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- 1878 - 1960 (Creación)
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15 boxes and 2 volumes
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William Hills (1869-1959)
William Hills came to South Africa in 1895 as reporter for the "Port Elizabeth Advertiser", and thereafter worked on several newspapers in Pretoria, Port Elizabeth and Durban. He served as special war correspondent in the last campaign against the Zulu in Magatoland 1898 and interviewed Cecil Rhodes after the Jameson Raid. Later he formed the Amalgamated Press in 1921, and was the editor of 6 Rand papers. He undertook extensive tours overseas which were reported in his chain of newspapers. William Hills was interested in matters of education, religion, labour movement.
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66 notebooks containing his diary from 1888-1959. While primarily a record of personal and family events, the diaries include references to political and social events of the day. Also 10 photograph albums of tours by Hills 1936-1956 to various parts of the world; correspondence with family, friends and others on his journalistic career and on subjects such as religion, education and the labour movement. Correspondents include Bishop G. Clayton, J. Keir Hardie, Sir R. Jones, Bishop A.B.L. Karney, Sir E. Oppenheimer and L. Weinthal.
Also personal documents, printed items and notebooks.
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Alternate title: Hills, William