DURHAM UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: SUDAN ARCHIVE

: Akasha, Northern Province, Sudan, 1884. (photo courtesy of Durham University Library: Sudan Archive)
Description: The University Library’s Sudan Archive includes 136 cinefilms, most of which are the work of amateurs. They record the lives of District Commissioners, doctors and other officials in various regions of the Sudan, and provide a visual record of Sudanese tribal life in the North and South, and buildings of Khartoum, Omdurman and other major centres in the provinces from the late 1920s to the 1960s. Recent accessions have included publicity films produced by the Sudan Government in the 1950s, just before and after independence. The collection provides valuable material for the study of the social and cultural history, anthropology and ethnography of the area.
Website: http://www.dur.ac.uk/library/asc/index.html
Keywords: Ethnography; Anthropology; Khartoum; Omdurman; Sudan
Access: Open to all bona-fide researchers, Mon to Fri, 09.00-17.00. Searchers are required to give prior notice of visits.
Access for outsiders: Yes.
Facilities: Video copies may be viewed in the library. No viewing of orginal films.
Charges: None for viewing on the premises. Charge for viewing off-premises via loan of video copies to other libraries or suitable institutions.
Copyright: Copyright is held by individual film-makers.

Books: University library holds strong printed collections on the Sudan.
Manuscripts: Films are often part of larger collections which may include related manuscripts.
Masters: 136 films/ 33,100 feet.
Still Images: Over 46,000 photographs, many closely related to the subject matter of the films.
Video/Film: 130 films remastered and copied onto 22 videos (c. 18.5 hours).

Computerised database: Descriptions of pre-1945 films included in the University of Oxford’s Haddon database.
Online catalogue: All handlists will eventually be included in the Library’s Information System on the Internet.
Printed catalogue: Word processed handlists available locally and also at the National Register of Archives.
Card catalogue: No.
Digitised catalogue: No

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