Empire hits back Exhibition

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: October 27, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

British Empire &

Commonwealth Museum, Bristol

`I was in charge of a lovely district of five or six thousand square miles, about the size of Northern Ireland," recalls Randal Sadlier, a district officer in Tanzania after the Second World War. "It had a hundred thousand people and a delightful collection of chiefs. Chief Humbiziote is one I remember." A delightful collection has a happy ring to it. Sadlier's is just one of more than 1,200 recordings available in the oral history archive of the new British Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol, which was officially opened by the Princess Royal ...

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