Sudan Notes and Records
journal
Sudan Notes & Records (SNR) (Sūdān fī dafātir wa-mudawwanāt) was a quarterly scholarly journal on Sudanese studies established in 1918 by the British administration of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
History
Sudan Notes and Records was founded in 1918. Until 1952, it was the only regularly-published journal in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The idea for the journal was suggested by the Director of Survey, Lt. Col. Milo Talbot, to Edgar Bonham-Carter (later Sir), then the Legal Secretary of the Sudan government. Talbot felt that "year by year much valuable information was lost or buried in inaccessible files because there was no convenient medium for recording it in the country." This was a problem that might be corrected with a journal. Bonham-Carter took the proposal to J.W. Crowfoot, the Director of the Education Department, and a meeting chaired by Sir Lee Stack was held where it was decided to start a journal. Stack became the Journal's patron. After the death of Stack, Geoffrey Archer took on the role of patron.
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