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100 years old and still making history: The centenary of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2004 Observing institutional birthdays is not something academic historians readily undertake nowadays – their training makes them habitually wary of the constructed nature of such events and of the self-preening which usually accompanies them. ... Read more
A Caledonian college in Cape Town and beyond: An investigation into the foundation(s) of the South African university system

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2003 Adopting a historical approach, this article traces the origins of key features of the South African university system, namely the general nature of its undergraduate degrees, its heavy reliance on lectures to convey information and its ... Read more
Becoming liberal : a history of the National Union of South African students : 1945-1955

Author: Larkin, Clare Date: 2001 The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was established in 1924 as a forum for white South African students. The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and the establishment of the ultra-nationalist Afrikaanse Studentebond ... Read more
Beyond the city limits : people and property at Wynberg 1795-1927

Author: Robinson, Enid Helen Date: 1996 This study of peri-urban development in the Western Cape examines the acquisition and exploitation of property as an important feature in attaining economic power and high social status by upwardly-mobile people in a colonial setting. The ... Read more
Consumptive Cape Town : the Chapel Street TB clinic, 1941-1964

Author: Kilpatrick, Fiona Date: 2002 This thesis focuses on the history of the Chapel Street TB Clinic and Administration Centre in Cape Town from 1941 to 1964. The author set out to evaluate the Cape Town City Council's attempts to control the TB epidemic, through the lens of ... Read more
Epidemics in South African history

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2013 by Professor Howard Phillips, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town, this lecture series explores five major epidemics that have ravaged South Africa, namely smallpox, the bubonic plague, Spanish Flu, Polio and HIV. This ... Read more c b d
A history of the Colonial Bacteriological Institute 1891-1905

Author: Madida, Ngqabutho Date: 2003 Africa was not a white man's grave just because it killed people, it was a white man's grave because it threatened to destroy the crops and animals that were the basis of the settlers' survival. Thus in 1891 the first research institute of ... Read more
Labour, capital and the state in the St. Helena Bay fisheries c.1856 - c.1956

Author: Van Sittert, Lance Date: 1992 This thesis deals with the history of the St Helena Bay inshore fisheries, 1856-1956. Fishing has long been neglected by social and economic historians and the myths propagated by company and popular writers still hold sway. The thesis ... Read more
"Little Madeira": the Portuguese in Woodstock c.1940-c.1980

Author: Machado, Pedro Date: 1993 This dissertation seeks to trace the forty-year evolution or the Portuguese or Madeiran immigrant community of Woodstock between the 1940s and 1980s. As the majority of Portuguese in Woodstock came from Madeira the terms, Portuguese and ... Read more
The making of rural health care in colonial Zimbabwe : a history of the Ndanga Medical Unit, Fort Victoria, 1930-1960s

Author: Ncube, Glen Date: 2012 This thesis adopts a social history of medicine approach to explore the contradictions surrounding a specific attempt to develop a rural healthcare system in south-eastern colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) from the 1930s to the 1960s. ... Read more
Reflections on writing and teaching history in Africa in the twenty-first century

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2004 Given the predominantly South Africanist composition of those participating in the colloquium, it was not unexpected that the discussion throughout was heavily canted towards the historiography of South Africa, and especially to producing it ... Read more
Reports on Colloquium Sessions

Author: Adhikari, Mohammed ; Phillips, Howard ; van der Watt, Liese ; Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm ; van Sittert, Lance ; Deacon, Harriet ; Erlank, Natasha ; Clowes, Lindsay ; Worden, Nigel ; Bickford-Smith, Vivian Date: 2004 Since the late 1980s the environmental trope in South African history has been gradually elevated to a field of enquiry in its own right. The impetus to this transformation has been varied, the blossoming of environmental history in the North ... Read more
The South African Library as a state-aided national library in the era of apartheid : an administrative history

Author: Coates, Peter Ralph Date: 2015 The Public Library in Cape Town was founded in the earliest days of British civil rule in Southern Africa, as a Government-funded free library of reference with the purpose of educating and enculturating the 'youth' of the Cape Colony along ... Read more
The role of the university in writing and teaching history in Africa in the twenty-first century

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2004 On three scores this session differed from most other sessions of the colloquium. First, in Professor Robert Addo-Fening from the University of Ghana it had a nonSouth Africanist as lead-in speaker; second, half of its panel of discussants ... Read more
The Van Riebeeck Society's journey: The origins and destination of the Van Riebeeck Society, 1918-2004

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2005 Recognizing that the 86-year old Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of South African Historical Documents is sui generis in South Africa, as a long-existing cultural organization dedicated solely to the publication of primary historical ... Read more
Treating white poverty in interwar South Africa: 'Civilised labour' and the construction of Groote Schuur Hospital 1926-1938

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2005 So central to the South African state's interwar labour policies was the notion of 'civilised labour' that contemporary scholars as distinguished as Hancock, De Kiewiet and Hutt used that label as chapter titles to characterise those policies ... Read more
Two far south : the responses of South African and Southern Jews to apartheid and segregation in the 1950s and 1960s

Author: Mendelsohn, Adam D Date: 2003 This dissertation uses the comparative historical method to compare and contrast the responses of Southern and South African Jews to apartheid and segregation in the 1950s and 1960s. It focuses on the interrelationship of the two communities ... Read more
Writing and teaching national history in Africa in an era of global history

Author: Phillips, Howard Date: 2004 This session of the colloquium began where the preceding one had left off, with the lead-in speaker, Professor Toyin Falola of the University of Texas, arguing that if ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ were meaningful concepts for historical understanding, ... Read more