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The Ruth First Papers Project: digitising the Ruth First archive

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  • Vanessa Rockel
  • Matt Mahon

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Soon after Ruth First was murdered in 1982 an appeal went out for funds to create a Trust in Ruth's name. In the 1980s the Trust found a home for Ruth's papers and documents at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) in London under Shula Marks' directorship. The hope was that the archive would be part of a centre that would study southern African liberation, continuing work that had been brutally cut short by Ruth's murder in Maputo. In 2012 the ICwS launched the Ruth First Papers Project, which aims to digitise the archive of Ruth's papers. A dedicated website was established where the first selection of documents has been made available for anyone (anywhere) to consult. In this brief introduction, Rockel and Mahon - researchers on the project - describe the process of selecting documents for digitisation and the experience of encountering Ruth in the archives.

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  • Vanessa Rockel & Matt Mahon, 2014. "The Ruth First Papers Project: digitising the Ruth First archive," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 41(139), pages 12-17, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:41:y:2014:i:139:p:12-17
    DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2014.878073
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