Doing Archival Research: Pointers from the Cory Fieldtrip

Doing Archival Research: Pointers from the Cory Fieldtrip (July and August 2014)

Over the next few weeks, the Whites Writing Whiteness team will be on fieldwork in South Africa and will write regular blog posts about our findings and experiences. Please see below:

  • Blog 49, Au Revoir, and Now the Work Begins! (Mon 1 Sep)
  • Blog 48, Rhodes University, Cory Library, NELM (Mon 1 Sep)
  • Blog 47, Taking stock of the fieldtrip (Sun 31 Aug)
  • Blog 46, Pringle 8: Connections and locales (Sat 30 Aug)
  • Blog 45, Pringle 7: Place, space and time (Fri 29 Aug)
  • Blog 44, ‘The archive’ and cultural assemblage (Thurs 28 Aug)
  • Blog 43, Creature comforts (Wed 27 Aug)
  • Blog 42, Pringle 6: Some connections (Tue 26 Aug)
  • Blog 41, Pringle 5: Silence, sound and frontiers (Mon 25 Aug)
  • Blog 40, Working Against the Clock (Sun 24 Aug)
  • Blog 39, Pringle 4: Invoices (Sat 23 Aug)
  • Blog 38, Pringle 3: On Not/War (Fri 22 Aug)
  • Blog 37, Pringle 2: A woman’s place is in business (Thurs 21 Aug)
  • Blog 36, Keeping track of loose ends (Wed 20 Aug)
  • Blog 35, On Not Replicating the Archive (Tue 19 Aug)
  • Blog 34, Pringle: the basics (Mon 18 Aug)
  • Blog 33, A restful w/end (Sun 17 Aug)
  • Blog 32, Nothing happened? (Sat 16 Aug)
  • Blog 31, Method III, Reaching a Conclusion (Fri 15 Aug)
  • Blog 30, Method II, Sampling (Thurs 14 Aug)
  • Blog 29, Method I, Scoping and detailing (Wed 13 Aug)
  • Blog 28, Scoping as a fine art (Tue 12 Aug)
  • Blog 27, Wake up! Get out of the bubble! (Mon 11 Aug)
  • Blog 26, Cape Town and back (Sun 10 Aug)
  • Blog 25, Whatever happened to Sharpeville? (Sat 9 Aug)
  • Blog 24, Going into a different gear…. (Fri 8 Aug)
  • Blog 23, The hour of his death (Thurs 7 Aug)
  • Blog 22, More on notebooks v blogs (Weds 6 Aug)
  • Blog 21, Collections and items (Tue 5 Aug)
  • Blog 20, Should we like them? (Mon 4 Aug)
  • Blogs 17, 18, 19, Poor Mary, religious disputes, the Post, notebooks (Sun 3 Aug)
  • Blog 16, Who writes… (Thurs 31 July)
  • Blog 15, Is it about time? (Weds 30 July)
  • Blog 14, The coming troubles of Mary Livingstone (Tue 29 July)
  • Blog 13, Where is she? (Mon 28 July)
  • Blog 12, Back to the ranch… (Sun 27 July)
  • Blog 11, The book launch, and at the summit! (Sat 26 July)
  • Blog 9 continued and Blog 10… (Thurs 24 and Fri 25 July)
  • Blog 9, To the Cradock Festival (Thurs 24 July)
  • Blog 8, A diary is a diary is… (Weds 23 July)
  • Blog 7, Heads down and on with it (Tues 22 July)
  • Blog 6, News from the archive (Mon 21 July)
  • Blog 5, On the Frankfurt to Jo’burg plane (Sun 20 July)
  • Blog 4, En route (Sat 19 July)
  • Blog 3, So then…. (Fri 18 July)
  • Blog 2, Head down, just do things (Thurs 17 July)
  • Blog 1, The panic begins…. (Weds 16 July)

Last updated: 1 September 2014

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