Today marks the 28th anniversary of South Africa’s first post-apartheid elections, now commemorated as Freedom Day. Previously, under the apartheid regime, non-whites in general had only limited voting rights, while black South Africans were unable to vote at all. The…
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Freedom Day – new perspectives on apartheid from the BLDS Legacy Collection
Tagged with: African history, African pamphlets, Apartheid, Independence, South Africa
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies)
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies)
We’ll meet again – or how I gambled away Vera Lynn’s autograph and ended up in a Zambian jungle with a bunch of hippies…
By Danny Millum – BLDS Metadata and Discovery Officer Normally when you tell your family / friends about what you do, unless you’re a fireman or a nurse they just zone out (especially when your job title is Metadata Discovery…
Tagged with: African journals, African pamphlets, Burma, Zambia
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS, The Library