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- 1978-1999 (Creation)
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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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The Wits History Workshop in 1978 introduced what would result in a series of conferences. Their focus was to present and discuss historical, sociological, political, literary, economic and anthropological aspects of the lives and experiences of the ordinary people mainly on the Witwatersrand and the larger region of the Transvaal. Initially these conferences were spaced at an interval of three years, and subsequently took place in 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1999.
This collection seeks to consolidate the programs and papers that were presented at each of the thematic conferences.
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Permission to publish must be obtained from the Wits History Workshop and the authors.
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Most of the originally printed papers are located in the resource centre of the History Workshop. Other copies are available in the University's William Cullen Library.
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Archivist's note
The upload of the digitised papers remains work in progress.