Only known full Zietsman/Goniwe Inquest archive digitised at Cory Library

In 2020, the Foundation for Human Rights and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA approached the Rhodes University Library to make accessible the Zietsman/Goniwe Inquest documentation, archived at the Cory Library for Humanities Research.

Cory Library notice to researchers

Cory Library

Copyright

-

Protean Paradox: George Edward Cory (1862-1935) negotiating life and South African history

Protean Paradox: George Edward Cory (1862-1935) negotiating life and South African history / by Sandra Rowoldt Shell. Available from Cory Library R300.00 includes postage and packing or R200.00 price of book purchase in person in Cory Library.

Cory Library Readers Ticket

We encourage all non-Rhodes University researchers to fill in our Reader's Ticket Application form, which can be found under CORY LIBRARY POLICIES on our webpage. Please send your application to the Head of Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za for approval. Research materials will be issued Monday to Friday until 4:00pm and must be returned to the issue desk by the latest 4:30pm.

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

Diary of Captain James Maurice Primrose

Diary of Captain James Maurice Primrose: 43rd Regiment of foot / edited and annotated by Dr Caroline Jackson. Available from Cory Library @ R329.00 plus postage and packing.

We Can: Black Politics in Cradock, South Africa, 1948-1985

We Can! Black Politics in Cradock, South Africa, 1948-1985 / Michael S. Tetelman. Rhodes University: Institute for Social and Economic Research & Cory Library. Eastern Cape Themes: no. 1. Available from Cory Library @ R228.00 plus postage and packing (soft cover); R395.00 plus postage and packing (hard cover).

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 @ R169.00 plus postage and packing. Please email us here. "Eli li Bali kuqala lezizwe ezintsundu, I Bali kwindawo yesibini laba Mbo, le mikw

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 @ R169.00 plus postage and packing.

Chris McGregor and the brotherhood of breath

Chris McGregor and the brotherhood of breath: my life with a South African Jazz Pioneer / by Maxine McGregor. Available from Cory Library @295.00 plus postage and packing.

Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980

Apartheid South Africa 1948-1980 Apartheid South Africa makes available British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980.

Frederick I'Ons artist 1802-1887

Frederick I'Ons artist 1802-1887/by Edna Bradlow and Tony Westby-Nunn. Available from Cory Library @ R295.00 plus postage and packaging.

The bones of the ancestors are shaking: xhosa oral poetry in context

The bones of the ancestors are shaking: xhosa oral poetry in context / by Russell H. Kaschula. Available from Cory Library @ R100-00 plus postage and packing.

History in the Making seminar, 4 June 2009

Es’kia Mphahlele (1919-2008)

Labyrinth of East London Lore

Grahamstown buildings on Artefacts website

New pages on the website

New from the Internet Archive

Arrowsmith's map of the Cape of Good Hope, 1842

Frontier Country forts and signal stations

Making Peace exhibition at Albany Museum

Project Canterbury

Rootsweb: mailing lists for South African genealogical research

Talk on "A Literary guide to the Eastern Cape"

Trial access to African Newspapers, 1800 - 1922

Donkey-Drawn Mobile Cart Library Services for the Eastern Cape?

Glimpse into the Mythology of the Maluti Bushmen

Cory Library commemoration

The Blue Shield

Book launch: Isaac Williams Wauchope

The Archival Platform

Archives Yearbook for South African History

Icon Site Guide

Report on skills in archives and library sector

Phoenix Roller Mill leaves Grahamstown

National Archives Week, 18-22 May, Cape Town

Maps of Africa to 1900

Sunday Times Heritage Project

Album of Grahamstown, 1898

Cory Library becomes a non-circulating library

Cory Library is really cool

Military History Interest Group

SAHS: dynamic and going digital

April 2009 RUL Newsletter now out