The Emily Hobhouse Letters: South Africa in International Context, 1899-1926

艾米丽·霍布豪斯(1860-1926)在南非被誉为南非战争(1899-1902)的女英雄，但她在南非事务和国际竞选活动中的广泛参与在很大程度上是鲜为人知的。与此同时，在英国，她一直被忽视，她在第一次世界大战期间为救援工作和国际和解所做的有争议的尝试从未得到适当的解释。艾米丽·霍布豪斯书信项目是一个国际研究项目，主要关注恢复霍布豪斯由活动家、作家、记者和政客组成的跨国书信网络，这样做为20世纪早期帝国和南非历史提供了必要的重新国际化，并纠正了她在英国的忽视。它将由一名驻英国的首席调查员领导，他将与英国和南非的联合调查员一起工作，并与英国和南非的档案管理员和博物馆专业人员合作，恢复学术和公众对霍布豪斯遗产的参与，并询问为什么对霍布豪斯和她的圈子来说，南非成为20世纪早期自由帝国主义和自由国际主义的试金石。该项目将制作一部联合撰写的专著和期刊文章，以及一个国际展览(参观Bodleian、赫尔历史中心、利斯卡尔德博物馆、战争博物馆和Smuts House博物馆)，重点是霍布豪斯动员一个有影响力的、相互关联的跨国书信网络，这些书信网络包括贵格会教徒、国际选举权活动家、反奴隶制活动家、殖民政治家、改革者和作家、印度和非洲国民议会成员、英国的新自由主义者和社会主义者。这些将突出霍布豪斯和她的圈子在战争、重建、劳资纠纷和关于民族自决的争论的时代为南非和解所做的形成经验，并将探讨这种参与--特别是他们对种族的态度--对第一次世界大战后欧洲和南非的和平、救济和国际监督政治的态度所留下的遗产。展览将展示新存放在Bodleian的Emily Hobhouse文件的材料，这些材料将首次与她在英国、日内瓦和南非的档案馆的大量信件放在一起，以评估她对写信的战略使用以及女性政治活动的幕后影响。该项目将雇用两名研究助理：一名受雇全职在南非档案馆和图书馆进行研究；另一名受雇于0.5个职位，为期18个月，在日内瓦救助儿童会等国际组织的档案中进行研究。双方都将充分参与该项目的产出及其更广泛的传播。研究小组还将指导实习档案保管员对霍布豪斯档案进行编目和有选择地将其数字化，并就此向非洲历史研究人员和档案保管员SCOLMA会议及其公报进行报告。在南非与Bodleian档案保管员、学校教师和遗产专业人员一起举办的讲习班将探索向包括中学生在内的多个受众介绍这项新研究的最佳方式，为展览、相关的公开讲座和网站的推出做准备。该项目的网站将包括专门的“学习之门”，它将使用数字化的Hobhouse材料作为结构化教学材料的门户，并包括战争博物馆和Smuts House收藏品的可下载博物馆音频指南(用于伴随展览或远程使用)。在自由国家大学举行的关于南非帝国历史重新国际化的会议将扩大这一承诺，参与正在进行的后种族隔离时代的复兴和对南非历史的反思。

Emily Hobhouse (1860-1926) is celebrated in South Africa as a heroine of the South African War (1899-1902), but her wider involvement in South African affairs and international campaigning are largely unknown. Meanwhile in Britain she has been disregarded, her controversial attempts at relief work and international reconciliation during the First World War never properly accounted for. The Emily Hobhouse Letters project is an international research project centrally concerned with recovering Hobhouse's transnational epistolary network of activists, writers, journalists and politicians, in doing so offering a necessary re-internationalisation of early twentieth-century imperial and South African history and correcting her neglect in Britain. It will be led by a UK-based Principal Investigator, who will work alongside Co-Investigators in the UK and South Africa, and in partnership with archivists and museum professionals in the UK and South Africa, to renew scholarly and public engagement with Hobhouse's legacy and to ask why, for Hobhouse and her circle, South Africa became the test-case of early twentieth-century liberal imperialism and liberal internationalism. The project will produce a joint-authored monograph and journal articles, and an international exhibition (touring to the Bodleian, Hull History Centre, the Liskeard Museum, the War Museum, and Smuts House Museum), which will focus on Hobhouse's mobilisation of an influential and interlocking transnational epistolary network of Quakers, international suffrage campaigners, anti-slavery activists, colonial politicians, reformers and writers, members of the Indian and African National Congresses, New Liberals and socialists in Britain. These will highlight the formative experience of Hobhouse and her circle's work for reconciliation in South Africa during an era of war, reconstruction, labour disputes, and arguments over national self-determination and will explore the legacy of this involvement - particularly their attitudes to race - for their approach to the politics of peace, relief and international oversight in Europe and South Africa after the First World War. The exhibition will showcase material from the newly-deposited Emily Hobhouse papers at the Bodleian, which will for the first time be placed alongside her voluminous correspondence in archives in Britain, Geneva and South Africa in order to evaluate her strategic use of letter-writing and the behind-the-scenes influence of women's politicking. The project will employ two Research Assistants: one employed full-time to carry out research in South African archives and libraries; the other, employed on a 0.5 post for 18 months, to carry out research in the archives of international organisations such as Save the Children in Geneva. Both will be fully engaged in the project's outputs and its wider dissemination. The research team will also guide the cataloguing and selective digitisation of the Hobhouse Papers by trainee archivists and report on this to the SCOLMA conference for researchers and archivists of African history, and in its bulletin.A workshop in South Africa with the Bodleian archivist, school teachers and heritage professionals will explore the optimum ways to present this new research to multiple audiences, including secondary-school pupils, in preparation for the exhibition, associated public lectures and website launch. The project website will include dedicated 'Gateways to Learning' which will use digitised Hobhouse material as gateways to structured teaching and learning material and include downloadable museum audio-guides to items in the collections of the War Museum and Smuts House (to accompany the exhibition or for use remotely). A conference at the University of the Free State on the re-internationalisation of South Africa's imperial history will extend this commitment to engaging with the ongoing post-apartheid revisioning and rethinking of the South African past.