Middle East and Islamic Studies Collections: an Exhibition of Treasures
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Governor-General of the Sudan Sir John Maffey and staff at the Palace in Khartoum
The Sudan Archive
The Sudan Archive was founded in 1957, the year after Sudanese independence,
to collect and preserve the papers of British men and women who had lived
and worked in the Sudan during the period of the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium
(1898-1955). It comprises over 300 individual collections of official,
semi-official and private papers of administrators from the Sudan Political
Service, missionaries, soldiers, business men, doctors, agriculturalists,
teachers and others, and provides a first rate research resource for all
disciplines of Sudanese studies.
Photographic resources in the Sudan Archive
The Archive’s extensive photographic collections illustrate
in depth the historical and cultural life of the country and provide a
rich research resource for historians, ethnographers, archaeologists and
others interested in the region. They record the lives of Sudanese tribes
and their colonial rulers, historical events, antiquities, the changing
landscape and the development of urban centres. This image, taken in the
early 1930s, shows the Governor-General, Sir John Maffey and staff at
the Palace in Khartoum. The flags of the two co-domini are held behind.
SAD 842/10/5
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