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Special Collections: Black History Resources

Papers relating to the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group (EUL MS 216)

The Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group was esabtlished in c 1966 and was one of the longest established and most active groups in the UK anti-apartheid movement. The collection includes seven boxes of material relating to the administration of the Group, including correspondence, promotional literature, presscutting scrapbooks, and artefacts (badges, flags, banners, collecting boxes etc.),

Find out more about this collection on the online catalogue

Papers of Mervyn Bennun relating to Anti-Apartheid (EUL MS 112) 

Mervyn Bennun was originally trained at Cape Town University and subsequently practised as a lawyer in South Africa until his departure for Britain in the 1960s. He became lecturer in law at the University of Exeter from 1969-1970 until his retirement in the 1990s when he returned to South Africa. During his time at Exeter University, he was an African National Congress (ANC) activist in the period when the ANC was in exile in Britain, and was involved with the activities of the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group as Chairman and Secretary. The collection consists of papers relating to Anti-Apartheid accumulated by Bennun during his period at the University of Exeter.

Find out more about this collection on the online catalogue

Mervyn Bennun collection of journals and pamphlets relating to Anti-Apartheid, 1950s-1990s
Journals and pamphlets relating to Anti-Apartheid are catalogued and can be found on the library catalogue

Badges in the Papers relating to the Exeter and District Anti-Apartheid Group (EUL MS 216)

Mervyn Bennun collection of journals and pamphlets relating to Anti-Apartheid, 1950s-1990s (classmark: Bennun)

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