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History: African and Contemporary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

J. D. Hargreaves
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By a regrettable anomaly in our Association's practice, now removed, two distinguished historians who preceded me in this office — Roland Oliver and John Fage — were never called upon to deliver Presidential Addresses. So, with the exception of our first President (Dame Margery Perham) — whose historical writing achieves a distinction which few of us can hope to emulate, but who has been so much else besides — I find myself the first historian to discharge this duty. I feel somewhat as Lepidus must have done when invited to speak on behalf of the Triumvirate.

I suppose I should begin by claiming — as I think I can justly do — that historians have played a distinctive and important part in the development of African Studies during the last quarter century, and in the affairs of our own young Association.

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ASAUK Presidential Address given at the London symposium, September 1973
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African Research and Documentation , Volume 3 , 1973, pp. 3 - 8
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Copyright © International African Institute 1973

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References

* This address was written during a period of residence at the Study Centre of the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio. To the Foundation, and more especially to Bill and Betsy Olson, I owe my most sincere thanks.

1 References in this section are taken from the Lothian Papers, in the Scottish Record Office, G.D.40/17/246, Oldham to Curtis, 8 January 1931, quoting Day.

2 G.D.40/17/234, Kerr to Coupland, 6 November 1929.

3 G.D.40/17/245, Kerr to Smuts, 13 February 1930, and enclosure.

4 G.D. 40/17/247, Lothian to Day, 20 March, 1931.

5 G.D. 40/17/234, Coupland to Kerr, 11 November, 1929.

6 G.D. 40/17/248, Grigg to Lothian 22 July, 1930: G.D. 40/17/257, Grigg to Lothian, 9, 14 September, 1931.

7 G.D. 40/17/257, Lothian to Grigg, 11 September, 1930.

8 G.D. 40/17/241, Jones to Kerr, 10 June, 1929.

9 ibid., Jones to Kerr, 24 February 1930.

10 G.D. 40/17/259, Oldham to Lothian, 17, 21 September, 1931.

11 G.D. 40/17/248, Flexner to Lothian, 20 June, 1930.

12 G.D. 40/17/248, Lothian to Grigg, 14 July, 1930: Lothian to Harris, 17 September, 1930.

13 G.D. 40/17/246, Lothian to C.H. Siepmann, 14 November, 1930.

14 G.D. 40/17/247, Oldham to Curtis, 8 January, 1931, quoting Day.

15 G.D. 40/17/243, Oldham to Kerr, 6 February, 1930, enclosing memo by Malinowski.

16 G.D. 40/17/256, Curtis of Lothian, 10 July 1931, enclosing F.P. Keppel to Curtis, 30 June.