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.
• Jean Brown Sassoon, anthropologist: Southern Sudan (Yei, Wau, Mundri districts) agricultural development reports and plans, produced by Booker Agriculture International Ltd for the Sudan Government, and by the Planning Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Juba (1981-1985)
• Catherine Durnford: Papers and photographs of Rev. Francis Henry Durnford (1882-1969) and his wife Lucy Victoria Carless (1893-1988), including photographs of the railway Saloon Church (1920s-1930s)
• *Cunnison family: audio recordings made by anthropologist Prof. Ian Cunnison (1923-2013) in N. Rhodesia (Zambia) (1940s)
• Michael Rupp, missionary: printed items on the history of Sudan and wider Africa (1940s-2010s)
• Online newsletters of Episcopal Church and missionary organisations active in Sudan and South Sudan (2010s)
• Paula Gibson, Marianne Nicol, Alida England: papers, photographs and ephemera of D.A.F. Watt (c.1877-1942), hydraulic engineer, River Nile (principally in Egypt) (c.1900-1939)
• *Margo Russell: photographs of public events at Acholi, Torit, Malakal, Kapoeta, Yambio and [Juba], Southern Sudan (1970s)
• *Carol Sarsfield-Hall: Sudanese objects collected by E.G. Sarsfield-Hall (1886-1975), Sudan Political Service 1909-1936
• SOS Sahel International UK: Maps, photographs, and printed items relating to the work of this NGO, particularly relating to desertification and conciliation (1932-1936, 1975-2013)
• The New Military Game of Gordon-Kitchener or the Conquest of the Soudan board game (c.1898)
Sir William Luce Fellowship: the 2019 Sir William Luce Fellow was Philip Winter O.B.E. and whose paper is published here 'A Border Too Far: the Ilemi Triangle yesterday and today'. The 2022 Sir William Luce Fellow will be Dr Katie Hickerson. Her lecture, on 16 June 2022, will be on the topic ‘Mortal Struggles: death rites and imperial formations in Sudan, 1865-1935’. The annual lectures in this series – on subjects relating to East Africa and the Gulf – are open to all and if you wish to attend please contact us.
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