The Humanitarian Archive is a unique partnership between The University of Manchester Library and the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute. The Humanitarian Archivist, Flora Chatt, introduces the archive here.

The purpose of the archive is to provide a permanent home for the endangered private papers of humanitarians, the archives of small humanitarian organisations, and cultural artefacts associated with humanitarian work from the 1960s onwards. The DHM project will contribute to the archive by:

-> Developing the humanitarian archive by collecting and curating physical and digital collections from individual humanitarians and small NGOs.

-> Creating a digital toolkit for contemporary humanitarians and NGOs seeking to develop sustainable archives. This will ensure that digital records documenting current humanitarian activities survive.

-> Archiving the ongoing project research activities (for example oral histories).

Existing deposits include Elizabeth Wilson and The British Mission in Saigon. More information on each, and other archives in the field of humanitarianism available at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, can be found on their website.