History Research

Universally accessible archive that provides access to tens of thousands of digitized photographs, videos, archival documents, maps, interviews and oral histories in numerous African languages.

Rare Books and Special Collections Digital Library at the American University in Cairo includes things like postcards, maps, images, oral histories, and more.

Forward to Freedom tells the story of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and its campaigns to support the people of South Africa in their fight against apartheid. The collection includes posters, images, oral histories, newspapers, and more.

Series of volumes containing an annotated selection of official documents from the UK National Archives, charting British withdrawal from its colonial territories, 1945-1965. Site is archived but still accessible.

British Library effort to digitize endangered material including photos, manuscripts, government records, etc.

Contains documents, oral testimonies, and images. Registration is required.

More than 30,000 images, archeologists notes, diary pages, published information, and more about the Giza site.

Primary sources pertaining to the conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia in the late 1970s.

Contains substantial material on Rwanda and Burundi.

Collection of 50,000+ press clippings from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania dating back to the 1970s.

Collection of posters used by the Dutch, British and Swedish Anti-Apartheid Movements in various campaigns.

Mengo Hospital Records (Uganda) - primarily handwritten notes, 1897-1944.

Collection of 84 newspapers from the late 19th century to present from the Middle East and North Africa.

Digital Collections include smaller newspaper publications and poster collections.

Collection of maps from Africa from various countries in primarily the 20th century. Archived as of 2021 but still accessible.

The Sudanese Archive preserves, analyses, and memorializes documentation of human rights violations, conflict, and acts of resistance in Sudan.

Collection of interviews from the 1994 United Nations criminal tribunal.