{"id":3910,"date":"2019-03-01T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:29","slug":"ruth-first-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/03\/01\/ruth-first-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth First papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ruthfirstpapers.org.uk%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636870261121137536&amp;sdata=Bpc5PgaSL4UrorTu1DduzUr%2Ft96k%2Bb%2FRm9xlDMqJrHc%3D&amp;reserved=0\">This Digital archive\u00a0was \u00a0funded by the\u00a0School of Advanced Study to put<\/a> online the papers of South African anti-apartheid activist Ruth First who was assassinated in 1982. They include letters from her exile in London, \u00a0political activities in South Africa and Mozambique during the apartheid era and responses to her impact.<\/p>\n<p>Also relevant here are the <a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpolarch.sas.ac.uk%2Fpages%2Fcommonwealth_pamph.htm&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636870261121137536&amp;sdata=NG47GsNqgyW6idWwUQE27dVSwl4oREBax%2B%2BScGg82jM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">digitised political pamphlets from the collections of Senate House Library<\/a> which \u00a0includes:\u00a0Exposure! The farm labour scandal by Ruth First (Johannesburg: Real Print. and Pub. Co., 1959).<\/p>\n<p>Likewise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/\">SAHistory.org<\/a> is a great site with timelines, biographies and digitised primary source materials. It <a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sahistory.org.za%2Farchive%2Ffighting-talk&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C929b7c2254164775c6c608d69e20d116%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C636870261121147554&amp;sdata=XUAy91tVfqqYytniDMBY3PkNfjStb%2Fvk%2F45Z6otz9iw%3D&amp;reserved=0\">has\u00a0 copies of\u00a0 Fighting Talk.<\/a> which Ruth First edited in the 1950s and contains many examples examples of South African resistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Digital archive\u00a0was \u00a0funded by the\u00a0School of Advanced Study to put online the papers of South African anti-apartheid activist Ruth First who was assassinated in 1982. They include letters from her exile in London, \u00a0political activities in South Africa and Mozambique during the apartheid era and responses to her impact. Also relevant here are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[156,64,73,83],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-anti-apartheid","tag-journalism","tag-protest","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3912,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}