HIST 391 Children of Empire: A Transnational History of Boarding Schools

User icon Heather Dray
11 December 2023
25 items

Primary and secondary source material on mission and secular boarding schools.


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1971 English

Report of the Education Commission of The Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society examining the education system in South Africa under apartheid rule. Content include: The nature and function …



English



SU: Stellenbosch University · 1901 English

Report to the Committee of the Distress Fund for South African Women and Children, of a visit to the camps of women and children in the Cape and Orange River …


Moi University · 26 June 1978 English




USC: University of Southern California English

"The girls work started some years ago in Laundry work. After a little while the fathers began to realise that the hearts of the girls were being turned, and that …


Endangered Archives Programme · 1964 English

Original institution's reference: NRG5/13/18.


USC: University of Southern California · 1930 English

"L'internat de jeunes filles de Khovo" ("Boarding school for girls in Khovo") "1930" Photograph of African girls from the boarding school of Khovo. They wear dresses and headscarves. They sit …



Moi University · 14 November 1977 English


USC: University of Southern California · 1967 English

Portrait of the teachers of a boarding schools in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The teachers are gathered for a training period. Photography published in the Journal des Missions, november-december 1967, p.254.


University of the Witwatersrand English

Official Organ of the Cape African Teachers' Association, established in 1934 by D.D.T. Jabavu




University of the Witwatersrand English

Public. N31 - Black, Male, Thirties, Free State. N32 - Not filled. N33 - Not filled. N34 - Male, White, Fifties. N35 - 'White', 'Female', Early-30s (born 1976), Born and …


Endangered Archives Programme · 1946 English

Original institution's reference: NRG2/18/1.





USC: University of Southern California English

Girls who are pupils in the school of the Société des missions évangéliques de Paris (Paris evangelical missionary society) in Lambarene. The boarding school is in the background.


Africa Media Online

The Anglican boys boarding school, St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa was founded in 1855 and has a significant heritage as one of the premium boy's schools in …


Africa Media Online

January 22, 2015. The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls - South Africa is a girls-only boarding school that officially opened in January 2007 in Henley on Klip near Meyerton, …