2001/047

This collection mainly contains films and photographs of Kenya reflecting the career and interests of Rees and his family. There are 14 films in total, some of a domestic nature with the Rees family on holiday at the coast, and visiting national parks in Kenya and Uganda. Also included are scenes at the Kagumo Teacher Training College, visits Rees made when inspecting schools in the Tana River area, and colourful shots in Nairobi particularly the footage recording independence celebrations. There are also several reports and papers about the education system in Kenya. The photographs reflect Rees' travels around Kenya during his early years in the country, and include images of his education work, volunteering with the Boy Scouts and secondment to Mackinnon Rd Mau Mau detention camp.

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During the 1950s and early 1960s, Anthony Rees worked for the colonial service as Provincial Education Officer in the Eastern Province of Kenya. He initially joined the Staff of the Kagumo Teacher Training College as an Education Officer in 1953. He was seconded to Mackinnon Road Detention Centre for a period, where c.7,000 Mau Mau suspects were held following Operation Anvil in the Spring of 1954. Rees subsequently worked in the Ministry of Education, and from 1963 till the end of 1965 was Senior Education Officer at Embu in charge of the newly formed Eastern Region of Kenya. He was actively interested in the Boy Scout Movement and supported the Outward Bound Mountain School at Loitokitok. Rees left Kenya at the end of 1965.