Welcome! Please not that this website will be migrating soon - see News item!
We are one of the most comprehensive public archives in Southern Africa, with over 3400 collections from NGOs, trade unions, political parties, women's organisations, church bodies, human rights activists and political trials. Many of the photographs, press clippings, oral interviews, and documents, have been digitised and can be accessed on our digital platform 'AtoM', an acronymn for Access to Memory. More
In 2019 Historical Papers was part of an initiative launching ‘A People's Guide to Archives in South Africa’, which can be accessed through the Historical Papers NEWS item no. 2.
On the 17 February 2011 Historical Papers and Museum Africa jointly held the opening of the FOSATU exhibition and the book launch of 'The future is in the Hands of the Workers' A History of FOSATU'. You can now download the book for FREE.
NEWS
OUR WEBSITE IS MIGRATING!
This website, which you have been accumstomed to over so many years, has reached its end of lifespan. We are now migrating to the Wits University Content Management System, where we will present ourselves in a whole new way.
You can access us through the Wits Library website, by browsing through the branches: www.wits.ac.za/library
Or you can go directly to www.wits.ac.za/historicalpapers
