Rhodes House
South Parks Road
Oxford OX1 3RG

Rhodes House Library

Rhodes House is the home of the University’s Commonwealth History library (The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House), known as Rhodes House Library. For information on the Library, contact the reading room on T: 01865 270908

The Library is open from 9am–7pm Monday to Friday and 9am–1pm on Saturday in term time. It closes at 5pm on Fridays out of term.

The Library, which opened in Rhodes House in 1929, specialises in the history and current affairs - political, economic and social - of the Commonwealth and sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to some 200,000 books in these subjects and long runs of Commonwealth government publications, the library holds over 4,000 manuscript collections including the papers of the Anti-Slavery Society, the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, Sir Roy Welensky and many people who served in the Colonial Service or as teachers, doctors, soldiers and engineers in the territories covered.

For detailed information, please contact:

Lucy McCann
T: 01865 270911
E: Lucy.McCann@bodley.ox.ac.uk

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