Index to Short Titles of Sources used in the Database
 A person’s name appearing in the reference section of the database often indicates verbal or written information, and in that case the name does not appear in the list below. 

Short name                       Full Title

Accidental Airman   Rainsford, F.F., Memoirs of an Accidental Airman, 1986
Ada               Kearton, Ada Cherry, On Safari, 1956
Adventure     Pollard, John, Adventure Begins in Kenya, 1957
Adventurers  Boyes, John, The Company of Adventurers, 1928
Advert  The Traveller’s Guide to Kenya and Uganda, Palm Court Hotel, Mombasa, 1936
Advertiser     The Advertiser of East Africa
Aero              Richmond, J.M. and Jan Hemsing, Aero Club of East Africa 1927-1977, 1977
African  World        African World (magazine)
Afterthoughts Mitchell, Sir Philip, African Afterthoughts, 1954
A.G.D. White   White, Alexander Geoffrey Duckett, In and Out of Africa, 1987
Agnes Shaw   Kenya Kaleidoscope, 2020
Ainsworth      Goldsmith, F.H., John Ainsworth: Pioneer Kenya Administrator, 1955
Air                  Wikipedia – list of pilots awarded Royal Aero Club aviator’s certificates
AJ                  Agricultural Journal of British East Africa  
Alexander      Alexander, John, ‘Elephants and Eccentrics’, Africa Encounter, vol. 2, 1973        Alice- Memories      Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Memories of Ninety Years, 1991
A. Allen         Allen, Anthony, military memorabilia collector, information given to Ayre
Anthony Allen Ibid.
All Saints      All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi, memorial plaques etc.
Altrincham    Altrincham, Lord (E.W.M Grigg), Kenya’s Opportunity, 1955
Alumni          Ancestry.com (Venn, J.A.), Cambridge University Alumni 1261--1900, 2001
Amboseli       Lovatt Smith, David, Amboseli, a Miracle Too Far?, 2009
Anderson- Church    Anderson, W.B., The Church in East Africa, 1840-1974, 1977
Ansorge        Ansorge, William John, Under the African Sun, 1899
Archer           Archer, Sir Geoffrey, Personal and Historical Memoirs of an East African Administrator, 1963
Argosy          Courtney, Roger, African Argosy, 1953
Army Diary   Meinertzhagen, Colonel R., Army Diary 1899-1926, 1960
Army Medical  Medical Officers in the British Army 1660-1969, 2 vols, 1968
Arnold           Arnold, Guy, Kenyatta and the Politics of Kenya, 1974
Aschan          Aschan, Ulf, The Man whom Women Loved: the Life of Bror Blixen, 1987
Ashe              Ashe, Rev. R.P., Chronicles of Uganda, 1894
Askwith1       Askwith, Tom, Getting my Knees Brown, 1996
Askwith2       Askwith, Tom, From Mau Mau to Harambee, 1995
Arnold           Arnold, Guy, Kenyatta and the Politics of Kenya, 1974
Ashe             Ashe, R.P., Chronicles of Uganda, 1895
Austin           Austin, Major Herbert H., With Macdonald in Uganda, 1903
Bap or Baptism   Baptism Register – Nyeri, Ruiru
Barnes           East African Cemeteries and Memorials, compiled by Robert Barnes, internet. These have been transferred to FindaGrave (internet). All cemetery information in the database was researched and listed by Robert Barnes
Barnes           Several rugby refs. It has not been possible to trace this source.

Barnett          Barnett, Donald L. and Karari Njama, Mau Mau from Within, 1972

Bartlett          Bartlett, Fred, Shoot Straight and Stay Alive, 2000

Barton           Barton, Bill, In and Out of Africa, 2000

Bate               Bate, John, Wheels over Black Cotton, 1978

Batstone        Batstone, Jack, unpublished diary of Jack Batstone, 1913

Baur              Baur, John, The Catholic Church in Kenya, 1990

BEA              Hindlip, Lord, British East Africa, Past, Present and Future, 1905

Beck              Beck, Ann, A History of the British Medical Administration of East Africa’
1900-1950, 1999

BECM            British Empire and Commonwealth Museum (part of Bristol Museum)      

Bednall          Bednall, Dundas – information provided by

Beginning      Lipscomb, J.F., From the Beginning, 1948

Bell                Bell, Walter D.M., Bell of Africa, 1960

Bellers           Bellers, Veronica, A Speck in the Ocean of Time, 2014

Bendel           Bendel, Barry, Racing in Kenya, 1974

Benson          Benson, Godfrey (comp.), ‘The Life Story of Ethel Dorothea Benson’, unpubl.

Best               Best, Nicholas, Happy Valley, 1979

Bewes           Bewes, T.F.C., Kikuyu Conflict, 1953

Big Stuff       Stoneham, C.T., Big Stuff, 1954

Binks             Binks, H.K., African Rainbow

Blundells       Mahood, A.S. (ed.), The Register of Blundell’s School 1882-1932, 1932

Boase            Boase, A.M., When the Sun Never Set, 1980

Borderland  Wilson, Captain H.A., A British Borderland – Service and Sport in Equatoria,1913
Bovill            Matheson, J.K. and E.W., East African Agriculture, 1950

Bowkers        Mitford-Barberton, Ivan and Raymond, The Bowkers of Tharfield, 1952

Boyes            Boyes, John, John Boyes - King of the Wakikuyu, 1911

Boyles           Boyles, Denis, African Lives, 1988

Breath           Foran, Robert, A Breath of the Wilds, 1958

Breckenridge Breckenridge, James B., 40 Years in Kenya, 2002

Brewery         Rodwell, Edward, Fifty Years of Kenya Breweries, 1972

Bright            Bright, R.G.T., Expedition from Uganda to Abyssinia (1898): the Diary of                R.G.T. Bright, 2005, and Travel and Adventure on an African Borderland, 1910

Brightest       Akeley, Carl E., In Brightest Africa, 1924

Brodhurst-Hill     Brodhurst-Hill, Evelyn, So This is Kenya, 1936

Bror               Blixen, Baron Bror von, African Hunter, 1937

Bror Letters   Kleen, G.V.F., Bror Blixen – the Africa Letters, 1988

Brown            Brown, John H., A Missionary in the Making

Browne          ?

Buffalo Barua         Kenya Regiment newsletter

Bur                Burial Register, Kiambu

Burkes           Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, various years

Buxton          Buxton, Edward North, Two African Trips, 1902

Bwana           Adamson, George, Bwana Game, 1968

Cameron       Cameron, Roderick, Equator Farm, 1955

Campbell      Campbell, Alexander, The Heart of Africa, 1954

Campling      Wedekind, J., Keith Campling and the Story of Aviation in Kenya, 2006

Caputo        Caputo, Philip, Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa, 2003

Cara              Buxton, Cara, Adventurous Norfolk Lady

Carman    Carman, John A., A Medical History of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, 1976

Carnegie       Carnegie, V.M., A Kenyan Farm Diary, 1930

Carnelley      Carnelley, Mervyn,  Naivasha Lake, 2000

Carson           Carson, J.B., Sun, Sand and Safari, 1957

Cashmore      Cashmore, T.H.R., ‘A Random Factor in British Imperialism: District Administration in Colonial Kenya’ in Imperialism, the State and the Third                  World (ed. Michael Twaddle), 1992; and Studies in District Administration in the East Africa Protectorate 1895-1918, 2010

Cass              Cass, Caroline, Joy Adamson, Behind the Mask, 1992

Cave              Cave, Viscountess, Three Journeys, 1928

Cell               Cell, John, By Kenya Possessed, 1976

Celluloid       Gillespie, Stirling, Celluloid Safari, 1939

Cem              Peter Ayre’s cemetery list

Chandler       Chandler, David, Legends of an African Frontier, 2007

Chanler      Chanler, W.A., Travels in Eastern Africa, 1896; Through Jungle and Desert, 1896

Chapman       Chapman, Abel, On Safari, 1908

Charters         Charters, A.D., Reminiscences of East Africa and Western Australia in the Milestones of a Doctor’s Life, 1903-1984, 1985

Chase            Chase, Ilka, Elephants Arrive at Half Past Five, 1964

Childhood  Considine, J, and John Rawlins, Childhood Memories of Colonial East Africa,2004

Chogoria       Wilkinson, John, The Story of Chogoria, 1994

Clark             Clark, James L., Trails of the Hunted, 1928

Close             Close, Etta, A Woman Alone – in Kenya, Uganda and the Belgian Congo, 1924

CMS             Church Missionary Gleaner, various

CO                Colonial Office files

Coast Causerie     Rodwell, Edward, Coast Causerie, 1972

Coastweek    Coastweek (Kenya magazine)

Cobbold        Cobbold, Lady Evelyn, Kenya – the Land of Illusion, 1935

Cocker          Cocker, Mark, Richard Meinertzhagen – Soldier, Scientist, Spy, 1989

Colonial        Colonial Office List

Colonial        Kirk-Greene. A.H.M., A Biographical Dictionary of the British Colonial   Governor, 1991

Considine      Information and papers from Joan Considine

Contact         Contact (journal)

Couffer         Couffer, Jack, The Lions of Living Free, 1972

Courtney       Courtney, Roger, African Escapade, 1939

CousinConnect  genealogical website

Cran              Cran, Hugh, And Miles to Go Before I Sleep – a British Vet in Africa, 2007

Cranworth     Cranworth, Lord, Kenya Chronicles, 1939

Cream           Hill, M.F., Cream Country, the Story of Kenya Cooperative Creameries, c.1956

Cricinfo         website

Crossroads    Dundas, Sir Charles, African Crossroads, 1955

Crozier          Crozier, Anna, Practising Colonial Medicine, 2007

Cuckoo         Foran, W. Robert, A Cuckoo in Kenya, 1936

Curtis            Curtis, Arnold (ed.), Memories of Kenya – Stories from the Pioneers, 1986

CWGC          Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Daily Nation Daily Nation (Kenyan newspaper)

Daktari          Hart, Susanne, Life with Daktari, 1969

Daly              Daly, Marcus, Big Game Hunting and Adventure 1897-1936, 1937

Daphne  Ewings       Correspondence with Peter Ayre

Darling          Boyd, John Morton (ed.), Fraser Darling in Africa, 1991

Davis             Davis, A. and H.G. Robertson, Chronicles of Kenya, 1929

Debretts         Debrett’s Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, various years

Defeating Mau Mau     Leakey, L.S.B., Defeating Mau Mau, 1954

Del Monte     Del Monte, Thika, Imani Cemetery

Descending   Preston, R.O., Descending the Great Rift Valley, c. 1942

Dhows           Salvadori, Cynthia, We Came in Dhows, 3 vols, 1996

Diana            Capstick, Fiona Claire, The Diana Files, 2004

Diary 1903    East Africa and Uganda Diary for 1903 (Government publication)

Dimbilil        Whittall, Errol, Dimbilil, the Story of a Kenya Farm, 1956

Dir. of EA     Directory of East Africa, 1922-3

Dod               Dod’s Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 1909

Dominion      Dominion and Colonial Office List, various years

Dow              Dow, Phil, School in the Clouds, the Rift Valley Academy, 2003

Downey        Cullen, Anthony, Downey’s Africa, 1959

Drew             Drew, Sir Robert, Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army, vol 2, 1968

Drum             Drum (South African magazine)

Drumkey       Drumkey, J.A., Year Book for East Africa, 1908, 1909

DSO              The Distinguished Service Order 1886-1923, 1924

Dunkley        Dunkley, Jack, Papers with Letters – research in South Africa

Dusty            Chenevix Trench, Charles, The Desert’s Dusty Face, 1964 and Men Who Ruled Kenya. 1993

Du Toit         Du Toit, Brian, The Boers in East Africa, 1998

EA and Rhodesia    Joelson, F.S. (ed.), East Africa and Rhodesia (weekly journal)

EA Diary 1902    East African Diary for 1902 (Government Publication)

EAHB            Handbook of East Africa, Uganda and Zanzibar, 1905 and more

EAMR           Wilson, C.J., The Story of the East African Mounted Rifles, 1938

EAS               East African Standard (newspaper)

EASC            East African Study Circle Bulletin (magazine)

East Africa    East Africa (magazine), 1920s

East African Annual East African Annual – various years

Eastman      Eastman, George, Chronicles of an African Trip, 1927

EAWL           Forms returned by members of the East African Women’s League

Eden              Robins, Eric, Secret Eden, 1980

Eldoret      East Africa Women’s League Eldoret Golden Jubilee Scrapbook, 1967, unpubl.

Elephant        Blunt, David Enderby, Elephant, 1933

Elephant People      Holman, Denis, The Elephant People, 1967

Elephant Stone      Jordan, John Alfred, The Elephant Stone, 1959

Empire           Kenya – Britain’s Youngest and Most Attractive Colony  (Kenya Empire Exhibition Council, 1924)                      

Empire Museum (now in Bristol Museum)   Roger Bolton films – ‘Ruling Passions: Sex, Race and the Empire’, 1994

Esther            Hopcraft, Esther E., Esther’s Story, 1996

Eton               The Old Public School-boys’ Who’s Who – Eton, 1933

Eton Obs       The Eton Observer: a Miscellany, 1860-

F. McCartney     Verbal and written information

FANY           First Aid Nursing Yeomanry

Fey                Fey, Venn, Cloud over Kenya, 1964

Fielding         Fielding, Daphne, The Rainbow Picnic, a Portrait of Iris Tree, 1974

Fight              Speed, Neil G., Born to Fight – Major Charles Joseph Ross DSO, 2002

First Wheel   Allen, Bunny, First Wheel, 1983

Fitzgerald      Fitzgerald, W.W.A., Travels in the Coastlands of BEA and the Islands, 1898

Flashlight      Schillings, C.G., With Flashlight and Rifle, 1906

Fleming         Fleming, G.D., Blue is the Sky, 1945

Flying            Lockhart-Mure, Tom, ‘Flying for Pleasure’, East African Annual, 1959-60

Footprints      White, Stewart Edward, The Land of Footprints, 1913

Footsteps  Footsteps in the Sand by the Old Girls of the Kenya High School, Nairobi, 2021   

Forbes Munro       Forbes Munro, J, Colonial Rule and the Kamba, 1889-1939, 1975

Foster            Foster, J.P.T., The Settlement of Timau 1910-1940, 1979

Foster            James Foster, Index Book (manuscript)

Fox Davies    Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles, Military Combatants, Air Force Combatants,         Barristers, 2011, and Armorial Families, 1970

Frampton       Frampton, Peggy, Seven Candles for my Life, 1994

Franks            Franks, Norman, SE5/5a Aces of World War I, 2003

Freeland         Rodwell, Edward, ‘Loves’ Labours Lost in Lamu’, Africa Encounter, 1973

Frost               Frost, Richard, Enigmatic Proconsul – Sir Philip Mitchell and the Twilight of Empire, 1992

FTP                ?

Funga             defunct website for reminiscences of Kenya

Gallmann       Gallmann, Kuki, I Dreamed of Africa, 1991

Game             Jordan, John Alfred, Elephants and Ivory, 1956

Garden           Cran, Marion, The Garden Beyond, 1937

Gardner   Gardner, Brian, German East – the Story of the First World War in East Africa,1963                                                                                                                                 

Gazette          Kenya Gazette – on the internet

Genesis          Preston, R.O., The Genesis of Kenya Colony, ?1947

Gerrard          Gerrard. John W., Africa Calling, 2001

Gethin            Richard W. Gethin, ‘Memoirs’, unpubl.

Ghosts            Barnes, Juliet, The Ghosts of Happy Valley, 2013

Gillett            Gillett, Mary, Tribute to Pioneers, 1986

Glimpses       Salvadori, Cynthia, Glimpses of the Jews of Kenya, 2004

Globe             The Globe Trotter (newspaper)

Golding         Golding, J.A., Colonialism: the Golden Years, 1987

Golf               Hooper, R.W., The Game of Golf in East Africa, 1953

Graphic         The Graphic and Kenya Graphic (newspapers)

Grasshoppers Anderson, Dick, We Felt Like Grasshoppers – the Story of Africa Inland             Mission, 1994               

Grave            Information from gravestones

Greame         Greame, Paulette Lloyd, With Lions by my Side, 1958

Greenhorn     Courtney, Roger, A Greenhorn in Africa, 1940

Grogan           Grogan, Ewart S. and Arthur H. Sharp, From the Cape to Cairo, 1902

Guardian        Guardian (UK newspaper)

Habari           Habari, Kenya Police Association International Newsletter

Hall               Hall, Rev. Martin J., Through my Spectacles in Uganda, 1898

Happy           Roosevelt, Kermit, The Happy Hunting Grounds, 1920

Harmony       Harmony Freemasons’ Lodge Register

Harries          Harries Family Newsletter 21

Hartley          Hartley, Jean, Africa’s Big Five and Other Wildlife Filmmakers, 2011

Havash          Lloyd-Jones, W., Havash!, 1925

HBEA           Ward, H.F. and J.W. Milligan, Handbook of British East Africa, 1912

HH&H          Wilson, H. ‘Tug’, Horses, Huns and Hostesses, 1993

Hobley          Hobley, C.W., Kenya from Chartered Company to Crown Colony, 1929

Hobo             Stoneham, C.T. From Hobo to Hunter, 1956

Hoey             Hamilton, Mrs M.H. (Mrs M. Hoey), Turn the Hour, 1991

Holmberg      Holmberg, Andrew, Out in Africa, 2000

Hooper          Hooper, R.W., The Game of Golf in East Africa, 1953

Horizon         Fey, Venn, Wide Horizon, 1982

Horning         Van Dyke, Col. Woodbridge, Horning into Africa, 1931

Howarth        Howarth, Clive, The Howarths of Kenya, 1995

Hughes          Hughes, Lotte, Moving the Maasai, a Colonial Misadventure, 2006

Hut                Hutchinson, Tim, 1996 Kenya Up-Country Directory, 1996

Hyde-Clarke Information from Janet Hyde-Clarke

IBEA             Nominal List of British Born Subjects Resident in British East Africa (prepared by IBEA officials – original in Zanzibar Archives)

IBEA             McDermott, P.L., British East Africa or IBEA, 1893

IGI                 International Genealogical Index (internet)

Iliffe               Iliffe, John, East African Doctors, 2002

ILN                Illustrated London News (magazine)

Ingwe             Powell, M. Norman, Ingwe, 2001

Intelligencer   Church Missionary Intelligencer magazine

Into Africa     Cameron, Kenneth M., Into Africa: the Story of the East African Safari, 1990

Ione                Leigh, Ione, In the Shadow of Mau Mau, 1954

Ionides           Ionides, C.J.P., A Hunter’s Story, 1965

Irish               Hogan, Ruth, The Irish in Kenya, 1993

Izuakor          Ifeanyi Izuakor Levi, ‘A Grand Illusion , European Settlement in Kenya’, Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, 1981

Jambo            ‘Jambo’, East Africa Women’s League (UK) Newsletter

Jay                 Jay, John Mark, Any Old Lion, 1966

Jessen            Jessen, B.H., W.N. McMillan’s Expeditions and Big Game Hunting, 1906

Jewell            Jewell, John H.A. Mombasa, the Friendly Town, 1976

Jews              Carlebach, Julius, The Jews of Nairobi 1903-1962, 1962

Joelson          Joelson, F.S., Eastern Africa Today, 1928

Jordan           Prebble, John, Mongaso – Man who is Always Moving, 1956

KAD             Davis, Cecil (comp.), The Kenya Annual Directory, 1922

KAR             Page, Malcolm, A History of the King’s African Rifles and East African Forces, c.1998                  

Karen 50       Karen Country Club – 50 Years, 1987 (publ. by the club)

Kelly’s          Kelly’s Handbook of the Titled, Landed and Official Classes

Kenton          Kenton College Records

Kenya Bio    Zwanenberg, Roger Van, Kenya Historical Biographies, 1971

Kenya Diary Meinertzhagen, Colonel R., Kenya Diary 1902-1906. 1957

Kenya Past and Present   Kenya Past and Present (journal)

Kenyatta       Murray Brown, Jeremy, Kenyatta, 1973

Ker                Ker, Donald I., Through Forest and Veldt, 1958

KFA              Huxley, Elspeth, No Easy Way – a History of the Kenya Farmers’ Association and Unga Ltd., 1957

KFR              Kenya Friends Reunited - Facebook

KGC             Kericho Golf Club Boards

KGF              Kenya Genealogy Forum - internet

Kiambu Scrapbook    ‘Kiambu Scrapbook’, typescript by EAWL, no date Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1955

Kill                Foran, Major W. Robert, Kill or be Killed, 1933    

Kingsley-Heath     Kingsley-Heath, John, Hunting the Dangerous Game of Africa, 1998

Kinloch         Kinloch, Bruce, The Shamba Raiders, 1972

Klondyke      Raper, Fred, Klondyke to Kenya, 1938

KR                Kenya Regiment lists – their Long Roll is on their website on the internet

Land              Return of Land, Industrial and Mining Concessions

Land and Sea McLure, H.R., Land Travel and Seafaring, 1924

Lander           Lander, Cherry, My Kenya Acres, a Woman Farms in Mau Mau Country, 1957

Laroque         Laroque, Lucinda de, Paradise Found – the Story of the Mt.Kenya Safari Club, 1992

Last Chance  Farson, Negley, Last Chance in Africa, 1949

Law     Hamilton, R.W. (comp.), East Africa Protectorate Law Reports, 1897-1905, 1906

Leader 14     Daily Leader (Kenyan newspaper) 1914

Legion          Royal British Legion (Kenya Branch) lists and documents

Leigh            Leigh, W.R., Frontiers of Enchantment, 1939

Leys             Leys, Norman, Kenya, 1924

LG                London Gazette

LGS              Limuru Girls’ School

Lillibullero   Dutton, E.A.T., Lillibulero, or the Golden Road, 1944

Limuru          Limuru Girls’ School Old Girls’ News

Llewellin       Llewellin, John, Sole Claim to Fame, no date

Lloyd-Jones  Lloyd-Jones, W., K.A.R., 1926

London Mag Meyers, Jeffrey, A Queer Ugly Business – the London Magazine, 1983

Long Grass   Capstick, Peter Hathaway, Death in the Long Grass, 1978

Lorian          Haywood, Capt. C. Wightwick, To the Mysterious Lorian Swamp, 1927

Lorimer        Lorimer, Norma, By the Waters of Africa, 1917

Lovers          Hall, Richard, Lovers on the Nile, 1980

Luck             Luck, Anne, Charles Stokes in Africa, 1972

Lust              Warwick, Mark, ‘Lust in the Dust’, internet article [appears to be unavailable]

Lytton           Lytton, Earl of, The Desert and the Green, 1957

Machakos     Hill, Sheelagh, Early Memories of Settlers in Machakos, Kenya, 2006

Macmillan    Macmillan, Allister, Eastern Africa and Rhodesia, 1930

Magadi         Hill, M.F., Magadi – the Story of the Magadi Soda Company, 1964

Malcolmson Malcolmson, Ian, This and That, 1970

Malindi         Martin, Esmond Bradley, The History of Malindi, 1973

Mambo         Mambo, magazine for the Kenya police – now defunct, but available on          https://goo.gl/4cgJKR

Manual         Carlyle-Gall, C. (ed.), The East African Manual, 1927

Markham      Trzebinski, Errol, The Lives of Beryl Markham, 1993

Marula          Ryan, Rob, Marula, 2000

Masonic       Masonic Calendar and Journal for the District of East Africa, 1975

Matson         Matson, A.T., Nandi Resistance to British Rule1890-1906, 1972

Matson Bio  Matson, A.T., Kenya Historical Biographies, 1971

Max Hutton  Correspondence and information

McCutcheon McCutcheon, John T., In Africa, 1910

Medals          British Army Medal Index Cards - internet

Medic           Drew, Sir Robert, Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of The British Army, vol 1, 1968

Meikle          Meikle, R.S. and M.E., After Big Game  [no date, but soon after 1912]

Midday Sun  Huxley, Elspeth, Out in the Midday Sun, 1985

Milbank        Milbank, Mark, Scrambled Africa, 2010

Miller            Miller, D.M., Central Africa Revisited, 1938

Mills             Mills, Stephen, The History of Muthaiga Country Club, 2006

Mills Norfolk    Mills, Stephen, The Norfolk, the Hotel that Built a Nation, 2011

Mills Railway   Mills, Stephen, A Railway to Nowhere, 2012

Mini-Sitrep   Kenya Regiment Association newsletter

Mischief        Fox, James, White Mischief, 1982

Mombasa      Aldrick, Judy (comp.) The Mombasa Club, 1996 Souvenir Magazine

Mombasa Mission     Corcoran, Edward, Mombasa Mission – the Growth of the Church in Mombasa, Kenya, 1888-1990, 1997

Monuments   Harvey, David, Monuments to Courage, 2008

Moore           Moore, Audrey, Serengeti, 1938

Morkel          Morkel, Bill, Hunting in Africa, 1980

Moss             Moss Richard W., Quavers Near the Equator, 2010

Motor Sport  Motor Sport magazine

Mountains     Anderson, J.R.L., High Mountains and Cold Seas, a Biography of H.W. ‘Bill’ Tillman, 1980

Moyse           Moyse-Bartlett, Lieut-Colonel H., King’s African Rifles, 1956

Murders        Bennett, Benjamin, Famous South African Murders, 1938

Muthaiga      ? See Mills

Nairobi         Walmsley, R.W., Nairobi, the Geography of a New City, 1957

Naivasha       EAWL, Naivasha District History

Nandi            Huntingford, G.W.B., The Nandi of Kenya, 1953

Nanyuki        Nanyuki Sports Club contents and boards

Nation           Daily Nation and Sunday Nation (Kenyan newspapers)

Nature           Murray-Smith, T., The Nature of the Beast, 1963

Nellie            Huxley, Elspeth, Nellie – Letters from Africa, 1980

Nicholls        Nicholls, C.S., Red Strangers: the White Tribe of Kenya, 2005, and many articles online for Old Africa magazine

Nicholson Memoirs   Nicholson, Brian, The Last of Old Africa, 2001

Nimrod         Wykes, Alan, Nimrod Smith, 1961

Njoro            Njoro Golf Club Notice Boards

Nondies        Nondescripts Rugby Football Club programmes

Norden         Norden, Hermann, White and Black in East Africa, 1924

North            North, Stephen, Europeans in British Administered East Africa (edns. in 1995, 1997, 2000, 2005 and 2014)

Nyali            Hemsing, Jan, Nyali Beach Hotel – the First 50 Years, 1996

Obituary       Usually from the Daily Telegraph (UK newspaper)            

ODNB          Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Old Africa    Old Africa Magazine

Old Cambrian   Old Cambrian website for Prince of Wales School/Nairobi School, Nairobi

Olga              Watkins, Elizabeth, Olga in Kenya, 2005

O’Neill         O’Neill, Pat Cavendish, A Lion in the Bedroom, 2012

OP                The Overseas Pensioner (magazine). See also OSPN

Ord               Ord, J.W., Tales of Kenya: a Policeman Remembers, 1997

Orde-Browne  Orde-Browne, Major G., The Vanishing Tribes of Kenya, 1925

Oriental         Preston, R.O. (comp.), Oriental Nairobi, 1938

Ormerod       Kirsop, Joseph, Life of Robert Moss Ormerod, Missionary to East Africa, n.d.

Orphans        Sheldrick, Daphne, The Orphans of Tsavo, 1966

Oscar            Watkins, Elizabeth, Oscar from Africa, 1995

Oserian         Hayes, Charles, Oserian, Place of Peace, 1887

OSPN and OP   Overseas Service Pensioners’ Association Newsletter and The Overseas Pensioner

Oswald         Oswald, Felix, Alone in the Sleeping-Sickness Country, 1923

Over my Shoulder      Ryan, Molly Ievers, Over my Shoulder, 1987

Oyer              Oyer, Herbert J., Pastor Amos – Tragedy and Triumph, 1997

O&C             Oxford and Cambridge Society of Kenya – Rules, 1958

Paice’s Place Duder, C.J.D. and C.P.Youé, ‘Paice’s Place: Race and Politics in the Nanyuki District in the 1920s’, African Affairs (journal), 1994, 93

Passions        Gill, Anton, Ruling Passions, 1995

Peacocks       Howard de Walden, Lord, Earls have Peacocks, 1992

Peerage         thePeerage.com

Pembroke     Parker, Ian, A History of Pembroke House, 1997

Percival         Percival, A. Blayney, A Game Ranger’s Note Book, 1924

PercivalP      Percival, Philip H., Hunting, Settling and Remembering, 1997

Perham         Perham, Margery, East African Journey – Kenya and Tanganyika, 1976

Perkins         Temple-Perkins, E.A., Kingdom of the Elephant, 1955

Permanent Way    Hill, M.F., Permanent Way, 1949

Pioneer Spirit        Barberton, Gareth Mitford, Pioneer Spirit, 2006

Pioneers        The First Hundred Pioneers of Kenya – List of Members, 1937

Pioneers        Huxley, Elspeth and Arnold Curtis, Pioneers’ Scrapbook, 1980

Planters         Hill, M.F., Planters’ Progress, the Story of Coffee in Kenya, 1956

Playne           Playne, Somerset, East Africa 1908-9, 1909

PMN             ?

Police            Foran, Robert, The Kenya Police 1887-1960, 1962

Polnay           De Polnay, Peter, The Moon and the Marabou Stork, 1973

Pori Tupu      Koenig, Oskar, Pori Tupu, 1954

Powys           Powys, Llewelyn, Black Laughter, 1924 and Ebony and Ivory, 1923

Precarious     Williams, Howard, Paradise Precarious, 1956

Purvis            Purvis, J.B., Through Uganda to Mount Elgon, 1909

Purvis Handbook          Handbook to British East Africa and Uganda, 1900

Quest             Martin, Chryssee et al., Quest for the Past, an Historical Guide to  the Lamu Archipelago, 1973

Rabai             Rabai to Mumias – a Short History of the Church of the Province of Kenya, 1994

Racing           Jockey Club of Kenya – Races Past etc

Rail Museum Foran, Robert, The Railway Museum, Nairobi, Guide

Rainsford       Rainsford, W.S., The Land of the Lion, 1909

Random         Cole, Eleanor, Random Recollections of a Pioneer Kenya Settler, 1975

Rayne            Rayne, Major H., The Ivory Raiders, 1923

RCS               Royal Commonwealth Society

Red  (+year)  The East African Red Book for 1922-23, 1922, and ibid for several years        

Red Book 1912     The Directory of East Africa, Uganda and Zanzibar, 1912 – ‘The Red Book’, 1912

Red1st           Website

Rediscovered White, Stewart Edward, The Rediscovered Country, 1915

Reece            Reece, Alys, To my Wife, 50 Camels, 1963

Rensburgrus  Rensburgrus Church, Eldoret, baptisms etc

Revell            Revell-Smith, Norma, East African Highways and Byeways, 1937

RH                 Rhodes House Library, Oxford (now the Library of Commonwealth and African Studies in the Bodleian Library)

Rhino Link    King’s African Rifles and EA Forces Officers’ Dinner Club Newsletter

Rhodesia       Joelson, F.S. (ed.), Rhodesia and East Africa, 1958

Rhodora        Seys, Rosemary, The Rhodora Letters, 1993

Richardson    Richardson, Sir Philip, ‘It Happened to Me’: being the Reminiscences of Sir Philip Wigham Richardson, 1952

Rifleman       Aagard, Finn, American Rifleman, Dec. 1983

Rift Valley    Rift Valley Sports Club Nakuru, List of Members, Jan. 1929

Rogue Male  Field, Roger and Geoffrey Gordon-Creed, Rogue Male: Sabotage and Seduction behind German Lines

Roome           Roome, Wm.J.W., Through the Lands of Nyanza, 1930

Roosevelt      Roosevelt, Theodore, African Game Trails, 1910

Ropes            Bennett, Norman Robert, The Zanzibar Letters of Edward D. Ropes, 1973

RS                 Rooken-Smith, Heather, Daisy’s Daughter, Our Lives in Africa, 2016

Ruark            Ruark, Robert, Use Enough Gun, 1967

Rugby           Campbell, M.J. and E.J. Cohen, Rugby Football in East Africa 1909-1959, 1960

Ruiru             List of members of Ruiru Masonic Lodge provided privately

Rundgren      Holman, Denis, Inside Safari Hunting with Eric Rundgren, 1978

Sahib             Booth, Martin, Carpet Sahib, a Life of Jim Corbett, 1986

Safari             East African Safari Programme

Safari Trail    Murray-Smith, T., Safari Trail, 1965

Salvadori       Salvadori, Cynthia, Two Indian Travellers – East Africa 1902-1905, 1997

Samson  Samson, Air Commodore C.R., A Flight from Cairo to Cape Town and Back, 1931

Saving Game Cullen, Anthony and Sydney Downey, Saving the Game, 1960

School           Nairobi Government School Register, 1912, in Rhodes House, Oxford

Scobie           Scobie, Alastair, Men Against the Sun, 1959

Scotland        Jubilee Book of the Church of Scotland Missionary Society (Church of Scotland Mission, 1948)

Scott             Scott, Robert L., Between the Elephant’s Eyes, 1955

SE                Stephen Ellis’s Ledger, 1907/8

Second Wheel     Allen, Bunny, Second Wheel, 1985

Serengeti      Turner, Kay, Serengeti Home, 1978

Seth-Smith   Seth-Smith, A.M.D. ‘Tony’, For the Honour of a Hunter, 1996

Settlement    Kenya Settlement Handbook (East African Office, 1945)

Seventy        East African Women’s League, 70 Years, publ. by EAWL 1987

Shadows       Dinesen, Isak, Shadows on the Grass, 1960

Sheardown   Sheardown, Frank, A Man of the Field, 1988

Ship              Reynolds, David, Steam and Quinine on Africa’s Great Lakes, 1997 and  ships’ passenger information (ancestry.com)

Shorters        Shorter, Aylward, East African Societies, 1974

Shorthose     Shorthose, Captain W., Sport and Adventure in Africa, 1923

Siemon         Siemon, Rosamund, The Eccentric Mr Wienholt, 2006

Sitrep            Kenya Regiment Association Newsletter

Sixty             East African Women’s League, 60 Years, publ. by EAWL 1977

Skin              Church, Elizabeth, Kenya Under my Skin, 1988

SKP              Society of Kenya Pioneers’ Members (30 years+), 1938

Smeaton       Smeaton-Stuart, J.R., Safari for Gold, 1942

Snake           Wykes, Alan, Snake Man, 1960

Snoxall         ?  R.A. Snoxall wrote an English-Swahili Dictionary

Sorrenson     Sorrenson, M.P.K., Origins of European Settlement in Kenya, 1968

Sportsmen    Anon, British Sports and Sportsmen, publ. by The Sportsman, 1914

Sprott            Sprott, F.H., Coffee Planting in Kenya Colony, 1929

SS                 East Africa Protectorate Land Settlement Scheme... List of Farms Allocated, no date, but c. 1920 (the Soldier Settler scheme)

Staff 39         Colony and Protectorate of Kenya Staff List, publ. by Kenya Govt, July 1939

Staff 53         Kenya Colony Staff List March 1953, publ. by Kenya Govt, 1953 et al.

Standard       The Standard (Kenya newspaper)

Stand-to        Mills, I.V.B., The Dawn Stand-to, 2000

Stephen Smith        Smith, Stephen J., The Hunter and the Go-away Bird, 1992

Stigand          Stigand, Major C.H., Equatoria – the Lado Enclave, 1923

Stock             Stock, Eugene, My Recollections, 1909

Stoneham      Stoneham, C.T., Africa all Over, 1934

Stoneham Mau    Stoneham, C.T., Mau Mau, 1953

Stoneham Wanderings     Stoneham, C.T., Wanderings in Wild Africa, 1932

Streeter         Streeter, Daniel W., Denatured Africa, 1926

Stud               EA Stud Book – vol. xv, 1954

Sudan         Bell, G.W. and A.H.M. Kirk-Greene, The Sudan Political Service 1902-1952, 1989

Sundown       Holman, Denis, Elephants at Sundown, 1978

Sunman         Sunman, Hilary, A Very Different Land, 2014

Sutton           Sutton, Richard L., An African Holiday, 1924

Swann           Swann, A.J., Fighting the Slave Hunters in Central Africa, 1910

Swara            Swara (East African Wildlife Society magazine)

Szechenyi     Szechenyi, Count Zsigmond, Land of Elephants, 1935

Szlapak         Information on Jewish congregation in Kenya

Tales of Dark   Allen, Charles (ed.), Tales from the Dark Continent, 1979    

Taves            Taves, Brian, Talbot Mundy, Philosopher of Adventure, 2006

Taylor          Taylor, Stephen, The Mighty Nimrod: a Life of F.C. Selous, 1989

Telegraph     Daily Telegraph (UK newspaper)

Temptress   Spicer, Paul, The Temptress: Passion and Murder in Kenya’s Happy Valley, 2010

Temu            Temu, A.J., British Protestant Missions, 1972

The Link       East African Railways and Harbours Newsletter

Thomas        Dinesen, Thomas, My Sister, Isak Dinesen, 1975

Thomson      Thomson, Joseph, Through Masai Land, 1885

Thurnwald   Thurnwald, Richard C., Black and White in Africa, 1935

Thurston      Thurston, Anne, Guide to Archives and Manuscripts relating to Kenya and  East Africa in the United Kingdom, 2 vols, 1991

Tignor          Tignor, Robert L., The Colonial Transformation of Kenya, 1976

Titania          Migel, Parmenia, Titania – the Biography of Isak Dinesen, 1967

TNR             Tanganyika Notes and Records (journal)

Today           Joelson, F.S. (ed.), Eastern Africa To-day and To-morrow, 1934

Today and Tomorrow    Joelson, F.S. (ed.), Eastern Africa To-day and To-morrow, 1934

Tom Lawrence Verbal and written information

Tracks           Hunter, J.A., Hunter’s Tracks, 1957

Trail              Lowe, Willoughby P., The Trail that is Always New, 1932

Trans Nzoia Scrapbook  Trans-Nzoia Scrapbook publ by EAWL, no date

Travel           Travel News magazine  (Travel News, Kenya Ltd.)

Trzebinski Erroll   Trzebinski, Errol, The Life and Death of Lord Erroll, 2011

Trzebinski Pioneers    Trzebinski, Errol, The Kenya Pioneers, 1985

Tsavo            Sheldrick, Daphne, The Tsavo Story, 1973

Tucker          Tucker, Alfred R., Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa, 1908

Uganda Staff        Uganda Staff List 1938

UJ                 Uganda Journal

Ujiji              Bennett, Norman Robert, From Zanzibat to Ujiji, the Journal of Arthur W. Dodgshun, 1877-1879, 1969

Unger           Unger, Frederick William, Roosevelt’s African Trip, 1909

Valleyview   ?

Value            Ruark, Robert, Something of Value, 1955

Verandah      Fisher, Suzanne, We Lived on the Verandah, 1980

Vulture         Cowie, Mervyn, Fly, Vulture, 1961

Walford        Walford, Edward, The County Families of the United Kingdom, 1899 et al.

Wallace        Wallace, Harold Frank, Stalks Abroad, 1908

Walmsley     Walmsley, Leo, Flying and Sport in East Africa, 1920

Wanderings  Millais, J.G., Wanderings and Memories, 1919

Watt              Watt, Mrs Rachel Stuart, In the Heart of Savagedom, 1914

WebDNW     Dix Norman website, internet

Webster         Webster, David, Mishkid – A Kenyan Childhood, 2001

Wed              Marriage Register – Kiambu, Nyeri, Ruiru

Weller           Weller, H.O., A Short History of Kenya Colony, 1942

What’s What Bromhead, W.S., What’s What in the Kenya Highlands, c. 1924

Wheel of Life    Allen, Bunny, Wheel of Life, 2001

White African      Leakey, L.S.B., White African, 1937

White Man    Huxley, Elspeth, White Man’s Country, 2 vols, 1935

White Roots  Smith, Frederick A., White Roots in Africa, 1997

Whittaker      Whittaker, Roger, So Far, So Good, 1986

Who’s Who  Who’s Who in East Africa 1963-1964, 1964

Also various editions of Who’s Who, publ. in England

William de Villiers   De Villiers, Andries William, Messengers, Watchmen and Stewards,1999

Winnie          Todd, Marjorie, Winnie, her Life in Kenya 1927-1945, 1992

Witchmen     Fadiman, Jeffrey A., When we Began there were Witchmen, 1993

WMN            ?

Wolseley-Lewis    Wolseley-Lewis, Arthur, Empire to Dust, 2005

Women in Kenya       Title of East Africa Women’s League magazine publ. in Kenya

Women         Ibid.

Wren             Howden, Jean, Wren Overboard, 1989

Wymer          Wymer, Norman, The Man from the Cape, 1959

Year Book    A Year Book of British East Africa 1953-54, The English Press, Nairobi, 1954

Ylvisaker      Ylvisaker, Marguerite, Lamu in the Nineteenth Century, 1979

Ziegler          Ziegler, Philip, Edward VIII, 1991