IanC1 A new website drawing on the Anti-Apartheid Movement archive at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, has been launched at a reception at South Africa House, London, on 20th March. ‘Forward to Freedom: the history of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1959-1994’ (http://www.aamarchives.org) features video, documents, posters, photographs, badges and other items and interviews with 30 … Read more
An exhibition of photographs from Rwanda has opened at Kings College London. The photographs have resulted from a workshop organised by international photographers Andrew Esiebo and Brendan Bannon, which asked people in Rwanda to take photographs representing their lives, and to present images of Rwanda to an international audience. The images show economic change in … Read more
A collection of African Blue Books has been digitised by Microform Academic Publishers and made available on their British Online Archives database. The collection covers 13 former colonies and protectorates, with volumes dating from 1821 to 1953. ‘Blue Book’ is the name given to the annual statistical reports which governors were required to compile. The … Read more