The collection includes personal material of Ruth First and her immediate family, papers relating to First's work as a journalist in South Africa, as a university lecturer, an anti-apartheid activist, and as an author and editor of numerous books and articles on Africa and other political topics, 1946-1982. The collection also includes research papers and printed material relating to First and her family, collected both during her lifetime and after her death. Principally comprising Original Deposit (RF 1): biographical material, 1964-1983 (RF 1/1); personal and family papers 1946-1982 (RF 1/2); personal correspondence 1960-1982 (RF 1/3) correspondents include Joe Slovo (1960-1978), Gillian Slovo (1965-1982), Robyn Slovo (c1965-1982), Bram Fischer (1971-1974), Gavin Williams (1975-1981); newspaper journalism, 1946-1982, comprising issues and selected cuttings from South African Communist Party newspapers The Guardian, 19446-1951, Clarion, Jul-Aug 1952, People's World, Oct 1952, Advance, Nov 1952 - Jan 1953, New Age, 1960-1962 and Spark, Jan-Mar 1963 (RF 1/4); work for magazines, book reviews, and other short pieces, 1962-1980 (RF 1/5); papers on publications researched or edited by First, including South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt by Govan Mbeki, 1963-1977, No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, 1964-1973, Not Yet Uluru: The Autobiography of Oginga Odinga, 1963-1968, South West Africa: Travesty of Trust edited by First and Ronald Segal, 1966-1967 (RF 1/6); papers on books written by First, including South West Africa, 1963-1976, 117 Days, 1964-1969, The Barrel of a Gun: Political Power in Africa, 1965-1973, Libya: the Elusive Revolution, 1971-1976, The South African Connection: Western Investment in Apartheid, 1970-1975, Olive Schreiner: a Biography, co-authored with Ann Scott, 1955-1981, Black Gold: the Mozambican Miner, Proletarian and Peasant, 1946-1983 (RF 1/7); papers on propopsed publications by First, including Vulnerability of African Independence 1969-1970, Power over Africa, 1970-1972, The African Predicament: a Reader, 1970-1973 (RF 1/8); papers on First's assistance with various publications, 1964-1975 (RF 1/9); scripts and associated correspondence relating to First's television and radio work, 1963-1976, particularly Ninety Days a BBC television broadcast based on First's period of detention in South Africa under the 90 Day Law, 1963-1966 (RF 1/10); papers on non-academic conferences and seminars, 1964-1978 (RF 1/11; papers on First's lecture tours of Sweden, 1965-1966, Denmark, 1971, and the USA, 1974 (RF 1/12); papers on conferences and seminars, 1965-1981 (RF 1/13); papers on First's academic career, 1964-1980, particularly as lecturer in development studies at the University of Durham, 1973-1978, and at the African Studies Centre, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, 1975-1982 (RF 1/14); resource material on South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Algeria, Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Tanzania, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, sociology and including copies of articles, seminar papers, newspaper cuttings, notes and drafts (RF 1/15); papers on bibliographical work, including correspondence, notes, catalogues and bibliographies (RF 1/16); papers on political organisations of which First was a member Native Representative Council [1945-1946], the African National Congress (ANC), [1959]-1982, the South African Communist Party (SACP) [1965-1971], the Pan-Africanist Congress [1967-1973] and the Anti-Apartheid Movement [1970-1971] (RF 1/17); papers on political prisoners in South Africa, 1955-1973 (RF 1/18); newspaper cuttings from British and South African newspapers, mainly covering political issues in South Africa, 1947-1982; the Rosalynde Ainslie Collection (RF 2); mainly research material accumulated by First during her professional career, covering a wide range of African and political subjects, but also including personal correspondence and press cuttings; personal correspondence with friends, family and acquaintances 1947-1976, including letters to First from her daughters Shawn, Gillian and Robyn, 1968-1975 (RF 2/1); papers on First's work as a journalist, 1946-1959 (RF 2/2); correspondence and papers on Joe Slovo's work as an advocate and political campaigner, 1951-1976 (RF 2/3); papers on book Not Yet Uluru: The Autobiography of Oginga Odinga, edited by First (RF 2/4); research papers on miners in Mozambique, mainly carried out by First in association with Dave Wield and Mark Wuyts at the African Studies Centre, University Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, 1964-1980 (RF 2/5); papers on First's academic career at the University of Durham, 1973-1978 (RF 2/6); papers on First's work on the Editorial Working Group of the Review of African Political Economy (ROAPE), 1974-1978 (RF 2/7); United Nations correspondence and papers, [1964-1982], including copy of First's statement to the Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of South Africa, 1964 (RF 2/8); research material on South African law enforcement, 1953-1966 (RF 2/9); research material on South Africa, Apartheid and the ANC, 1936-1976 (RF 2/10); research material on outside investment in South Africa, [1972-1978] (RF 2/11); research material on South African labour and trade unions, [1949-1976] (RF 2/12); South Africa seminar papers, 1968-1978 (RF 2/13); South African Institute of Race Relations publications, 1956-1963 (RF 2/14); Anti-Apartheid movement publications, 1963-1978 (RF 2/15); papers and articles relating to Southern Africa, 1965-1978 (RF 2/16); research material on South West Africa/Namibia, 1960-1974 (RF 2/17); research material on Portugese Africa (Mozambique, Angola), 1961-1976 (RF 2/18); research material on Zimbabwe, 1969-1985 (RF 2/19); research material on Ghana, 1966-1976 (RF 2/20); research material on Libya, 1969-1975 (RF 2/21); research material on Sudan, 1958-1972 (RF 2/22); research material on land use and urban development in Kampala, Uganda, 1964-1970 (RF 2/24); research material on Latin America, 1966-1972 (RF 2/25); research material on Brazil, 1973-1976 (RF 2/26); research material on Chile, 1971-1976 (RF 2/27); academic papers on Cuba, 1971-1976 (RF 2/28); research material on Peru, 1967-1977 (RF 2/29); research material on unions, strikes, and workers, 1966-1978 (RF 2/30); research material on military power, mainly in Africa, some material on Asia and Latin America, [1963-1977] (RF 2/31); newspapers and newslatters, 1933-1976 (RF 2/32); Africa Bureau publications, 1970-1975 (RF 2/33); International Defence and Aid Fund publications, 1969-1977 (RF 2/34); Liberation Support Movement publications, 1974 (RF 2/35); pamphlets, 1965-1984 (RF 2/36); Learn and Teach [South African adult literacy organisation] publications, 1983-1985 (RF 2/37); miscellaneous research material, 1965-1975 (RF 2/38); speech notes [1963-1980] (RF 2/39); Other Deposits, 1944-1991 (RF 3) includes some of First's correspondence and working papers, and secondary material created after her death, including papers of the Ruth First Memorial Trust; Reference material (RF 4), mainly printed pamphlets, reports and journals on Namibia, 1958-1973, South Africa, 1944-1981, South African legislation, 1957-1959, South African Government Gazettes, 1962-1965, reprints and official publications, 1957-1986; Open University course material: Great Britain 1750-1950 [1974], the letters of Olive Schreiner, 1889-[c1919]; material deposited by Alice Bernstein (RF 5), mainly printed material collected after First's death, 1957-1991; Don Pinnock interview transcripts (RF 6); printed copies of interviews with prominent South African figures, carried out by Pinnock whilst working at Grahamstown University, 1987-1993; Kate Carey interview transcripts (RF 7); printed copies of interviews with Rosalynde de Lanerolle [nee Ainslie] and Mannie Brown, 1993.

Typescript copy of memorandum, dated 7 Feb 1961, to Minister of Native Affairs, Southern Rhodesia concerning compensation for financial losses by 28 former political detainees and restrictees (released in 1961) during their two year detention, the failure of Native Commissioners to look after their property during their detention, the cancellation of the allowance paid to detainees families during their imprisonment, and their difficulty in obtaining employment.

Papers of Hans Schwarz, 1947-1970, comprises copies of a catalogue of the Hans Schwarz Archiv; annual report of the Komitee Ehemaliger Politischer Gefangener and obituaries of Hans Schwarz.

Archives du Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (ACICR) collection, 1939-1952, comprises files, reports and correspondence on the following subject areas: general background on hostages and political detainees; hostages and political detainees in Germany; hostages and political detainess by country and nationality (except Germany); assistance to hostages and political detainees; repatriations of deported; case files (all nationalities); civil war in Greece.

Correspondence of Irmgard Litten, mother of the lawyer Hans Litten (1903-1938), regarding attempts to secure his release from prison, including a letter dated 11 February 1938 from Dachau, containing a list Hans Litten's personal effects.

Copies of papers documenting the time spent by Karl Wittig in concentration camps during the Nazi era, 1938-1947, including letters to his wife and sworn statements, including by Martin Niemöller that he knew Karl Wittig as a political prisoner in Sachsenhausen concentration camp.

Photocopy of statement by Tony Masaba, a member of the Ugandan National Security Agency during the regime of President (Apollo) Milton Obote, 1980-1985; giving an account of his work on Obote's personal staff, and an account of the activities of Uganda's security organisations, National Security Agency (NASA) and Military Intelligence and Security during Obote's Government.

Papers of Benjamin Turok, South African educationalist and politician, relating to his political involvements in South Africa (1961-1981) and biographical tapes and transcripts (1983-1984): including African National Congress (ANC) speeches, publications, press releases, and other material, 1971-1981; papers of the Institute for Industrial Education, Durban, 1974-1978; papers of the Communist Party of South Africa, 1978 and undated; papers of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, 1971-1973; correspondence, 1971-1980, with Oliver Tambo and others, mainly on ANC activities; transcripts of audio tapes of biographical material.

Photocopies of papers of A L Saffery on the trade union movement in South Africa, particularly the black trade union movement in the 1930s and early 1940s and the internment of Max Gordon, a trade unionist, 1940-1941.

Papers of Didymus Mutasa, on Rhodesian politics, 1970-1973; including papers on his detention, 1970-1972; correspondence on the possibility of suing the British Government for his detention, 1973; letter to Sir Alec Douglas Home, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on Rhodesia, 1973; correspondence with Lady Tweedsmuir on Rhodesia/UK relations, 1973

Correspondence and papers of Eric Ditmar Tappe, 1946-1979, comprising:
Correspondence and papers of Maria Golescu, 1946-1979, including correspondence with Tappe and other correspondents, publications sent to Golescu by Stefan Nenitescu and notebook containing excerpts from her correspondence. The correspondence is mainly personal in nature but some references to Romanian people and politics particularly the fate of political prisoners
Correspondence between Tappe and Professor Emil Turdeanu, Professor of Romanian Language and Literature at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1948-1972
Correspondence with other Romanian academics and exiles and general correspondence (1948-c1985)
Papers relating to the Romanian language, literature and history
General background notes on Romania
Papers relating to Tappe's publications and public lectures
Papers relating to SSEES and the University of London and Tappe's visits to Romania and international conferences

Copies of correspondence, 9 Feb 1944-4 Jun 1944, between the Emergency-Bureau for the Rescue of German Anti-Nazi Refugees and the British Foreign Office regarding the fate of Heinrich Richard Albrecht Kraschutski and documenting the attempts made to effect the passage of Kraschutski into safe hands.

Papers of the African National Congress, 1920-1976; comprising;

1. Papers of South African Indian organisations - resolutions, reports, petitions, memoranda, conference proceedings and agenda, etc., of the South African Indian Congress (1946, 1956), South African Indian Organisation (1951, 1959), Transvaal Indian Congress (1939-1963), Natal Indian Congress (1940-1961), Colonial Born and Settlers' Indian Association (1933-1934), South African Passive Resistance Council (1946), South African Indian Conference (1948), etc.
   2. Treason Trials (1954-1961) - including Treason Trial Defence Fund papers, papers relating to evidence, addresses at Natal Indian Congress and ANC conferences (1954), letters to Thomas Hodgkin in Oxford, England, mainly from Michael Parkington regarding the trial (1959)
   3. Miscellaneous Documents (1953, 1972-1976) - mainly ANC public statements and publicity material
2. Government of India, Department of Education, Health and Lands, Overseas Section/Branch - microfilm copy of files from National Archives of India relating to Indians in South Africa.

Papers of Baruch Hirson chiefly comprising thirty six boxes of research notes including manuscript notes, typescript drafts and photocopies, arranged by subject on topics including South African politics, trade unions, racism, imperialism, industry and economics. The collection also includes seminar papers by Hirson given at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies; photocopies of correspondence on Hirson's appointment as a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, 1960; photocopy of memoranda written by Dennis Goldberg to the South African Commission of Inquiry into the Penal System from political prisoners in Pretoria Local prison, [1974]; photocopies of material on the Soweto riots, 1976, collected by Hirson while working on his book Year of Fire, year of Ash: the Soweto revolt; roots of a revolution (1979), including press cuttings, published and unpublished papers on the riots, and material produced by the Soweto Students' Representative Council and other groups including the African National Congress (ANC), Black Peoples Convention, Cape Town University Students' Representative Council, the Black Parents Association, the University of Natal Medical Students' Representative Council and the National Union of South African Students. Also archives on South African politics, history, trade unions and social conditions; also comprising papers and correspondence used in Hirson's research. Topics include Workers' International League, Communist Party of South Africa, Workers' Party, Trotskyism in South Africa, Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, Ruth and Amy Schechter, Cecil Frank Glass, David Ivon Jones, African Peoples Organisation, Workers Dreadnought, women's suffrage movement in South Africa, South Africa and the First World War, Mary Fitzgerald, miners in South Africa (especially strike of 1946), migrant labour in South Africa, University of Bradford School of Peace Studies, South African Coloured Peoples Congress, Searchlight South Africa correspondence and accounts (c1988-c1992), Jack Halpern draft articles and correspondence (1956-1960). Also transcripts of interviews including James Philips, Lewis Nkosi, Louis Kreel, E. J. Burford, Eli Wienberg, Sam and Sarah Woolf, Dan Mokanyana, Pauline Podbury, Anne Bloch, M. B. Yengwa, Eileen Jaffe, John Gaetsewe, Jack Hodgson (June 1977), Guy Routh, and Joan Robinson/Schedrin.

Photocopies of papers collected by Joel Joffe, lawyer acting for Nelson Mandela, relating to Mandela's trial in Pretoria (1962) and the Rivonia Trial (1963-1964); including Mandela's application to have the Pretoria trial postponed, Oct 1962; Mandela's address to the court in mitigation of the sentence of five years imprisonment, detailing his political commitment and activities in the African National Congress (ANC), Nov 1962; copy of the indictment in the Rivonia Trial, initial statement made by Mandela to his lawyers, giving details of his early life; notes by Mandela on his life and ANC accociation; copy of Mandela's statement from the dock, signed by Mandela, manuscript notes by Mandela to use if he were sentenced to death, and manuscript notes by Mandela referring to the tribal council called Imbizo.

Constitutions, membership lists, newsletters, pamphlets and posters, 1952-1989, issued by the Central Organization of Trade Unions (Kenya), the Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners in Kenya, the Institute for Education in Democracy (Kenya), the Kenya Citizens' Association, the Kenya Pressure Group, the Nairobi African Advisory Council and the Voice of Kenya.

Singapore political material, from 1961 onwards, including posters, pamphlets, leaflets, newsletters, speeches, commemorative programmes, letters, reports, conference reports, manifestos, constitutions and aother miscellaneous election materials issued by the Barisan Sosialis, independent candidates, the National Solidarity Party (Singapore), the People's Action Party (Singapore), the People's Association Youth Movement (Singapore), the Singapore Chinese Party, the Singapore Malay National Organisation, the United Front (Singapore), the United National Front (Singapore) and the Workers' Party (Singapore).

The Endgame in Ireland archive, 1994-2001, consists of videotaped interviews, interview transcripts, videotapes and scripts of the transmitted programmes, press cuttings and published material relating to the peace process in Northern Ireland, 1981-2001. The interviewees are politicians from the mainland British Government, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and from the USA, and include:
Gerard (Gerry') Adams, President of Sinn Fein, Northern Ireland, 1983-; Bertie Ahern, Taoiseach of Ireland, 1997-; Dermot Ahern, Minister of State, Depart of Defence, Ireland, 1991-1992; Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister, 1997-; John (Gerard) Bruton, Taoiseach of Ireland, 1994-1997; Frederick Edward Robin Butler, Baron Butler of Brockwell, Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service, UK 1988-1998; William (Bill') Jefferson Clinton, President of the USA, 1993-2001; (John) Mark Durkan, Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Northern Ireland, 2001-; Garret Fitzgerald, Taoiseach of Ireland, 1981-1982 and 1982-1987; John Hume, Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), Northern Ireland, 1979-2001; Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1984-1985; Edward (Ted') Moore Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts, USA, 1962-; Martin McGuinness, Sinn Fein Member of Parliament for Ulster Mid, Northern Ireland, 1997-; Kenneth (Ken') Wiggins Maginnis, Baron Maginnis of Drumglass, Ulster Unionist Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 1983-2001;
John Major, UK Prime Minister, 1990-1997; Peter (Benjamin) Mandelson, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1999-2001; George John Mitchell, Senator from Maine, USA, 1980-1995; Majorie (Mo') Mowlem, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 1997-1999; Albert Reynolds, Taoiseach of Ireland, 1992-1994; Richard (Dick') Spring, Deputy Taoiseach of Ireland, 1982-1987 and 1993-1997; (William) David Trimble, Leader of Ulster Unionist Party, Northern Ireland, 1995-.

Pamphlets, reports, congress reports, documents, press cuttings, communiqués, and profiles, 1970 onwards, issued by Acción Cultural Popular, Acción Sindical del Atlántico, Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery Society for the Protection of Human Rights, Asamblea Nacional Popular, Colombia Human Rights Committee, Comité Costarricense de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Colombiano, Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos (Colombia), Comité por la Defensa de los Derechos del Hombre y de los Prisonieros Políticos en Colombia, Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC), Corporación Integral para el Desarrollo Cultural y Social (CODECAL), Grupo de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo (GIDE), Integración para el Desarrollo y la Acción Social, Movimiento 19 de Abril Conferencia Nacional (7th : 1979 : Colombia), Primer Encuentro Internacional de Comités-Colombia en el Exterior (1979 : Paris), Solidaritätskomitee mit Kolumbien (Austria), United Nations Working Group of Experts on Slavery, Union Revolucionaria Socialista.

Leaflets, pamphlets, reports, enquiry reports, congress reports, documents, programs, appeals, speeches, journals, newsletters, biographies, posters, booklets, address lists, official decress and statements, bulletins, resolutions, declarations, dossiers and miscellaneous other materials, 1965 onwards issued by Academia de Humanismo Cristiano, Academics for Chile, Action for Women in Chile, ADHU-CHILE, Agrupación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (Chile), Agrupación de Familiares de Exiliados (Concepción), Agrupación de Familiares de Presos Políticos, Agrupación Sindical Solidaridad Sector Vicuña Mackenna, Amnesty International, Arzobispado de Concepción, Arzobispado de Santiago, Asamblea Nacional de la Civilidad, Asociación Central de Pescadores de Coquimbo, Asociación de Derechos Humanos para Chile, Banco Central de Chile, Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Brazil and Repression in Latin America, Bloque Popular Unitario, Canadian Enquiry into Human Rights in Chile, Casa de Chile en México, Catholic Church, Catholic Institute for International Relations, CEDETIM, Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, Centro de Estudios Sociales (Santiago, Chile), Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de la Educación, Centro de Investigaciones Socioeconómicas (Chile), Chile Committee for Human Rights, Common Front for Latin America, Chile Campesino - CF, Chile Comunitario, Chile Information Bureau, Chile Lucha, Chile Sindical - CF, Chile Solidarity Campaign, Chilean Anti-Fascist Committee, Chilean Commission for Human Rights, Chilean Government, Chile-Komitee Aachen, Comisión Chilena de Derechos Humanos, Comisión International de Investigación de los Crímenes de la Junta Militar en Chile, Comisión Nacional contra la Tortura, Comisión para la defensa de los derechos humanos en Centroamérica, Comitato Vietnam, Comité Chileno de Solidaridad con la Resistencia Antifascista, Comité Chileno para el Congreso Mundial del Año Internacional de la Mujer, Comité de Defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo (Chile), Comité de Défense des Droits du Peuple (Chile), Comité de Derechos Humanos Oscar Romero, Comité de Soutien à la Lutte Révolutionnaire du Peuple Chilien, Comité Hondureño de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Chileno, Comité Juan Alsinam, Comité Nacional de Solidaridad y Apoyo a Chile, Communist Party of Great Britain, Conferencia Mundial de Solidaridad con Chile (1978 : Madrid), Consejería Nacional de Promoción Popular, Consejo Ejecutivo Presos Políticos, Coordinador Nacional de Juventudes, Coordinadora Nacional de Presos Políticos Chilenas (CNPP), Coordinadora Nacional Sindical (Chile), Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (Chile), Corporación para la Reforma Agraria (CORA), Council of Revolutionary Co-operation, Coventry Chilean Committee, Ecumenical Program for Inter-American Communication and Action, Escuela de Negocios de Valparaíso (Chile), FASIC (Agency), Federación de Sindicatos de Trabajadores de Maipu, La Fédération Mondiale de la Jeunesse Démocratique, Frente de Trabajadores Revolucionarios (Chile), Frente Unitario de Trabajadores (Chile), Fundación de Ayuda Social de las Iglesias Cristianas, Group of Solidarity with the Chilean Political Prisoners, Gruppe Internationale Marxisten, IDOC-North America Inc., Instituto Apostolico, Instituto Chileno de Educación Cooperativa, Instituto de Capacitación e Investigación en Reforma Agraria (Chile), Inter-church Committee on Human Rights in Latin America, International Commission of Enquiry into the crimes of the Military Junta in Chile, International Marxist Group, Joint Working Group for Refugees from Chile in Britain, Junta de Gobierno (Chile), Juventud Radical Revolucionaria, Juventad Socialista de Chile, Letelier-Moffitt Memorial Fund for Human Rights, Liga Comunista de Chile, Lutte ouvrière, Il Manifesto di Milano, MAPU (Chile), Militantes Trotskistas Chilenos, Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria (MAPU), Movimiento de Acción Popular Unitaria Obrero-Campesino (Partido MAPU-OC), Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (Chile), National Trade Union Co-Ordinating Committee (Chile), National Union of Mineworkers, Northampton Chile Solidarity Committee, Northern California Chile Coalition, Oficina de Planificación Nacional (Chile), Organización de Izquierda Cristiana de Chile, Organización de Presos Políticos Local de San Miguel (Mujeres)', Organización Poder Obrero de Chile, Panorama DDR, Partido Comunista de Chile, Partido Comunista Revolucionario de Chile, Partido Comunista Revolucionario (Marxista-Leninista) de Chile, Partido de Unità Proletaria, Partido Democrata Cristiano, Partido Socialista (Chile), Patriotic Front for National Liberation (Chile), Political Prisoners of Chile, Presos Politicos de Chile, Programa de Acción Solidaria (P.A.S.), Revolutionary Communist Group, Servicio Paz y Justicia en Chile, Sociedad de Profesionales Consultores (SUR), Society for Latin American Studies (Great Britain), Solidarity Committee of the GDR, Taller de Análisis Político Institucional, Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR), Teatro Popular Chileno, Tendance Marxiste Révolutionnaire Internationale, Unidad Popular, Unión Comunista, Unión de Jóvenes Democráticos, United Nations, Universidad de Chile, Women's Campaign for Chile, World Confederation of Labour, World Council of Churches, World University Service.

Argentina: Political Pamphlets Collection comprising reports, conference reports, pamphlets and histories, 1944- issued by Anglican Council of South America, Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (Argentina), Asociación de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Comisión Argentina para los Refugiados, Comité de Défense des Prisonniers Politiques Argentins, Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Southern Cone, Foro de Buenos Aires por la Vigencia de los Derechos Humanos and Juan Domingo Perón.

Papers concerning the persecution of Jews in Berlin, 1935-1945, notably include copies of an arrest warrant for Leo Boschwitz, 1935, for the destruction of a copy Der Stürme and his release from Lichtenburg concentration camp in the same year; a good conduct certificate issued by Camp le Vernet for Kurt Nohe, 1940; detailed instructions issued by the jüdische Kultusvereinigung zu Berlin to Regina Montilja prior to her deportation to 'the Protectorate', 1942; pro forma summons to the assembly station at Grosse Hamburger Strasse, Berlin, 1943, and at Schulstrasse 78, Berlin, 1944.

Papers compiled by the Komitee ehemaliger politischer Gefangener, 1945, including original reports and personal accounts concerning conditions in concentration camps with special reference to Neuengamme and Dachau and papers on topics including political resistance to Nazism and plans for creating a free, democratic Germany.

Microfilm of papers of Dr Albert Louis (Albie) Sachs, lawyer and political activist, concerning legal cases and political trials of approximately 100 individuals, in South Africa, 1956-1968; charges include murder, sabotage, rape, contravention of Emergency Regulations, membership of the Pan African Congress, incitement, distribution of banned literature, banning orders, arson, corruption, race classification and entering native locations.

Papers of Jack Halpern on South Africa and race relations, 1958-1970; comprising correspondence and papers on Southern African politics, 1958-1965, including drafts of articles by Halpern and press cuttings; correspondence and papers on the High Commission Territories (Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland), 1958-1970, including publications, drafts of articles by Halpern, press cuttings, notes and correspondence; correspondence and papers on Swaziland, 1961-1968, including drafts of articles by Halpern, material on Swaziland's Constitution, publications, political party material, press cuttings and correspondence; correspondence and papers on Lesotho [formerly Basutoland], 1952-1968, including publications, political party material, draft articles by Halpern, correspondence and press cuttings; correspondence and papers on Botswana [formerly Bechuanaland] 1961-1970, including publications, drafts of articles by Halpern, press statements and cuttings, correspondence and photographs; correspondence and papers on the Central African Federation, 1961-1964, including draft articles, publications and press cuttings; draft articles and press cuttings on Malawi, 1962-1963; articles and press cuttings on Zambia, 1958-1969; correspondence and papers on Rhodesia, 1958-1972, including publications, material on the Rhodesian General Election, Dec 1962; material on the Pearce Commission, 1971-1972, correspondence, draft articles and press cuttings, (including statement and cuttings on Halpern's expulsion from Rhodesia, Sep 1963); drafts and notes for Halpern's book South Africa's Hostages (Penguin, 1965); correspondence and papers on Amnesty International, including articles by Halpern and correspondence on his work as Secretary-General, and his resignation, 1964-1965; general correspondence 1960-1973 including letters on his expulsion from Rhodesia, 1963, applications for jobs, 1963-1972 and family correspondence; miscellaneous papers including draft articles and broadcasts, 1965-1968, printed papers, press cuttings, 1963-1968, periodicals, appointment diaries, 1962-1971; Sophie Halpern's correspondence and papers, 1963-1967.

Bulletins issued by Joe Kennedy commenting on politics in Rhodesia, 1966-1969; including notes of interview with the Acting British High Commissioner John Hennings, Jan 1967; comments on meeting between Ian Smith and Harold Wilson at Gibraltar, Oct 1968; comments on visit of George Thomson, British Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, to Rhodesia, Nov 1968; comments on the detention and trial of Rev Ndabaningi Sithole, 1968-1969.

Memorandum by Prof Bryan W Langlands of his experiences while at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 1974-1975 including account of the arrest and trial of Denis Cecil Hills for treason, also other incidents relating to President Idi Amin and the British community in Uganda, and on University politics at Makerere.

Memorandum by M D Matimba, M T Musarurwa, P P A Foya, E F C Sithole, K S Mhizha, J T Maululeke, and T A Chihota, (former political detainees), to Minister of Justice, Southern Rhodesia, 16 July 1961, concerning payment of allowances, the need for improvement of the 'shockingly insulting' conditions in which they were living, and the expulsion of the Native Commissioner, R S Powell.

Papers of Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, 1933-1967; comprising typescript drafts for autobiography, including chapters on the Native Representative Council of South Africa, his role in the African National Congress (ANC) and his detention and trial for High Treason in 1956; microfilm of Z K Matthews personal papers comprising papers on his academic research on anthropology and native law, 1933-1935; correspondence and papers on his political activities, including material on the Native Representative Council of South Africa, 1942-1946, the ANC, 1942-1955; papers on Treason Trials, 1956-1961; general political correspondence, 1936-1967, includes letters from Govan Mbeki, Helen Suzman, Canon L John Collins and others, political articles and statements by Matthews, 1930-1967; correspondence and papers on education, including correspondene on his resignation from Fort Hare University, 1959, lecture notes, articles and statements on education; personal correspondence, 1937-1968; correpondence and papers on his work for the World Council of Churches, 1960-1966; papers on political and educational affairs in Botswana, 1933-1966; miscellanea, including articles by Matthews and others.