Archival Significance
Commemorating the 30 May 1924 opening of Rhodesia’s first Parliament, this jubilee publication was issued the same year that AA-WEB-0139’s guide to Rhodesia for tourists and settlers, also held in this Archive, dates its own railway-driven settlement promotion, both marking different aspects of 1924 as a founding moment.
Institutional Context
Published by the Office of the Secretary to Parliament, Salisbury, written by the Officers of Parliament themselves.
Content Summary
Commemorates fifty years of Rhodesia’s Parliament, from its 1924 opening to 1974.
Research Utility
Useful for researchers of Rhodesian parliamentary history and institutional self-commemoration, particularly valuable for its publication just five years before the Lancaster House Agreement would end the parliamentary system it celebrates.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.