The papers contain memoranda which illustrate the organisation of the Ossewa Brandwag, how it was set up and functioned. There are photographs (unidentified) of parades and festivals. In the printed section there are newsletters and periodicals which amongst other cover the split with the Nationalists as well as the aims of the movement.

Report of the first National Conference of Women, 1954; memoranda and press clippings on women's rights, passes, women's disturbances in natal 1959; "Women's subsistence production and the capitalist economy: Transvaal Bantustans" by F. Mkhombo; "Disposable nannies? Some questions on the role of domestic servants in the political economy of South Africa" by J. Cock.

The papers consist partly of administrative records and partly of the records of political actions undertaken by Black Sash. There is also a large part of press cuttings and scrap books.

The "Audible Legacy" Project aimed to capture the memories and experiences of the people involved in the formative stages of South Africa's Constitutional Court, to record in comprehensive, reliable and accessible form their memories of how an abstract constitutional ideal was converted into a functioning constitutional organism.

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

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.

The collection of James Humphreys contains company reports, notices to shareholders, articles in mining journals, press clippings, correspondence and photographs relating to the mining of gold, coal, metals, minerals and precious jewels in South Africa, Bechuanaland, Nyasaland, Rhodesia and East Africa.

Subject matter includes metallurgy, geology, mineralogy, mining law and legislation, labour and the recruiting of Black labour, mining history, personalities and Rand Pioneers and mining groups, covering the years 1926-1967.