Lawyer, author and bibliophile Albert Ganado has donated the archive of the Democratic Nationalist Party to the University library’s Department of Archives and Special Collections.
The papers, which cover the years 1958 to 1965, provide a record not only of the party’s history but also of its contribution to Maltese politics and history.
They include the party’s statute, executive committee minutes, correspondence, circulars, electoral programmes, posters, speeches, photographs and propaganda material. The material will shortly be made available to researchers,
The University said this was the first time a Maltese political party’s archive had been passed on to a public institution.