Reference code: GB-0033- SAD
Title: H. Oberst
Dates of creation: 1952-1984
Extent: 1 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: H. Oberst
Language:
English
( b. 1935 )
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| 1956 -1967 | Sudan Embassy, London. Secretary to H.E. Sayyid Muhammad Hamad al-Niel, H.E. Sayyid Amin Ahmad Husayn and H.E. Sayyid Jamal Muhammad Ahmad. |
| 1964 | Member of the Royal Victorian Order in recognition of her part in arranging the state visit of President Abboud |
| 1967 Mar | Sudan Embassy in Washington D.C. as secretary to the Ambassador H.E. Sayyid Amin Ahmad Husayn |
| 1967 Jun | Transferred to the Sudan Permanent Mission in New York |
| 1967 Dec | Returned to the UK and left the employ of the Sudan Government |
| 2001 - present | Active supporter of “Kids for Kids”, a charity working in North Darfur to combat the effects of climate change by supplying essentials for
survival to the remote villages. |
1. Official Papers
2. Articles and talks
3. Press releases and press cuttings
4. Papers relating to the Anglo-Sudanese Association
5. Miscellanea
6. Photographic material
7. Printed material
Presented by Ms H. Oberst, 2008
Catalogue
1. Official Papers
SAD.105/95/1-17
1967 Jun 21
Statement by HE Sayyid Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub, Prime Minister of the Sudan, delivered at the 5th special emergency session of the General Assembly of the United Nations concerning the Six Days' War
SAD.105/95/18-24
1967 Oct 10
Statement by HE Sayyid Fakhreddine Muhammad, Permanent Representative of the Sudan to the United Nations, delivered at the 22nd session of the General Assembly concerning the UN's failure to condemn Israel's occupation of Arab lands
2. Articles and talks
SAD.958/6/1-3
[ca. 1959]
Progress report on education in the Sudan by A.A. Taha, Director, Ministry of Education
SAD.958/6/4-6
[ca. 1959]
Article on wild life in the Southern Sudan, author unknown
SAD.958/6/7-20
1959 Jul 6
Text of a talk by Sayyid Muhammad `Uthman Shendi to the Rotary Club, Exmouth on
“The Sudan - a general survey of its economic, social and political progress”
3. Press releases and press cuttings
SAD.958/6/21
1962 Nov 13
Press release concerning the handing over of Sudan Airways' first Comet airliner
SAD.958/6/22-24
1966 Jan 4 - Feb 4
Press release issued by the Embassy of the State of Kuwait (Sudanese interests) concerning articles on the Southern Sudan by Anthony Carthew, published in the
Daily Mail, with copy letter from J.H. Brittain of the Daily Mail to the Sudanese Consulate regarding the purpose of Carthew's visit to the Sudan
SAD.958/6/25-28
1966 Feb 21
Statement by the P.M. of the Sudan, Sayyid Muhammad Ahmad Mahjub, replying to questions put forward by the Khartoum News Service on the recent resolutions of the World Council of Churches and the Presbyterian Church of East Africa on the Southern
Sudan situation
SAD.958/6/29-32
1967 Sep 4
Press release issued by the Sudanese Permanent Mission to the U.N. on resolutions of the conference of Arab kings and heads of states held in Khartoum 29 Aug-1 Sep 1967
SAD.958/7/1-52
1957 May 27 -1984 Jan 23
Cuttings from a variety of newspapers concerning elections in the Sudan (1958) from the
Daily Telegraph; unrest in the South (1964) from the Scotsman; supplement on the Republic of the Sudan from The Times (1964); “The Sudan: Arab state or African nation?” from The Listener (1966); Financial Times survey on the Sudan (1968); attempted coup (1971) from
The Times, The Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard; “Bridging the gulf between the Dinka and Khartum” (1971), from
The Times
4. The Anglo-Sudanese Society
SAD.958/8/1-149
1973
Papers relating to the Anglo-Sudanese Association, comprising list of committee members, 1961-1973 (SAD 958/8/1); minutes of committee meetings (SAD 958/8/2-8); and completed questionnaires on future activities for the association (SAD
958/8/9-149)
5. Miscellanea
SAD.958/6/33
1964 Feb 1
Brochure for Sudanline, Sudan Shipping Line Ltd, Red Sea / North Europe passenger service
SAD.958/6/34
[ca. 1960s]
Card bearing the flag and emblem of the Republic of the Sudan
6. Photographic material
SAD.901/13-901/15
[ca. 1950 -1965]
Large black and white photographs, taken by professional photographers, mostly official government photographs, undated but probably 1950s or 1960s:
SAD.901/13/1
The Grand Hotel, Khartoum (National Guidance Office [NGO])
SAD.901/13/2
Saqiyah on the banks of the Nile at Khartoum, at sunset (Public Relations Branch [PRO])
SAD.901/13/3
1952
Sunset on the Nile at Khartoum (PRO)
SAD.901/13/4
1954 Jul 29
Sudan Defence Force passing out parade of officer cadets. Sayyid Khalafallah Khalid, Minister of Defence inspecting the guard of honour, escorted by Taj al-Din Hamad, the top cadet of the year. (PRO)
SAD.901/13/5
Aerial view of Khartoum with Sirdar Avenue centre (NGO)
SAD.901/13/6
Sudan Airways plane airborne (Photographer: Samson Clark)
SAD.901/13/7
Sudan Police guard of honour lined up on an airfield in front of an aircraft (NGO)
SAD.901/13/8
Sudan Police Force pipers
SAD.901/13/9
1956
Sudan policeman (NGO)
SAD.901/13/10
1953 Mar
Rashaydah tribesmen, carrying whips (PRO)
SAD.901/13/11
Rashaydah tribesmen in the Kassala area (PRO)
SAD.901/13/12
Rashaydah tribesmen in Kassala rural district (PRO)
SAD.901/13/13
Young Bani Amer man, with amulet around his neck (PRO)
SAD.901/13/14
1953 Mar
Bani Amer men dancing (PRO)
SAD.901/13/15
Young Hadanduwah man (PRO)
SAD.901/13/16
Young Hadanduwah man brandishing a sword (NGO)
SAD.901/14/1
Hadanduwah man riding one of the Assistant District Commissioner's riding camels at Sinkat (NGO)
SAD.901/14/2
Hadanduwah cattle boy watering his herd, Eastern Sudan (Ministry of Information)
SAD.901/14/3
Police camel patrol from Kassala District patrolling the Sudan - Eritrean border near Jabal Kassala (PRO)
SAD.901/14/4-5
Jabal Kassala (Min of Information)
SAD.901/14/6
1955 Mar 6
Men brandishing swords and shields at a tribal gathering in honour of a visit from the Governor of Blue Nile Province (NGO)
SAD.901/14/7
View of the Blue Nile from Sennar dam (PRO)
SAD.901/14/8
A Gezira tenant, wearing a turban and jallabiyah
SAD.901/14/9
Suq at Ed Dueim (PRO)
SAD.901/14/10-12
Sword play around the drums (PRO)
SAD.901/14/13
1953
Sword play around the drums at a Tementai gathering (PRO)
SAD.901/14/14
Interior courtyard of a brick-built house, possibly Kordofan or Darfur (PRO)
SAD.901/14/15
Earthenware pots for sale at Dilling suq, Nuba Mountains. The pots are made in the neighbouring Nymang hills. (PRO)
SAD.901/14/16
1952 Mar
Camel with `utfah at Kababish tribal gathering at Soderi
SAD.901/15/1
Man watering donkeys at Nahud (NGO)
SAD.901/15/2
Herds of goats and sheep watering at Nahud, with new markets in background (NGO)
SAD.901/15/3
Boy drawing water from a well, Kordofan
SAD.901/15/4
Tukls at the foot of a hill, possibly Nuba Mountains (PRO)
SAD.901/15/5
Young Nuba men, mostly members of the Dilling Company of the Camel Corps and young Nuba girls from the Dilling Elementary School and Training College, dancing the “Kambala” of the Nuba tribes (PRO)
SAD.901/15/6
Road on the outskirts of El Obeid (NGO)
SAD.901/15/7
Aerial view of hafir digging in Kordofan (Min of Information)
SAD.901/15/8
1955 Jan
Tribal leader wearing robe of honour and holding sword, during the P.M.'s visit to El Fasher (PRO)
SAD.901/15/9
1955 Jan
Tribal leaders and district officers during the P.M.'s visit to El Fasher for a tribal gathering. Left to right: Malik Muhammad al-Sayah (President of the Meidob court and nazir of the Meidob tribe); Sayyid `Ali Abu
Sinn (Governor Darfur); Magdum Yusuf Sharif (President of Magdumia court, Kuttum); Muhammad Ahmad al-Amin (District Commissioner, Kuttum); and Shartai Ahmadi Adam Tamim (President of Mellit court and nazir of the Berta
tribe) (PRO)
SAD.901/15/10
Three Shilluk men wearing togas and holding sticks
SAD.901/15/11
Two Shilluk men carrying spears
SAD.901/15/12
Shilluk man wearing toga and strings of beads
SAD.901/15/13
Latuka Village (NGO)
SAD.901/15/14
Azande man examining his groundnut crop at Maridi, Equatoria (PRO)
SAD.901/15/15
Tobacco grower in Yei District
SAD.901/15/16
Sayyid Benyamin Lwoki, Member of the Legislative Assembly for Yei, discussing the prospects for this year's rice crop with rice growers in his constituency (PRO)
SAD.901/15/17
Drying chillies on a farm near Yei (PRO)
SAD.901/15/18
Passengers dispersing from Juba ferry (PRO)
SAD.901/16/1-10
[ca. 1955 - 1965]
Large black and white photographs taken by Bert Hardy for
Picture Post:
SAD.901/16/1
Tracker setting off with police escort
SAD.901/16/2-3
Tracker at work, with police escort
SAD.901/16/4
Vegetable suq, Northern Sudan
SAD.901/16/5
Hadanduwah shop
SAD.901/16/6
Women plaiting hair while sitting on `anqarib, camel and `utfah in background, Northern Sudan
SAD.901/16/7
Women pounding grain in wooden containers, Southern Sudan
SAD.901/16/8
Southern Sudanese man blowing animal horn
SAD.901/16/9
Southern Sudanese woman using grinding stone
SAD.901/16/10
Men drying crop in front of luak
SAD.901/16/11
[ca. 1950s]
Black and white photograph of young Arab girl with basket on her head
7. Printed material
Printed material deposited with collection; now integrated into library and catalogued on OPAC
