Fonds A2986 - History Workshop, Multimedia collection

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ZA HPRA A2986

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History Workshop, Multimedia collection

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  • 1980 - 1989 (Creation)

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Form of materialSlide tape shows

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(1977-)

Administrative history

The History workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, is a group of loosely constituted interdisciplinary academics and associated researchers, involved in a range of heritage and public history projects. Since its inception in 1977 it has been promoting research into the lives, experiences and social worlds of people and communities in South Africa, to address the erasures of colonialism and apartheid.

Their website can be found here https://www.wits.ac.za/history-workshop/ .

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Sets of slides with taped commentaries, received from the Multi-media library in July 2003.

These shows were made for the History Workshop in the late 1970s and 1980, some in association with the American Social History Project.

There is a detailed description of each show in the History Workshop Media Centre catalogue (hard copy only), stored in Room 2.

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The digital copies of the audio cassettes may be accessed by contacting Historical Papers. Please refer to the Contacts on the Historical Papers website.

The reference/call number for the digital file is the number on the left of each entry.

NOTE: The tapes in this collection have been digitised. Please refer to the list of digitised audio material on our website.

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The digitisation of the audio recordings in this collection was made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 2012

The digitisation of the cassette audio tapes for this collection was made possible by a generous grant from the Carnegie Foundation.

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