Empire Summer School at Oxford
- In Memory of Captain James Cook
- Women and the Empire, by Margaret Baxter
- Our New Home: Subscribers
- Snapshots of Kenya, by Mrs Withall
- Twenty Years in Southern Rhodesia
- Book Reviews
- The Colonial Service
- Notices to Fellows
Partly scanned (8 pages incl. covers, Royal Empire Society details, and Women and the Empire article)
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 236 x W: 162 mm
Date Made1935
Period1930s
Place MadeEngland, London
PublisherCheltenham Press Ltd
Publication Date1935
Publication PlaceEngland, London
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commonwealth_Society:
The Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) is a non-governmental organisation with a mission to promote the value of the Commonwealth and the values upon which it is based. The Society upholds the values of the Commonwealth Charter, promoting conflict resolution, peace-making and democracy to improve the lives of citizens across the member states of the Commonwealth.
1868–1958
What is now The Royal Commonwealth Society was founded in 1868 as a non-political, learned organisation. A royal charter was granted in 1869, and a clubhouse opened in 1885. The Society's name slowly evolved – from The Colonial Society (1868–1869), to The Royal Colonial Society (1869–1870), to The Royal Colonial Institute (1870–1928), to The Royal Empire Society (1928–1958). The Royal Commonwealth Society was the name adopted in 1958.
The Society may be seen from early on to have been progressive in its time towards equality and diversity. A woman was first invited by The Royal Colonial Institute to read a research paper in 1894, and The Royal Colonial Institute was one of the first learned organisations to admit women as full Fellows, in 1922. The Society's first Asian member was Ji ju Sanjo, son of the Japanese prime minister (Sanjo Sanetomi), in 1872. The first African member was Samuel Bannerman, of the Gold Coast, in 1879.
The identity of the Society was for more than a hundred years bound up with its library. At a meeting on 26 June 1868, Chichester Parkinson-Fortescue recommended "the formation of a colonial library, to which all interested in the welfare of the colonies should have access," an aim affirmed by the Society's first elected chairman, Viscount Bury. The Society's first librarian was appointed in 1869, and the first salaried librarian, Australian-born Joseph Sylvester O'Halloran, in 1885. The person mainly responsible for the Library's remarkable development and international reputation was Evans Lewin, Master Librarian for thirty-six years, 1910–1946.
Subject and Association Keywordscolonisation, colonialism, colonial legacy
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeJournal
Object numberGWL-2024-6-20
Spine LabelUNITED EMPIRE ~ June 1935 ~ 6
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