Hill, R. L.

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 33 SAD[560]
  • Dates of Creation
      ca. 1830-1996
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      17 boxes

Scope and Content

Official correspondence relating to Sudan Railways and Gordon College; personal correspondence; personal and official diaries; working papers, including source material and correspondence; unpublished drafts; lectures and speeches; conferencepapers; 243 photographs and 41 glass slides, mostly potential illustrations for published books; maps; museum objects; press cuttings; miscellanea and printed material

Administrative / Biographical History

Sudan Railways, 1929-1944 ; Education Department, 1944-1949 ; lecturer in Near Eastern History, University ofDurham, 1949-1966 ; co-founder of the Sudan Archive, Durham, 1957

Access Information

Open for consultation.

Acquisition Information

Presented by R. L. Hill, 1958-1995

Note

Part of : Sudan Archive

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