It is noh mistri Wi mekkin histri (Johnson, 1984) Introduction The thing about making history, especially institutional history, is that the truth of lived experience often gets disfigured, silenced, or buried. Such archival asymmetries were addressed by a brilliant line-up…
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Making Black British history and future: reviewing the launch of Black at Sussex
Tagged with: AFRAS, Black British History, Black Cultural Archives, Intersectionality
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Posted in Library Legacies
Many Happy Returns? Reading the November 1964 birth of University of Sussex Library through a (de)colonial lens
58 years ago, on 13 November 1964, University of Sussex Library was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. At this point in time, Sussex was in the first term of its third academic year of life as a new university…
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The Decolonial Maps of Learning blog will serve as a research diary for the project, highlighting snippets from the archives and my ethnographic journey traversing the hidden historical and contemporary institutional and cultural trails of library and archival life at…
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