GOOD TO MEET ….. herewith ROHP info – By Michael Roberts
The cassette tapes containing the Roberts Oral History interviews lodged in the BARR SMITH LIBRARY of the University of Adelaide are now being digitalized into CDs, while the typed correspondence and the transcripts of a few interviews that were transcribed by Shona ROBERTS (way back in the1960s) will be scan-digitalized as well. This process may take till the end of the year 2013. Cheryl Hoskin of the Special Projects Unit is supervising this venture. At the end of the task the University library hopes to place a price on the purchase of this archival material by repositories or even individuals abroad.
CONTACT = cheryl.hoskin@adelaide.edu.au
With info to galleonroberts@gmail.com
For the record these interviews and exchanges were undertaken between late 1965 and 1968 in UK and Sri Lanka, with the labour being provided Michael Roberts and the funding by Asia Foundation backed by the recommendation of Professor Karl Goonewardena of History, Peradeniya.
154 persons were interviewed – 31 ex-Ceylon administrators in Britain (29 British and 2 Barbadian) and 122 in Sri Lanka (administrators, politicians and notables). Because some were interviewed twice or thrice there are a total of 199 cassettes.
THE TYPED TRANSCRIPTS include
- 100 pages of Comments on E. Leach’s book Pul Eliya
- 300 pages with Comments on each Interview by Michael Roberts plus some correspondence with information
- Transcript INTERVIEWS with the following
Aluwihare, Sir Richard 68 p.
Blood, Sir Henry 62 p.
Dyson, E.T. 46 p.
Ferguson, G.H. 51 p.
Gimson, Sir Franklin 84 p.
Goonewardena, Leslie 34 p.
Hartwell, Sir Charles 45 p.
Leach, Frank 127 p.
Lucette, E.H. 34 p.
Miles, G.C. 58 p.
Mulhall, J.A. 65 p.
Newnham, H.E. 71 p.
Nihill, J.H.B. 22 p.
Roberts, T.W. 89 p.
Rodrigo, Edmund 54 p.
Sandys, M.K.T. 38 p.
Stevens, F.G. 23 p.
Strong, A.N. 180 p.
Tilney, C.E. 41 p.
Wirasinha, V.L. 53 p.
Woolf, Leonard 30 p.
Woolley, Sir Charles 45 p.
