APARTHEID resources at SHL and beyond

Monograph material relevant to this course is to be found primarily within the Senate House Library History collection and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection. Both are extensive research level collections and contain both secondary and primary resources.

• History collection• History books on open access are

located on the 5th floor, continuing onto the Periodicals Room gallery, 4th floor, below. Books housed in the stacks and off-site can be requested through the library catalogue.

• Books are mainly for loan, but some are for Reference Only use within the Library.

• You will often find loanable copies of books which are Reference Only in the Commonwealth Studies collection.

• Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection

• This is an area studies collection located on the 6th floor of the library.

• Books housed in the stacks and off-site can be requested through the library catalogue.

• Books from this particular collection are for Reference Only use and may not be borrowed, but photocopying facilities are available.

• N.B. Loanable copies of some items may be found in the History collection

useful classmark areas to browse – a sample selection

Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection• DT779 – general material on South African history,

but also apartheid-related writings, speeches, letters, accounts, autobiographies from activists, politicians, religious leaders, journalists, political prisoners, civil rights workers and others eg Steve Biko, the S. African Communist leader Sidney Bunting, De Klerk, Michael Dingake, Ruth First, Kathrada, Lembede, Luthuli, Mandela and more.

• DT1701-2405 South Africa, history

• DT1757 Apartheid

• HT 1543-1548 race-relations

• JQ1870-3981 Africa, politics eg ANC

eg 75 years of struggle/Oliver Tambo JQ2024 TAM

SHL History collection• OV Southern Africa, history

• OVBG Apartheid

• OVBG AFR African National Congress

• OVBG UDF United Democratic Front

• OVBT S. Africa history 1901-61 • OVBU 1914-26

• OVBV S. Africa history 1926-61

• OVBW S. Africa history 1961-

Examples:

• OVBW BIK (Biko) The testimony of Steve Biko

• OVBW MAN (Mandela) Long walk to freedom : the autobiography of Nelson Mandela

• OVBW1 Dav The struggle for South Africa : a reference guide to movements, organizations and institutions / Robert Davies, Dan O'Meara, Sipho Dlamini.

Primary source material may be found in:

• Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection • SHL History collection • Special Collections

Primary source material ? • generally: written/created at a time contemporary or nearly contemporary with

the period being studied by individuals/groups involved in events at the time• material can include: diaries, interviews, speeches, auto-biographies, letters,

newspapers, news reports, government reports, legislation, political ephemera such as posters, leaflets and pamphlets, manuscripts, published works, trial statements, statistics, maps etc. Such material may also have been digitised and be available online.

[Secondary source material interprets and analyses primary sources and is one or more steps removed from the event. Secondary source material may contain reproductions of primary source material e.g. speeches, quotes, documents, pictures, or graphics of primary sources]

Examples of primary source material in the Commonwealth Studies collection: personal accounts, speeches, diaries, trial statements etc. by activists, political refugees• No easy walk to freedom : articles, speeches and trial addresses of Nelson Mandela / foreword by Ahmed

Ben Bella ; introduction by Oliver Tambo ; edited by Ruth First. ICOMM 6th Floor DT779.4.M2 MAN REFERENCE ONLY• The long way home / AnnMarie Wolpe ICOMM 6th Floor DT779.4.W5 WOL REFERENCE ONLY• One hundred and seventeen days : an account of confinement and interrogation under the South African

ninety-day detention law/Ruth First ICOMM 6th Floor HT1545 FIR REFERENCE ONLY• Conversations with myself / Nelson Mandela ; with a foreword by Barack Obama ICOMM 6th Floor DT779.4.M2 MAN REFERENCE ONLY• The struggle is my life : his speeches and writings brought together with historical documents and accounts

of Mandela in prison by fellow-prisoners/Nelson Mandela ICOMM 6th Floor DT779.4.M2 MAN REFERENCE ONLY• The jail diary of Albie Sachs/Albie Sachs ICOMM 6th Floor DT776.S1 SAC REFERENCE ONLY• The sun will rise : statements from the dock by Southern African political prisoners / edited by Mary Benson. ICOMM 6th Floor JC311 BEN REFERENCE ONLY

Examples of primary source material in the SHL History collection• Honorary white : a visit to South Africa / E. R. Braithwaite (London : Bodley Head, 1975) HISTORY (SHL) 4th Floor PERIODICALS ROOM GALLERY (63) OVBG Bra S. Africa lifted the ban on books written by the Guyanese author in 1973, and granted him a visa with the status “honorary white”. This book is an account of his experiences during his visit.

• South Africa : a skunk among nations / Les de Villiers (London : International Books, 1975)HISTORY (SHL) 4th Floor PERIODICALS ROOM GALLERY (63) OVBG De written by a former Senior Deputy Secretary of Information in Pretoria: view that the international community applied double standards in its dealings with S. Africa

• Apartheid: a collection of writings on South African racism by South Africans / edited by Alex La Guma (London : Lawrence and Wishart, 1972)

HISTORY (SHL) 4th Floor PERIODICALS ROOM GALLERY (63) OVBG Lag

• Hell-hole, Robben Island : reminiscences of a political prisoner / Moses Dlamini, prisoner no. 872/63 (Nottingham : Spokesman, 1984)

HISTORY (SHL) 4th Floor PERIODICALS ROOM GALLERY (63) OVBW DLA

Senate House Library’s Special Collections contain a very wide range of primary source material on Apartheid that has been donated to the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

Using Special Collections materialThe Reading Room is located on the 4th floor of SHL, and has different opening hours to the rest of SHL. Information on opening hours, and a guide to using Special Collections (including details of how to request material) are available here:http://senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/our-collections/historic-collections/using-historic-collections/

This page also has links to enable you to search Manuscripts and Archives and tosearch books, pamphlets, periodicals.

Contact information:By email: shl.historiccollections@london.ac.ukBy telephone:+44 (0)20 7862 8470

- A sample of Special Collections materials held - these are in a variety of formats: monographs, pamphlets, political ephemera, mss, archival materials, microform, photographs etc.

• The Ruth First Papers (the collected papers and writings of the anti-apartheid activist Ruth First) N.B. The Ruth First Papers Project has a dedicated webpage and digital archive where you can view those papers that have been digitised, not just from this collection, but from the collections of project partners: http://www.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk/• Mandela Trials Papers (photocopies of papers collected by Joel Joffe, the lawyer acting

for Mandela at the Pretoria and Rivonia trials).• Mary Benson Papers (mainly correspondence between Benson, an anti-apartheid

campaigner, and fellow South African activists)• The Ron Heisler collection has material on South Africa (you could do a mixed

classmark search on [Heisler] (for books) or [Heisler] P for pamphlets, and limit by subject headings such as ‘apartheid’).

Political Ephemera

Special Collections include a range of political ephemera in both pamphlet and poster format.

Some of these have been digitised and can be viewed online here This is a result of the joint Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute for the Study of the Americas (now ILAS) Political Archives Project, set up with the aim of improving access to and increasing use of their extensive collections of political ephemera.

The image opposite is an example from the ICS collection of ANC materials.

South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission selections from this primary source are to be found in a published monograph, and the full Report is available online, as are a selection of media reports and news broadcasts on the TRC from the time

• Selections from this primary source can be found here:

Truth and reconciliation in South Africa : the fundamental documents / selected, introduced and annotated by Erik Doxtader and Philippe-Joseph Salazar. [Claremont, South Africa : New Africa Books, 2007] ICOMM 6th Floor DT1974.2 TRU REFERENCE ONLY

• The full Report of the TRC is available online via the link below, together with media reports from the time: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC),set up by the Government of National Unity to help deal with what happened under apartheid, has its homepage here: http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/

• Also available online: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Videotape Collection features 84 episodes of news broadcasts assembled by journalist Max Du Preez, covering the history and activities of the Commission. The site features finding aids to the collection, summaries of each tape, and full-length Flash videos of each episode http://trc.law.yale.edu/index.htm

Newspapers• Newspapers and alternative newspapers are useful primary sources

to use to interpret the apartheid era• Examples include:• The Independent Newspapers’ submission to the TRC can be viewed

here http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/hrvtrans/submit/inc.htm• The Times Digital Archive 1795-1985 is available via SHL• The British Library has a range of South African Newspapers • NewsBank: Access World News – another database available at the

BL - contains full-text newspaper and periodical articles, wire services, magazines, and more, from Africa (and other countries)• African Newspapers, 1800-1922 – this database is available at the BL

and contains a range of South African newspapers

Government documents – 2 examples

• Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980

SHL has obtained a free trial of this database until 6 March 2015 and you can access it via the link at the bottom of the SHL databases page:

Apartheid South Africa provides comprehensive coverage of the British files on the apartheid Governments of South Africa from 1948 onward. These formerly restricted documents, sourced from The National Archives, UK, provide unprecedented levels of detail, with in-depth analysis of events, international reaction and policy dilemmas, accompanied by numerous first-hand accounts and reports.

The BL is acquiring this database and it will be available there from March 2015

•Available at the BL

Africa: Confidential Print 1834-1966

This database consists of the core records relating to British government decision-making on Africa between 1834 and 1966

Legislation

• The Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory webpages list Apartheid-related documents and reports in chronological order and a selection of these has been digitised - see https://www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv01538/04lv01600.htm

The site covers legislation from 1806 -1947

• SAHO – South African History Online has a synopsis of Apartheid legislationhttp://www.sahistory.org.za/politics-and-society/apartheid-legislation-1850s-1970s

Media

News broadcasts are available online:

Examples include:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/apartheid/

Documentary films on ApartheidExamples include:Apartheid: Adapt or DieDeath of Apartheid (US title: Mandela's Fight For Freedom)

Some material has been downloaded onto www.youtube.com and may be useful

An example of an anti-apartheid movement’s archive now available online

British Anti-Apartheid Movement - http://www.aamarchives.org/

The website Forward to Freedom: the history of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement 1959- 1994 tells the story of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and its campaigns to support the people of South Africa in their fight against apartheid. The AAM also campaigned for freedom for Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Angola, and against South Africa’s attacks on its neighbours.On this website you can find out how hundreds of thousands of people all over Britain took part in anti-apartheid activities. You can watch demonstrations and concerts, and hear from some of those involved.

If you have any queries about the Commonwealth Studies collection please contact me:Christine.Anderson@london.ac.uk

For Special Collections enquiries please contact:shl.historiccollections@london.ac.uk