The Digital Collections
The digital collections contained in the Fawkes Library and Archives Collection consists of a variety of primary source materials associated with the life and times of Sir Randol Fawkes and includes newspaper articles, photographs and books.
Fawkes Demands Restoration of his Notary Public License
Article from The Nassau Herald - March 17th 1956.
Labour Unite or Perish!
Reprinted from The Nassau Herald.
The writings that launched a movement.
A Champion to the End
Lindsay Thompson - The Nassau Guardian (June 22, 2000)
Sir Randol Fawkes, the Father of the Labour Movement, was no stranger to the Guardian’s newsroom. He came and went like he was one of us. For the most part, he just wanted someone to talk to, and if you needed his input for a story, he gladly gave it.
Marching To The Beat Of His Own Drum
Tribune's Independence Supplement 2001
“In one of those strange quirks of fate, two of the most commanding figures in Bahamian history were snuffed out within two months of each other in the milestone year 2000.”
A Loose Cannon with a Pivotal Role in Our History
The Tribune, Millennium Supplement 1999
“One of the most enduring images of Sir Randol Fawkes, long before his knighthood was conferred, is of the rebellious Labour leader suspended horizontally between two policemen as they ejected him from the House of Assembly.”