This collection consists of approximately 368 tape recordings of interviews, conducted in the course of oral research projects, undertaken by the History workshop in the Department of History at the University of the Witwatersrand. They were donated to Historical Papers in 2005.

No background information for most of the projects is available and no audit sheets have been received. A list of interviewees is available with the hardcopy inventory and notes about the collection.

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.

This collection records social history in South Africa from circa 1880-1970.