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Special Collections in Recovery – Four Years On

April 18, 2025, marks the 4th anniversary of the Jagger Library fire, and the past year has witnessed the relocation of Special Collections to a new premises and ongoing renewal in the form of steady rebuilding of services...

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April 2025

Special Collections in Recovery – Four Years On - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 15:49

February 2025

A Labour of Love: Scrapbooks, Clippings, and the Preservation of Memory - Fri, 02/14/2025 - 09:34

April 2024

Reflections on the third anniversary of the Jagger Fire - Thu, 04/18/2024 - 15:52

September 2023

Rescued from the Flames: Special Collections' hidden gem - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 09:49

May 2023

Crate by Crate: Making Progress Visible in AV Recovery - Mon, 05/29/2023 - 15:40
Reflections on the second anniversary of the Jagger Fire - Tue, 05/09/2023 - 09:20

April 2023

Whose copyright is that? Perpetual copyright and indigenous languages in archives - Fri, 04/21/2023 - 14:22

March 2023

Jagger restoration project: Belgian academics visit UCT Libraries - Thu, 03/30/2023 - 10:50
Tape: A paper conservators’ worst nightmare - Tue, 03/28/2023 - 14:54
Human Rights in the AV Archive - Mon, 03/20/2023 - 15:34
Published Collections: Our Ongoing Recovery - Nearly Two Years On - Mon, 03/20/2023 - 08:46

January 2023

Fragments of the African Film Collection Survived the Fire - Mon, 01/16/2023 - 00:00

September 2022

Exploring architectural archives in recovery - Fri, 09/16/2022 - 07:57

August 2020

Shining a light on archival sources at UCT Special Collections - Fri, 08/14/2020 - 06:15

May 2020

Africa Day 2020: Showcasing our ongoing work on African collections - Mon, 05/25/2020 - 12:09

March 2020

New edition: Guide to the Manuscripts in the UCT Libraries - Fri, 03/20/2020 - 11:45

October 2019

Traces of the Ottoman Empire in UCT Libraries Special Collections - Fri, 10/25/2019 - 08:15

July 2019

Celebrating Mandela in the Archives - Wed, 07/17/2019 - 14:45
Hamba kahle, Johnny Clegg - Wed, 07/17/2019 - 10:14

May 2019

Celebrating Africa Day - Fri, 05/24/2019 - 16:45

March 2019

Human Rights Display in Special Collections - Fri, 03/08/2019 - 10:09

November 2018

“Anthropology in the name of the child”: The archive of Pamela Reynolds’ research - Fri, 11/23/2018 - 10:30

August 2018

The 1968 "Mafeje Affair" sit-in, 50 years on - Wed, 08/15/2018 - 14:30

April 2017

AtoM@UCT - Mon, 04/03/2017 - 10:55

March 2016

Rare ‡Khomani San Archive Tells a Story of Fragility - Mon, 03/14/2016 - 09:15

September 2015

Reflections on history - Mon, 09/28/2015 - 00:00

June 2015

1976 uprising in images, Cape Town - Mon, 06/15/2015 - 10:01

May 2015

The papers of Richard Dudley and anti-apartheid liberation movements - Thu, 05/14/2015 - 09:45

April 2015

Tim Noakes in the Archives - Tue, 04/21/2015 - 10:45

March 2015

New book on the life and architecture of John Parker - Tue, 03/10/2015 - 11:00

February 2015

Giving breath to a dying history - Thu, 02/26/2015 - 12:58
Archival Interviews with Role Players in South Africa’s Constitutional Negotiations - Mon, 02/02/2015 - 11:11