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    The immediate post-war period saw the introduction of the ‘Ten Year Plan of Development and Welfare for Nigeria’ in 1946 and an increasing attempt by the British administration to establish import-substitution industries in Nigeria ...

     
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    ... cases ‘a very recent development’, as housing opportunities were now partially funded by the Colonial Development and Welfare scheme. The housing was constructed and managed by the municipalities, yet Atkinson acknowledged that ‘only a ...
     
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    BIKANER 1934 has video enhanced entry

    ... . He oversaw the construction of the Ganga canal, which brought water to his rain deficient state. He also introduced a number of welfare schemes; developed hospitals and schools; introduced the first Chief Court in Rajasthan; and created a Representative ...
     
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    Summary: Delivery note inside can and dated 26 November 1945 indicates film was sent by O.C. 13 Section AKS to County Welfare Officer, Dundee (although film is noted as CALLING BLIGHTY No. 131).

    Hayes: VHS for donor please

     
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    CARIBBEAN 1951 has video enhanced entry

    ... customs and songs, before showing the modern developments and welfare services available.

    The film opens with a map as ... the town and local market, the film outlines the welfare developments provided by the British. This includes improvements to local ...

     
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    Great Britain

    Designed to illustrate the importance of child welfare in missionary work. Children in Palestine, India, Africa, China and Japan, and some blind children are shown.

     
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    ... ;s sponsored books, but it also indicates an increasing emphasis on worker welfare, which was evident in post-war company reports. For ... of British development in Africa and emphasises the companies’ welfare work for its African employees. The film, ...
     
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    ... effects of Federation after 1953. The end of the war had seen the implementation of the 1940 Colonial Development and Welfare Act, which committed the Government to spending on the improvement of working conditions for colonial workers (Cooper, 2004, 302 ...
     
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    ... sacks of mail and sorting them into piles.

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    In all a well shot and well directed piece which emphasises the welfare and recreational provision for men in this theatre. This provision had been chronically poor earlier in the campaign but ...

     
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    ... Sugar the most profitable crop. Cane cut and transported to mills by train and barge. Shots from river of villages. White welfare officer visits village and checks childrens teeth. Children running along the riverbank waving. Band march past in the ...
     
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    ... Second World War (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006).

    Lewis, Joanna, Empire State-building: War & Welfare in Kenya, 1925-52 (Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 2000).

    Parsons, Timothy, Race, Resistance, and ...

     
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    ... as a historical record not just of the widespread community programmes introduced in Nigeria after the war through the Development and Welfare Act, but also of the ways in which the British sought to represent its own role in these developments. The film ...