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You could try the Statesman's Yearbook, published annually since around 1870. It covers all the territories countries etc in the world and has lots of socio-econ-demographic info. The 1947 edition covers Northern Rhodesia pp.275 - 276 and gives 'revenue and expenditure of the colony for 6 years', with breakdown of revenue by customs duties, taxes, postal revenue etc etc, also gives import and export figures, and a breakdown by mineral commodity. E.g. in 1945 revenue from N R was £3,433,507, exoenditure was £2,543,370. Customs revenue was £696,831, licences and taxes yielded £2,235,386, postal revenue £104,725, fees etc £ 95,323..... Could be a lot of data trawling to get figures for all the UK's colonies, over several years, but there's a lot to gpo on in there. Dr Hillary J. Shaw Director and Senior Research Consultant Shaw Food Solutions Newport Shropshire TF10 8NB www.fooddeserts.org -----Original Message----- From: Pamela Shurmer-Smith <[log in to unmask]> To: CRIT-GEOG-FORUM <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 14:37 Subject: imperial revenues Anyone in Historical Geography know how one goes about finding the amount of revenue acquired by Britain from its various colonies in the 1940s & 50s? I think Northern Rhodesia, with its copper, was an important wartime and post-war contributor but, try as I might, I can't work out how to verify this. (Just needed for a line in what I'm currently writing) Pam Pamela Shurmer-Smith