Crime Scientist by John Thompson
Archival Significance Published by Books of Zimbabwe, the same publisher behind several Rhodesiana reprints held elsewhere in this Archive, this is a biography or memoir addressing forensic or investigative science…
Colonialism
Jumbo Guide to Rhodesia
Archival Significance A promotional tourist guide commissioned by Standard Bank and distributed free to customers, reflecting how Rhodesian commercial institutions used tourism literature as a form of corporate goodwill and…
The Bantu Past And Present An Ethnographical & Historical Study of the Native Races of South Africa by S. M. Molema
”Admire-Exult-Despise-Laugh-Weep,-For Here There Is Such Molter For All Feeling.” Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto IV. cix. Publisher W. Green & Son, Limited, Edinburgh Publishing date 1920 Category Ethnography Language English
Mugabe Illustrated by David Smith & Colin Simpson with Ian Davies
Archival Significance An illustrated biography of Robert Mugabe published in 1981, the year after Zimbabwean independence, when Mugabe had just become the country’s first Prime Minister, making it a contemporaneous…
Lost Chance, Southern Rhodesia 1945-58 by Hardwicke Holderness
Archival Significance
Holderness was among the white liberal Rhodesians who, on return from WWII service, attempted to build genuine multiracial common ground with African political leadership before the Rhodesian Front’s rise. Terence Ranger’s cover endorsement frames the book as evidence that such a constituency existed and mattered.
African Portraits – A Biography of Paul Kruger, Cecil Rhodes and Lobengula Last King of the Matabele
Author Stuart Cloete Publisher Collins 14 St. Jame’s Place London Publisher 1946 Copyright Printed in Great Britain Collins Clear-Type Press: London and Glasgow 1946 Category Biography Language English
They Came to Northern Rhodesia
Archival Significance A compiled settler record documenting persons who had entered the territory, now Zambia, by 31 December 1902, this is a genealogical and administrative reference rather than a narrative…
Rhodesian Epic by T.W. Baxter and R.W.S. Turner
Archival Significance
A collaboration between T. W. Baxter, the National Archivist of Rhodesia, and R. W. S. Turner, this illustrated history was produced with the direct backing of the National Archives of Rhodesia itself, making it a state archival institution’s own narrative history of the country rather than an independent academic account.
Portuguese in South-East Africa 1600-1700 by Eric Axelson
Publisher Witwatersrand University Press Johannesburg Publishing date 1960 Printed in the Union of South Africa by Cape Times Limited Category History Language English Preface The pages that follow are an…
Yesterday Today and Tomorrow – A 100 year history of Zimbabwe 1890 – 1990
Archival Significance Published for Zimbabwe’s tenth anniversary of independence, spanning exactly the century from the British South Africa Company’s 1890 occupation to 1990, this is a deliberately framed centenary retrospective…