Significant recent accessions to the Sudan Archive are reported on this blog. You are warmly encouraged to visit us or to get in touch, whether to further your own research, to suggest additional records we should try to collect, or to make a donation to the collections yourself.
Items marked with an asterisk are accruals to existing collections, details of the careers of which persons can be found published in the Summary Guide to the Sudan Archive or in each of their collections’ catalogues. Acquisitions of recent publications are not generally noted but are nevertheless received with deep thanks. Accessions generally remain uncatalogued for a period of time, but can usually be accessed on request. Newly digitised material from the collections is published online most weeks and can be browsed here.
• Donald Savile, Khartoum University (1963-1967): “A southern Sudan journey", a short memoir of a 4-week trip in Zandeland in the Spring of 1954
• Charles Benjamin Metcalfe (1913-1995), Inspector and Senior Inspector of Agriculture (1936-1955): photographs, cine-film, books, coin collection
• Paul Doornbos (1950-2018), anthropologist: academic papers, books
• David C. Driver (1922-2005), Sudan Political Service (1944-1955): books, newspaper cutting, Sennar Dam / Gezira presentation photograph album
• *Arthur Hugh Alban Alban (1892-1978), Sudan Political Service (1921-1942), British Consul at Gore, Ethiopia (1942-1952): Mahdist banner, Ethiopian shield
• *Tarik A.K.A. Elhadd: Arabic translation of Itchy Feet - a doctor's tale by Dr Alexander Cruickshank (first published in 1991), translated by Dr Elhadd
• Purchased at auction: 406 photographs taken by a manager of the Sudan Mercantile Company (Motors), 1920s x 1930s; includes 1 album (24 prints) of Uganda and South Sudan
• Purchased at auction: 5 albumen prints by the Zangaki Brothers depicting Suakin scenes, [late 19th century]
• John Ryle: Sudan Council of Churches report on Yirol Integrated Rural Development Programme, [lead author Mark Johnson] (1980)
• Ludmilla Jordanova: Key plan of military areas in Khartoum, Khartoum North, and Omdurman (July 1942) (70.5 x 100.5 cm)
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