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.
United Bahamian Party Converges on Windsor Park to Garner Voter Support
Excerpt from “The Faith that Moved the Mountains”
WANTED - MEN
“Our greatest need today is MEN. No, not prima donnas, but men. Stout hearted men who know what is right and are willing to stand up for it; who know what is wrong and are willing to fight against it.”
Labour Unite or Perish!
Reprinted from The Nassau Herald.
The writings that launched a movement.
Leon Walton Young Writes a Letter to Randol Fawkes After the Suspension from the Bahamas Bar
Leon Walton Young encourages Sir Randol Fawkes after his suspension from The Bahamas Bar.
The Sir Randol Fawkes Scholarship Award
Tatjana Nicolls - Prize Winner for The Sir Randol Fawkes Scholarship Award, Interview (2014)
No Caricom Without Referendum | June 1993
Sir Randol explores whether The Bahamas should become a full member state of the Caribbean Community’s Caricom.
The First Labour Day / The Burma Road Riot
Sir Randol Fawkes
In this article, Sir Randol F. Fawkes (1924-2000), better known as the Father of Labour in The Bahamas, gives an eyewitness account of the day he saw “hundreds of ragged, black workers moving downhill towards us. I thought all the gates of hell had opened and the demons let loose.”
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.
A Tragic Explosion
Pictured are above Pauline Knowles and Rosalie Fawkes who both were among the first babies to be born at The Princess Margaret Hospital in May of 1953. They are seen visiting with the author of "A Tragic Explosion", Dr. Harold Munnings.
The content for this article was adapted by Rosalie Fawkes from “The Princess Margaret Hospital – The Story of a Bahamian Institution”. The book was authored by Dr. Harold Alexander Munnings.
A Call to Serve
“A Call to Serve” documents my life in Over-the-Hill, Nassau and years of service as an educator, curator and an officer of The Young Women’s Christian Association of The Bahamas. - Rosalie Fawkes
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.”
An Interview by Levard Darling
Consumerism Today, Vol. 6, Issue 2
An interview reprinted from Consumerism Today by the kind permission of Mr. Levard Darling.
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.”