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Collections reading group

Posted on 16 April 2021 by Caroline Marchant-Wallis — No Comments ↓

By Richard Wragg – Collections Manager For the last few months, the Collections Team have been meeting for a reading group. The texts we have chosen to discuss have all had a focus on decolonisation, equality and diversity. The reading…

Tagged with: Black Lives Matter, Collections, Decolonisation, Reading group
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), Collection Development, Collections, IDS, Legacy collection, MO (Mass Observation), Special Collections, The Keep, Uncategorised, UOSH (Unlocking Our Sound Heritage)

‘Like a child in a candy store’ Gerardo Serra delves into the BLDS Legacy Collection

Posted on 8 September 2020 by Caroline Marchant-Wallis — 2 Comments ↓

Before the spleen of writing, editing (and re-writing and re-editing) sets in, there is a fleeting moment in which the historian is like a child in a candy store, starry-eyed and gleefully lost. I experienced such a moment when, in…

Tagged with: Africa, African history, Archives, Biafra war, Boko Haram, Collections, Colonialism, Decolonization, Francophone, Ghana, Government publications, Lusophone, Nigeria, Postcolonial, Siyaad Barre, Somalia, South Africa, West Africa
Posted in BLDS (British Library for Development Studies), IDS