Research Grants Awarded in 2009
Pilot Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP234 |
| Title of project: | Identification and description of the colonial documentary fond at the Lima Metropolitan Welfare Society (Sociedad de Beneficencia de Lima Metropolitana) |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jesús Cosamalón |
| Host institution: | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Location of archival material: | Peru |
| Award: | £16,485 |
| Duration: | 11 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP256 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of endangered historical records in the Public Records and Archives Administration (PRAAD) in Tamale, Northern Ghana |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Ismail Montana |
| Host institution: | Northern Illinois University |
| Archival partner: | Public Records and Archives Administration (PRAAD), Tamale |
| Location of archival material: | Ghana |
| Award: | £10,987 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP266 |
| Title of project: | History of Bolama, the first capital of Portuguese Guinea (1879-1941), as reflected in the Guinean National Historical Archives |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Birgit Embaló |
| Host institution: | Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa |
| Archival partner: | National Historical Archives at INEP |
| Location of archival material: | Guinea-Bissau |
| Award: | £9,900 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP269 |
| Title of project: | Preliminary survey of Arabic manuscripts in Djenné, Mali, with a view to a major project of preservation, digitisation and cataloguing |
| Principal investigator: | Ms Sophie Sarin |
| Host institution: | La Mission Culturelle, Djenné |
| Archival partner: | La Bibliothèque de Djenné |
| Location of archival material: | Mali |
| Award: | £7,715 |
| Duration: | 4 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP280 |
| Title of project: | Retrieving heritage: rare old Javanese and old Sundanese manuscripts from West Java (stage one) |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Andrea Acri |
| Host institution: | Leiden University |
| Archival partner: | National Library of Indonesia, Padjadjaran University |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £5,898 |
| Duration: | 8 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP281 |
| Title of project: | Locating and identifying Lepcha manuscripts as a first step towards their preservation |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Heleen Plaisier |
| Host institution: | Leiden University |
| Archival partner: | Namgyal Institute of Tibetology in Sikkim |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £9,346 |
| Duration: | 7 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP284 |
| Title of project: | Before the war, after the war: preserving history in Sierra Leone |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Paul Lovejoy |
| Host institution: | York University |
| Archival partner: | Sierra Leone Public Archives |
| Location of archival material: | Sierra Leone |
| Award: | £13,480 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP291 |
| Title of project: | From memory to history: preserving handwritten, typed and photographic sources of Old Believers in the Danube region (18th-20th centuries) |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Oleksander Prigarin |
| Host institution: | Izmail Archives |
| Archival partner: | Izmail Archive |
| Location of archival material: | Ukraine |
| Award: | £9,800 |
| Duration: | 10 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP292 |
| Title of project: | Creation of a digital archive of social reform movements among the Dalit and lower caste groups in Kerala, South West India |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Sanal Mohan Padikaparampil |
| Host institution: | Mahatma Gandhi University |
| Archival partner: | Mahatma Gandhi University |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £5,940 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP294 |
| Title of project: | Recovering the provincial nineteenth-century press: survey of newspapers held in national and regional archives in Peru |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea |
| Host institution: | University of Kent |
| Location of archival material: | Peru |
| Award: | £14,318 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP296 |
| Title of project: | Digitisation of the manuscripts and xylographs held by the Tibetan Yungdrung Bon Library of the Menri Monastery in Dolanji, India |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Edward Proctor |
| Host institution: | Missouri State University |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £6,916 |
| Duration: | 2 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP314 |
| Title of project: | Rescuing Tamil customary law: locating and copying endangered records of village judicial assemblies (1870-1940) |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Zoe Headley |
| Host institution: | French Institute of Pondichery |
| Archival partner: | French Institute of Pondichery, Tamil Nadu State Archives (Chennai) |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £12,966 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
Major Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP211 |
| Title of project: | Digitising Cirebon manuscripts |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Andi Bahruddin |
| Host institution: | State Islamic University Jakarta |
| Archival partner: | National Library of the Republic of Indonesia, Library of PPIM UIN (the State Islamic University), Museum Istiqlal |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £40,923 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP255 |
| Title of project: | Creating a digital archive of Afro-Colombian history and culture: black ecclesiastical, governmental and private records from the Choco, Colombia |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Pablo Gomez |
| Host institution: | Vanderbilt University |
| Archival partner: | Centro Nacional de Estudios y Documentación de las Culturas Afrocolombianas, Quibdo, Chocó |
| Location of archival material: | Colombia |
| Award: | £44,834 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP261 |
| Title of project: | Digital archive of early Bengali drama |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri |
| Host institution: | Jadavpur University |
| Archival partner: | School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £23,710 |
| Duration: | 18 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP262 |
| Title of project: | Retrieval of two major and endangered newspapers: Jugantar and Amrita Bazar Patrika |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Abhijit Bhattacharya |
| Host institution: | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |
| Archival partner: | Archive of the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £31,041 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP264 |
| Title of project: | Preservation through digitisation of rare photographic negatives from Mongolia |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Bayasgalan Bayanbat |
| Host institution: | Monsound and Vision Foundation |
| Archival partner: | Archives for Cinema, Photography and Sound Recording, Ulaanbaatar |
| Location of archival material: | Mongolia |
| Award: | £42,850 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP265 |
| Title of project: | The tifinagh rock inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus mountains (SW Libya): an unknown endangered heritage |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Savino di Lernia |
| Host institution: | University of Rome |
| Archival partner: | Libyan Department of Archaeology, Jerma Museum |
| Location of archival material: | Libya |
| Award: | £52,854 |
| Duration: | 15 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP272 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of historic ephemera and manuscripts from Nepal |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Kanak Mani Dixit |
| Host institution: | Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya |
| Archival partner: | Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya |
| Location of archival material: | Nepal |
| Award: | £21,678 |
| Duration: | 9 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP274 |
| Title of project: | Digital music archiving: Digital archive of North Indian classical music: phase II (special collections) and digital archive of recorded Bengali songs |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Amlan Das Gupta |
| Host institution: | Jadavpur University |
| Archival partner: | Jadavpur University |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £43,224 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP276 |
| Title of project: | Documentation and preservation of Ambon manuscripts |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Titik Pudjiastuti |
| Host institution: | Universitas Indonesia |
| Archival partner: | National Library of the Republic of Indonesia, Library of the University of Indonesia |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £11,616 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP279 |
| Title of project: | A rescue programme for the Matsieng Royal Archives, Lesotho |
| Principal investigator: | Mrs Celina Qobo |
| Host institution: | National University of Lesotho |
| Archival partner: | Matsieng Royal Archives |
| Location of archival material: | Lesotho |
| Award: | £13,956 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP285 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of Gypsy/Roma historical and cultural heritage in Bulgaria - major project |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Veselin Popov |
| Host institution: | Minority Studies Society Studii Romani |
| Archival partner: | Studii Romani Archive at the Ethnographical Institute and Museum (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) |
| Location of archival material: | Bulgaria |
| Award: | £14,200 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP286 |
| Title of project: | Digitising and conserving Ethiopian manuscripts at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies |
| Principal investigator: | Ato Demeke Berhane Teffera; Dr Stephen Delamarter |
| Host institution: | Institute of Ethiopian Studies; George Fox University |
| Archival partner: | Institute of Ethiopian Studies |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £49,237 |
| Duration: | 14 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP295 |
| Title of project: | Digitising the endangered archives of Grenada |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Laurence Brown |
| Host institution: | University of Manchester |
| Archival partner: | Grenada National Archives |
| Location of archival material: | Grenada |
| Award: | £39,297 |
| Duration: | 21 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP298 |
| Title of project: | Preserving endangered ethnographic audiovisual materials of expressive culture in Peru |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Raul Romero |
| Host institution: | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| Archival partner: | Audiovisual Archives of the Institute of Ethnomusicology (Catholic University of Peru) |
| Location of archival material: | Peru |
| Award: | £47,771 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP310 |
| Title of project: | The digital documentation of manuscripts in Thadrak, Tshamdrak and Nyephug Temples |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Karma Phuntsho |
| Host institution: | The Loden Foundation |
| Archival partner: | National Library and Archives of Bhutan |
| Location of archival material: | Bhutan |
| Award: | £44,300 |
| Duration: | 10 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP323 |
| Title of project: | Endangered African diaspora collections of the state of Pará in the Amazon region of Brazil |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Carlos Liberato |
| Host institution: | Harriet Tubman Institute, York University |
| Archival partner: | Arquivo Público do Estado do Pará |
| Location of archival material: | Brazil |
| Award: | £56,874 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP326 |
| Title of project: | Buddhist archive of photography, Luang Prabang, Laos - major project phase II |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Hans Berger |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Archival partner: | National Library of Laos |
| Location of archival material: | Laos |
| Award: | £103,157 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP327 |
| Title of project: | Guinea's Syliphone archives |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Graeme Counsel |
| Host institution: | University of Melbourne GSA |
| Archival partner: | Bibliothèque Nationale de Guinée |
| Location of archival material: | Guinea |
| Award: | £22,322 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP329 |
| Title of project: | Digitising private collections of Acehnese manuscripts located in Pidie and Aceh Besar regencies |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Fakhriati M.Thahir |
| Host institution: | Lembaga Pengembangan Kehidupan Beragama |
| Archival partner: | National Library of Indonesia |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £37,854 |
| Duration: | 18 months |