African Newspaper availability
Second trial access to African Newspapers, 1800 - 1922
Representing the largest fully searchable collection of historical newspapers from around the globe, the World Newspaper Archive was created in partnership between Readex, a division of NewsBank, and the Center for Research Libraries
African Newspapers, 1800-1922 includes such key publications as the Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser (Cape Town), Indian Opinion (Durban), Graham's Town Journal (Grahamstown), Imvo zabantsundu (King William’s Town), Umteteli wa Bantu (Johannesburg), Natal Witness (Pietermaritzburg) and many others.
Rhodes faculty and students only can access the Rhodes University Library tr
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1895 Map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope
When Eve Mazery of Howick asked to see MP 1815 in connection with her research into the missionary James Archbell, she was amazed to be confronted by a map 2.4 x 1.2 m in size! It took two Cory staff members, Louisa Verwey and Victor Gacula, to hold it up for her.
The 1895 "Map of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope and neighbouring territories" is signed by J. Templar Horne, Surveyor General. It contains details of Mission Stations, Military Posts, Post Offices, Schools and Trigonometr
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Ibali lamaMfengu
Ibali lamaMfengu and Kunganjani kusiyiwa eKapa? / Richard Tainton Kawa: with a new introduction by Vathiswa Nhanha and Jeff Peires. (Eastern Cape Reprints). Grahamstown: Rhodes University, Cory Library, 2011.
Available from Cory Library @ R130.00 plus postage and packing. Please email us here.
"Eli li Bali kuqala lezizwe ezintsundu, I Bali kwindawo yesibini laba Mbo, le mikw
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A Contribution to South African Materia Medica
A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the Natives / by Andrew Smith of St Cyrus, M.A.; with a new introduction by Tony Dold and Michelle Cocks. (Eastern Cape Reprints). Grahamstown: Rhodes University, Cory Library, 2011.
Available from Cory Library @ R180.00 plus postage and packing.
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Friends of Cory Library
Cory Library commemoration
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Sunday Times Heritage Project
Cory Library becomes a non-circulating library
Album of Grahamstown, 1898
New pages on the website
Icon Site Guide
Grahamstown buildings on Artefacts website
'The Unlikely Secret Agent' by Ronnie Kasrils
Trial access to African Newspapers, 1800 - 1922
Phoenix Roller Mill leaves Grahamstown
Cory Staff celebrate the 2010 World Cup
Archive of 50 years of African football on FIFA.com
World Cup opening hours
Paper Conservation Workshop
Report on skills in archives and library sector
Maps of Africa to 1900
Launch of Lovedale Alumni Office
Rootsweb: mailing lists for South African genealogical research
Labyrinth of East London Lore
Project Canterbury
Making Peace exhibition at Albany Museum
Heritage Month: historical tours of Grahamstown
Digitising at the Library of Parliament
The Archival Platform
New Books, August 2009
Guide to the catalogues
New Books, July 2009
SAHS: dynamic and going digital
Arrowsmith's map of the Cape of Good Hope, 1842
Archives Yearbook for South African History
History in the Making seminar, 4 June 2009
Talk on "A Literary guide to the Eastern Cape"
National Archives Week, 18-22 May, Cape Town
The Blue Shield
New books, May 2009
Cory Library brochure
April 2009 RUL Newsletter now out
Military History Interest Group
Cory Library is really cool
Donkey-Drawn Mobile Cart Library Services for the Eastern Cape?
Frontier Country forts and signal stations
Books about China
New from the Internet Archive
Mass de-acidification system for the National Library of South Africa
Book launch: Isaac Williams Wauchope
Es’kia Mphahlele (1919-2008)
Library Building Expansion Project
New Books
Black Sash Archival Collections in South Africa
Maps for Timbuktu Exhibition
