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Trial access to Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980 and Virginia Company Archives

By Sarah Gilmore, on 4 March 2015

UCL has trial access to Apartheid South Africa, 1948-1980 (modules I, II & III) and Virginia Company Archives until 1st April 2015. For off-site access, please use Web WTS or Desktop@UCLAnywhere.

Apartheid South Africa includes British government files from the Foreign, Colonial, Dominion and Foreign and Commonwealth Offices spanning the period 1948 to 1980. These previously restricted letters, diplomatic dispatches, reports, trial papers, activists’ biographies and first-hand accounts of events give unprecedented access to the history of South Africa’s apartheid regime. The files explore the relationship of the international community with South Africa and chart increasing civil unrest against a backdrop of waning colonialism in Africa and mounting world condemnation.

Virginia Company Archives  is an essential source for the study of the Atlantic World and Early Colonial Period. It documents the founding and economic development of Virginia as seen through the papers of the Virginia Company of London, 1606-1624. It then shows the continuing interest of the Ferrar family in the settlement of North America from Jamestown to the Bermudas. It is made up of four constituent parts:

  • Previously unpublished transcripts by Dr David Ransome of documents from the Virginia Company Archives.
  • A fully searchable text of The Records of the Virginia Company of London.
  • The complete Ferrar Papers from Magdelene College, Cambridge, together with a fully searchable listing linked directly to the manuscripts.
  • An extensive contextual introduction to the Ferrar papers and a wide range of maps, illustrations and other works

Please note that PDF download options are not available during the trials.

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