1931 - 1932
“Nursing in the Sudan”. Brief history of the Nursing Service of the Sudan, its growth and development, details of training provided, continued role of British nurses in the Service. Ts. copy of article from International nursing review

1942 May 6
“A day's inspection”. A one-day diary of the inspection of two villages, their midwives and several patients by Miss E. Hills-Young [ts.]

1943 May
“Red Cross flag day”, broadcast over Omdurman Radio, 7 May 1943. An appeal to the British people in the Sudan and the Sudanese people to contribute generously to the third annual war appeal for Red Cross funds [ts., 2 copies]

1943 Jul
“The training of midwives in the Sudan”, broadcast over Omdurman Radio, Jul 1943. Description of the training programme begun in 1921 by Miss Wolff, at Omdurman. Expansion of programme, ante-natal and well-baby clinics [ts., 2 copies]

1944 Nov 4
“Care of the child in the Sudan”. Address to the Nurses' League, Great Ormond Street Hospital, outlining the programme of the Omdurman Training School for Midwifery, the need for more midwives, and the growth of child welfare work in the Sudan [ts.]

1944 Nov - Dec
“Female circumcision in the Sudan (Surgical seal of chastity)”. Discussion of the brutal practice of female circumcision, account of an operation in Omdurman, and proposals to put an end to the practice [ts.]

1945 Jan 13
“The training of midwives in the Sudan”. An outline and description of the training programme for midwives at Omdurman. Importance of teaching basic nutrition and hygiene, development of Child Welfare Centres. From Nursing times [ts. and newspaper cutting]

1933 Aug
Imperial Airways first float plane:

1937
First trek. White Nile and Kordofan. Scenes of departure from Omdurman Midwives Training School: Miss H.-Y. and Sudanese midwives. Scenes of sailboats, cars on rough tracks, villages, horses, camels, grass huts, winnowing grain, camels turning saqiyah, women dancing, young children dancing, tall crops in field, village crowds.
[12 minutes, black and white, safety film]

Digital copy

1938
Malakal, Kosti, Gebel Aulia, Abu Simbel, Philae, Suez, Port Said, Stromboli, Rhodes. Ships, steel bridge, temple of Abu Simbel, sailboats, locks, walled city, view of city from harbour.
[4 minutes, black and white, safety film]

Digital copy

1938 - 1939
Halfa District, Dongola District, Blue Nile. Float plane landing, village scenes, Nile banks, cattle raising water for irrigation, cars on rough tracks and sailboat ferry, market scenes, dam across Nile, picking cotton, flower garden.
[13 minutes, black and white, safety film]

Digital copy

1938 - 1940
Midwives Training School, Omdurman. Class meeting outside, bedmaking demonstration, trainees going on calls, women and children dancing, children gathering firewood, women in boat on the Nile.
[7 minutes, black and white, safety film]

Digital copy

1939
Second trek; Northern Kordofan, Darfur. Camel train; riders and baggage; village scene; mud brick buildings; plane landing, Imperial Airways, Geneina; men dancing, with masks and spears; British women on horseback; British babies and children.
[10 minutes, black and white, safety film]

Digital copy

1939 - 1940
Port Sudan, Suakin, Gebeit, Sinkat, Kassala, Gedaref, Gallabat, Roseires, Wisko, Kurmuk, Soderi. Harbour, ships, buildings along sea front, women with water jugs, camels, crowds, Jabal Kassala? views of round-topped hills, Sudanese soldiers marching, three men in felt hats, boy with heavy load on shoulders.
[9 minutes, black and white, safety film]

Digital copy

1939 - 1940
Khartoum Zoo Party, 1939, Omdurman, 1939; Khartoum North Party, 1940. Train, large ship, Khartoum scenes: traffic, women, gardens. British children playing; animals in Khartoum Zoo; ports on the Nile; military band marching; oxen pulling hay mowers; winnowing grain; British children at party.
[11 minutes, black and white, safety film]

Digital copy

1941
Kosti to Juba. Rail bridge, British officials and wives, tall natives dancing with spears, children gathered.
[3 minutes, black and white, safety film]

Digital copy

[n.d.]
Kordofan and Nuba Mountains. Beating drums, horse racing, monkeys feeding, women and children on an ox, mountain scenery, village streets, young women wearing only jewelry, schoolboys.
[3 minutes, colour, safety film]

Digital copy

The above films were copied on to videotape for ease of viewing, however these have now been superseded by digital copies. SAD.Video 2 (B & W) contains all the film from 633/1 - 633/9, in correct order, whether black and white or in colour on the original film. Cinefilms 633/2 - 633/9 each contain a small amount of colour material which has been brought together on SAD.Video 2 (colour). Colour in all ranges is somewhat faded but many details appear more sharply than in black and white.

Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into the library's printed collections and catalogued on the Open Public Access Catalogue


Crowfoot, G.: Flowering plants of northern and central Sudan
Hills-Young, E.: Lectures on nursing for native orderlies (Omdurman, 1940)
Liddiard, M.: Kitab murshid al-ammahat
Sudan [Condominium, 1898 - 1955], Ministry of Information: Humanity keeps an appointment
Sudan [Condominium, 1898 - 1955], Ministry of Information: The first to be freed. British Military Administration in Eritrea and Somalia (H.M.S.O. 1944)