Many people and organisations have helped in the creation of this website. Thanks to: Hanef Bhamjee; Stefan Dickers, Bishopsgate Institute; David Easterbrook, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University; Peter Hain; Tony Hollingsworth; Richard Knight, African Activist Archive; Marx Memorial Library; Sue Longbottom; Carole McCallum, Glasgow Caledonian University Archive; Morning Star; Museum of London; Patsy Pillay; People’s History Museum; Report Digital; Dorothy Robinson; Kier Schuringa, International Institute of Social History; James Scott; Dr Alison Twells, Penny Capper, Ian Carew, Jonathan Dobson and Sam Parkin, Sheffield Hallam University; Andrew Wiard. Special thanks to Lucy McCann, Bodleian Library.

We are grateful to Connie Field, Clarity Film Productions, for permission to use clips from interviews recorded for the film series ‘Have You Heard from Johannesburg?’ and to Håkan Thörn for interviews conducted for his book ‘Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society’. Thanks also to Dr Matt Graham (History programme, University of Dundee) and Dr Christopher Fevre (International Studies Group, University of the Free State) for interviews conducted as part of their research projects on the British Anti-Apartheid Movement and South Africa’s transition to majority rule, and on local Anti-Apartheid Groups.

Thanks to our funders: the Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust and the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Thanks also to all our volunteers who conducted and transcribed interviews, and processed and uploaded material onto the website, including Matt Battey, Reena Dayal, Hadeel Eltayeb, Lauren Carsley, Angela Drinnan, Ellie McDonald, Hanah Sandhu, Eoin O'Cearnaigh, Margaret Ling, Chitra Karve, Suresh Kamath, Helen Gibb, Charlie Morgan, Shijia Yu, Vida Scannell, Lamees Al Mubarak, Frances Freeman, Sarah Dar, Kayley Porter and Jacqui Wedlake Hatton.

AAM Archives Committee: Suresh Kamath (Chair), Christabel Gurney (Secretary), Richard Caborn, Chris Fevre, Brian Filling, Matt Graham, Nick Grant, David Kenvyn, Margaret Ling, Lucy McCann, Glen Robinson, Simon Sapper, Rob Skinner

Project Manager and website design: Jeff Howarth

Captions and text: Christabel Gurney

 

This website is dedicated to Lord Bob Hughes, founding Chair of the AAM Archives Committee and former Chair of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, and Mike Terry, former Executive Secretary of the AAM, who had the vision to ensure that the archive of the AAM was preserved so that its story could inspire future generations to continue the fight against racism and injustice and build a more equal and sustainable world.

An exciting new project plans to convert the former London office of the African National Congress in Penton Street, Islington into a Centre of Memory and Learning about the anti-apartheid solidarity movement. The project has been launched by The Liliesleaf Trust UK, working with the AAM Archives Committee and other groups. It has won support from the GLA’s Good Growth Fund and is working to raise matched funding to convert the building into an exhibition and educational centre. Whilst building plans have been on hold because of the Coronavirus crisis, education and community engagement is ongoing. For example, as part of Islington Borough’s Black History Month 2020 celebration and supporting learning from and about diverse and inclusive histories, the Trust created two family craft and design activities that invite design ideas for a new community learning garden for the borough. These can be found on our educational resources page

If you want to reproduce any of the material on the website please contact the AAM Archives Committee on . We will usually agree to the reproduction of the documents for which the AAM Archives Committee holds the copyright free of charge by non-profit making organisations. Where copyright is held by photographers or other agencies we will put you in touch with the copyright holder.

Every effort has been made to trace or contact all copyright holders. Where we have been unable to do this we have included all the information we have about the provenance of an item in the metadata. For some of the photographs there is no copyright information. We will make good any omissions or rectify any mistakes brought to our attention.