2020 Babel Unbound: Rage, Reason and Rethinking Public Life. Lesley Cowling and Carolyn Hamilton (eds.), Johannesburg: Wits University Press.

2016 Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Identity and the Material Record in Southern KwaZulu-Natal in the Late Independent and Colonial Periods. (2 vols.) Carolyn Hamilton and Nessa Leibhammer (eds.), Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press.

2014 Uncertain Curature: In and out of the Archive, Carolyn Hamilton and Pippa Skotnes (eds), Cape Town: Jacana Press.

2013 Archive Special Issue, South African Historical Journal, 65, 1.

Carolyn Hamilton "Forged and Continually Refashioned in the Crucible of Ongoing Social and Political Life: Archives and Custodial Practices as Subjects of Enquiry," 1-22. DOI:10.1080/02582473.2013.763400

Megan Greenwood (2013) "Watchful Witness: St George's Cathedral and the Crypt Memory and Witness Centre,"  23-43, DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2013.768366

Grant McNulty (2013) "Archival Aspirations and Anxieties: Contemporary Preservation and Production of the Past in Umbumbulu, KwaZulu-Natal," 44-69, DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2012.729602

Jill Weintroub (2013) "On Biography and Archive: Dorothea Bleek and the Making of the Bleek Collection," 70-89, DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2013.763401

Sara Byala (2013) "MuseumAfrica: Colonial Past, Postcolonial Present," 90-104,DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2013.768365

Susana Molins Lliteras (2013) "From Toledo to Timbuktu: The Case for a Biography of the Ka'ti archive, and its Sources," 105-124, DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2013.763402

Hedley Twidle (2013) "Writing the Company: From VOC Daghregister to Sleigh's Eilande," 125-152, DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2013.763399

2012 Three interlinked essays on “Political Co-presence of Disparate Identities in Two Regions of South Africa in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries”, Journal of Southern African Studies, 38(2): 281-318, Carolyn Hamilton and Simon Hall.

Carolyn Hamilton and Simon Hall (2012) “Reading across the Divides: Commentary on the Political Co-presence of Disparate Identities in Two Regions of South Africa in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries”. Journal of Southern African Studies,  38(2): 281-290. DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2012.679420

Carolyn Hamilton (2012) "Political Centralisation and the Making of Social Categories East of the Drakensberg in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries". Journal of Southern African Studies,  38(2): 291-300. DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2012.682842

Simon Hall (2012)  "Identity and Political Centralisation in the Western Regions of Highveld, c.1770–c.1830: An Archaeological Perspective", Journal of Southern African Studies, 38(2): 301-318. DOI: 10.1080/03057070.2012.682839

2011 Special Focus, “The making of an Archive”, History in Africa, 38:319-416. Carolyn Hamilton, John Wright, Sarah Jappie, Shamil Jeppie.  

Carolyn Hamilton (2011) "Backstory, Biograpghy, and the life of the James Stuart Archive." History in Africa, 38: 319-41. Accessed February 24, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41474554.

John Wright (2011) "Ndukwana kaMbengwana as an Interlocutor on the History of the Zulu Kingdom, 1897-1903" History in Africa, 38: 343-368. Retrieved February 24, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41474555

Saarah Jappie (2011) "From the Madrasa to the Museum: The Social Life of the "Kietaabs" of Cape Town". History in Africa, 38, 369-399. Retrieved February 24, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41474556

Shamil Jeppie (2011) "History for Timbuktu: Ahmad Bul'arāf, Archives, and the place of the past". History in Africa, 38, 401-416. Retrieved February 24, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41474557