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Richard Leslie Hill
Richard Leslie Hill (18 February 1901 – 21 March 1996) was an English civil servant and historian of Sudan, "one of the great pioneers in the study of the modern history of the Sudan".R. S. O'FaheyRichard Leslie Hill 1901-1996 ''Sudanic Africa'' 8 (1997), pp. 1-15. This has a comprehensive bibliography, including book reviews and miscellaneous contributions. Lecturer in Near Eastern history at Durham University from 1949 to 1966, he established the Sudan Archive there, "one of the most remarkable initiatives by any British university".Nicolas BarkerRichard Hill: Obituary 3 April 1996 Works Hill's books fall into three main classes: reference works, editions of 19th-century memoirs or travel journals, and synthesising monographs. * ''Toryism and the people, 1832-1846'', 1929 * ''A bibliography of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, from the earliest times to 1937'', 1939 * ''A biographical dictionary of the Sudan'', 1951. 2nd ed., 1967 * ''Egypt in the Sudan, 1820-1881'', 1959 * ''Sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Egypt to the north, Eritrea to the northeast, Ethiopia to the southeast, Libya to the northwest, South Sudan to the south and the Red Sea. It has a population of 45.70 million people as of 2022 and occupies 1,886,068 square kilometres (728,215 square miles), making it Africa's List of African countries by area, third-largest country by area, and the third-largest by area in the Arab League. It was the largest country by area in Africa and the Arab League until the 2011 South Sudanese independence referendum, secession of South Sudan in 2011, since which both titles have been held by Algeria. Its Capital city, capital is Khartoum and its most populated city is Omdurman (part of the metropolitan area of Khar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |