The reports in this collection are grouped together under nine main headings: Administration, Finance, Judicial and Police, Natural Resources, Social Services, Transport and Public Works, Communications and Post Office Savings, Commerce and Miscellaneous.

Governmental and civilian letters sent to and received from the colony of Australia from 1788 to 1825. Part 1, Letters sent, 1808-1825 the colonial secretary's papers 1788-1825, from the State Records Authority of New South Wales. Part 2, Letters Received, 1788-1825. Topics included are agreements, dispatches, general orders, instructions, regulations, proclamations, memoranda, and reports.

Series one, Early travel accounts by women and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia, and Canada.
Series two, Imperial adventurers and explorers
Series three, Colonial fiction, 1650-1914

The records consist of twelve volumes of the confidential print relating to the West Indies, British Honduras and British Guiana. The confidential print is a collection of selected correspondence, memoranda and other documents printed for internal use in the Colonial Office or, in some cases, for circulation to the Cabinet. The records constitute Public Record Office group Colonial Office class 884.

Series 1, 2 and 3, from 1906 to 1945. Political correspondence from the British Foreign Office relating to China.

British Foreign Office correspondence from WWI. Topics include British diplomacy, Anglo-American relations, efforts to draw the United States into the war, antecedents of Turkish entry into the war, Anglo-Balkan negotiations, inter-Balkan rivalries; collapse of Serbia, Greek politics, British failure at Gallipoli, notes on the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry, intervention diplomacy and the United States, and diplomatic efforts to acquire allies.

Materials concerning colonists’ relations with the native people, issues of race and empire, initial cultural contacts, cultural interchange, Commonwealth conferences for 1887-1955 and materials on colonial reform within the Empire. Sources include periodical literature, articles, conference minutes, and reports

British government publications consisting of annual reports, blue books, government gazettes, trade supplements, and command records relating to Nigeria, Lagos, Southern Nigeria and the Niger Coast. Topics included are demographic information, transitional colonial government, political and social situations, sources of revenue, public works activities, legislation and laws, agriculture, wages, and the British protectorate interests.

British government publications consisting of annual reports, blue books, government gazettes, trade supplements, and command records relating to Nigeria, Lagos, Southern Nigeria and the Niger Coast. Topics included are demographic information, transitional colonial government, political and social situations, sources of revenue, public works activities, legislation and laws, agriculture, wages, and the British protectorate interests.

Group I consists of Votes & Proceedings of the Cape House of Assembly and the Legislative Council, and Annexures to the Votes and Proceedings (including Select Committee Reports), 1854-1910. Group II is comprised of statistical registers of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, 1821-1909.