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The main purpose of the British Documents on the End of Empire Project (BDEEP) is to publish documents from British official archives on the ending of colonial rule and the context in which this took place. This publication is the first part of a two-volume set (ISBN 0112905889) which traces British policy towards Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) and Nyasaland (Malawi) from the end of the Second World War to the unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) by Southern Rhodesia in 1965, including the role of the Central African Federation. This publication contains documents from the years 1945 to 1958.