Janus: The Alexander Hepple Collection

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RCMS 190	Prints and watercolours of St Helena
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RCMS 194	Policies towards white labour on the South African railways, 1910 to 1935
RCMS 198	Notes on the Boer War, 1899-1900
RCMS 199	The Alexander Hepple Collection
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The Alexander Hepple Collection

Title	The Alexander Hepple Collection
Reference	GBR/0115/RCMS 199 (former reference: MSS 5)
Creator	Hepple, Alexander, 1904-1983, South African politician
Covering Dates	1913–1983 (The dates are approximate.)
Extent and Medium	1 volume, 1 file and 3 boxes; paper/photograph; mixed scripts
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library

Content and context

Alexander Hepple (1904-1983) was born in Johannesburg on 28 August 1904. He was the leader of the South African Labour Party, 1953-1958, and founder and chairman of the Treasons Trials Defence Fund, 1956-1961, and of the South African Defence and Aid Fund, 1960-1964. With his wife Girlie he established the International Defence and Aid Fund's Information Service in London in 1967, which they managed together until their retirement at the end of 1972. Hepple was the author of 'Verwoerd' (Pelican, 1967) and 'South Africa: a political and economic history' (Pall Mall, 1966), as well as numerous pamphlets and articles on political and trade union affairs in South Africa. He died in Canterbury, England, on 16 November 1983.

Material related to the history of the South African trade union movement and the South African Labour Party

Presented by Professor B.A. Hepple, Master of Clare College, Cambridge, Summer 1994.

Access and Use

In Afrikaans, English

Please cite as Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, The Alexander Hepple Collection, RCMS 199

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Indexed

This collection level description was created by MJC and RAS.

Index Terms

Africa

South Africa

Hepple, Alexander (1904-1983) South African politician

South African Labour Party

RCS/RCMS 199 contains:

The South African Labour Party, 1908-1958: a memoir. Hepple had intended to revise the memoir and expand the last section, which deals with his years as leader of the South African Labour Party, but it remained uncompleted at his death, and has received only minor editing. The volume includes an appendix providing a full list of Hepple's parliamentary speeches, books, pamphlets and articles.
1 volume (513 pages); paper; typewritten.

1983

South African Trade Union History.
2 boxes, 1 file; paper/photograph; mixed scripts.

1913–1983