Walking Alongside History: Designing the Soweto Uprising for a new generation A blog by Chloe Sibley, June 2026Hi everyone! My name is Chloe Sibley and I am a Level 5 Undergraduate student from London Metropolitan…
Soweto Uprising: Then. Now. Next. A Paper Cut Stop-Motion Animation By Rosie BoeA still from my animation, using archival materials as a thematic background and with illustrations based on signs that the students created in…
Designing Memory: What the Archive Leaves Unseen A blog by Tom Standish, June 2026My name is Tom Standish and I am a Graphic Design student at London Metropolitan University. This work reflects my response to…
Giving Voice to History: Creating a Comic and Poster about the Soweto Uprising A blog by Salma Zoe Medina Cameno, June 2026A panel from page 3 of the comic I produced, showing students from Soweto…
A blog by Marina Gentry EspinosaWhen I began my Master’s in Museum Studies at the University of York, I had my sights set on a career in curating. I envisioned myself conducting object research or…
A blog by Olivia Reed Being given the opportunity to work alongside the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre (AALC) for my University of York MA placement introduced me to the exhibition ‘All Shall Be Afforded Dignity!’ (ABSAD!) and the brilliant works of Norman Kaplan. As…
From Distance to Connection: Learning Through Women in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle A blog by Lakshina Bajracharya (studying for an MA in Visual Communications) I Began with Almost Nothing… When this project was handed out to…
Why Do the History of the Anti-Apartheid Struggle and its Heritage Work Matter to Anyone and Everyone? (“To be free is not merely to cast off ones chains, but to live in a way that…
