The Unity High School Archive at Durham University - 13th August 2011

Durham University in England have just taken receipt of a copy of The Unity High School Archive to add to their extensive Sudan Archive. This amounts to almost 12,000 individual files (documents, photographs, audio and video recordings) and will possibly form one of the most extensive sub-collections within the Sudan Archive.


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