{"id":398,"date":"2021-04-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/librarycollections\/?p=398"},"modified":"2021-03-29T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:27:58","slug":"not-as-boring-as-they-sound-reading-the-history-of-zimbabwean-independence-from-airline-annual-reports-in-the-blds-legacy-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/librarycollections\/2021\/04\/02\/not-as-boring-as-they-sound-reading-the-history-of-zimbabwean-independence-from-airline-annual-reports-in-the-blds-legacy-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Not as boring as they sound \u2013 reading the history of Zimbabwean independence from airline annual reports in the BLDS Legacy Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Danny Millum – BLDS metadata and discovery officer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the many strengths of the BLDS Legacy Collection lies in its holdings of annual reports, from both government departments and public and private companies. While obviously vital source material for business and economic historians, these might appear a little dry to others, but on closer perusal the incidental details of their production are in fact often strikingly revealing of wider social, cultural and political developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n