The OSPA journal and other publications
the Overseas
Pensioner
This in-house journal (ISSN 2041-2363) is published twice a year, in April and October, free to members. As well as update news about Overseas Service pension topics, information about meetings and activities of related interest groups, it contains articles, memoirs, book reviews, and research enquiries relating to Colonial Service life and times. Also members’ obituary lists and notices. It was first produced as a Newsletter in May 1961. Corresponding with OSPA’s Golden Jubilee celebrating 50 years since its formation in 1960, the 100th number of the Overseas Pensioner was published in October 2010. Since 1999 it has been published with a full colour cover, inside and out.
Copies of the journal are deposited in four of the five statutory
deposit libraries, namely the Bodleian Library at Oxford University,
Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Scotland and the
National Library of Wales.
They are also sent to libraries at the British Empire &
Commonwealth Museum, Edinburgh University Library, the Institute of
Commonwealth Studies, SOAS, House of Commons Library, House of Lords
Library, The British Library.
Non-members may buy copies (postage
free):
£4.00 Britain and Europe; £5.00 airmail
ROW.
Advertisement rates on request to The Editor, c/o
OSPA.
Copy deadlines for advertisements, announcements, articles and reviews etc. are the end of February for the April number, end of August for the October number.
To see a list of articles and books reviewed
in the last few numbers of the Overseas Pensioner click
here.
I Remember it Well; Fifty years of Colonial
Service Personal Reminiscences
edited
by David Le Breton
This
collection of 70 reminiscences taken from the Overseas Pensioner
in previous years, was published in 2010.
See details on the Home Page
OSPA Research Project
Papers
Between 2001 and 2005 a small research project was run by the
Institute of Commonwealth Studies at London University, in conjunction
with OSPA, looking at aspects of the British Colonial Service since the
Second World War. In 2005
three Occasional Papers were published, containing a selection of papers
arising from the project:
No. 1
Empire and After, edited by Michael Twaddle (ISBN 978 185507
1339)
No. 2
How Green was our Empire?, Environment, Development and the
Colonial Service,
edited byTerry Barringer
(ISBN 978 185507 1355)
No. 3
The United Kingdom Overseas Territories; Past, Present & Future, edited by
David
Killingray
and David Taylor (ISBN 978
185507 1363)
There
is also: Administering
Empire: an annotated
checklist of personal memoirs and
related
studies, compiled by Terry
Barringer (ISSN 1742
4992)
Copies of these publications are obtainable
from:
Valerie Hall,
Publications Officer,
School of Advanced
Study,
University of London,
Senate House (Room 265),
Malet Street,
London WC1E
7HU
Tel: 020 7862
8688
Email:
sas.publications@sas.ac.uk
Price: £10 (£5
to members of OSPA); plus postage £2 UK, £3
overseas.
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