Research Grants Awarded in 2010
Pilot Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP231 |
| Title of project: | Social history of the Gambia: rescuing an endangered archive, police and court records |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Walter Hawthorne |
| Host institution: | Michigan State University |
| Archival partner: | National Records Services, the Gambia |
| Location of archival material: | Gambia |
| Award: | £11,663 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP345 |
| Title of project: | A survey of the endangered archives of St Vincent, West Indies, during the slavery era |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Kenneth Morgan |
| Host institution: | Brunel University |
| Location of archival material: | St Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Award: | £4,200 |
| Duration: | 2 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP357 |
| Title of project: | Identifying endangered monastic collections in the Säharti and Enderta regions of Tigray (Ethiopia) |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Meley Mulugetta Bazzabeh |
| Host institution: | York University |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £14,870 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP365 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of Makassarese lontara’ pilot project |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Anthony Jukes |
| Host institution: | La Trobe University |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £3,509 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP368 |
| Title of project: | Endangered images of ethnicity and religion in Western Siberia in the late 19th to early 20th centuries |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Elena Glavatskaya |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Location of archival material: | Russia |
| Award: | £10,080 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP383 |
| Title of project: | Preserving and cataloguing the Luis Reyes Garcia' collection of native language audios and copies of nahua documents |
| Principal investigator: | Ms Lidia Ernestina Gomez Garcia |
| Host institution: | Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla |
| Location of archival material: | Mexico |
| Award: | £4,945 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP401 |
| Title of project: | Safeguarding the Ethiopian Islamic heritage |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Hasen Said |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £12,199 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP402 |
| Title of project: | 'PEACH' - preserving East African co-operative heritage |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Linda Shaw |
| Host institution: | The Co-operative College |
| Location of archival material: | Tanzania |
| Award: | £9,440 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP408 |
| Title of project: | From the brink: identifying, collecting and digitising records of the Turks and Caicos Islands after the destruction of Hurricane Ike |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Donald Keith |
| Host institution: | Turks and Caicos National Museum |
| Location of archival material: | Turks and Caicos Islands |
| Award: | £12,242 |
| Duration: | 8 months |
Major Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP254 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of the historical literary heritage of Tigray, Ethiopia: the library of Romanat Qeddus Mika'el |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Denis Nosnitisin |
| Host institution: | Hamburg University |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £14,496 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP333 |
| Title of project: | Collecting and preserving parish archives in an Andean diocese |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Gabriela Ramos |
| Host institution: | Obispado de Huacho |
| Archival partner: | Huacho Diocese Archives |
| Location of archival material: | Peru |
| Award: | £33,444 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP334 |
| Title of project: | Digital preservation of Wolof Ajami manuscripts of Senegal |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Fallou Ngom |
| Host institution: | Boston University |
| Archival partner: | West African Research Center, Dakar |
| Location of archival material: | Senegal |
| Award: | £20,630 |
| Duration: | 7 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP336 |
| Title of project: | Preserving the lay bet andemta: the Ethiopian intellectual legacy on the verge of extinction |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Mersha Alehegne Mengistie |
| Host institution: | Hamburg University |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £11,826 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP340 |
| Title of project: | Photographic preservation of the manuscript collection in the monastic church of Ewostatewos at Däbrä Särabi (Tigray, Ethiopia) |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Michael Gervers |
| Host institution: | The University of Toronto at Scarborough |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £17,346 |
| Duration: | 5 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP341 |
| Title of project: | Rescuing text: retrieval and documentation of printed books and periodicals from public institutions in eastern India published prior to 1950 - major project |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Abhijit Bhattacharya |
| Host institution: | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |
| Archival partner: | Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £39,060 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP347 |
| Title of project: | Vanishing voices from the Uralic world: sound recordings for archives in Russia (in particular Udmurtia), Estonia, Finland and Hungary |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Tjeerd de Graaf |
| Host institution: | Isaac Massa Foundation |
| Location of archival material: | Russia |
| Award: | £44,180 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP352 |
| Title of project: | Endangered manuscripts of Western Sumatra and the province of Jambi. Collections of Sufi brotherhoods - major project |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Irina Katkova |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Location of archival material: | Indonesia |
| Award: | £13,850 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP359 |
| Title of project: | Plan for Valparaíso’s musical heritage digitisation (1870-1930): scores and 78rpm discs |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Atilio Bustos |
| Host institution: | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso |
| Location of archival material: | Chile |
| Award: | £9,778 |
| Duration: | 9 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP372 |
| Title of project: | Preserving early periodicals and newspapers of Tamilnadu and Pondichery |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Sundar Ganesan |
| Host institution: | Roja Muthiah Research Library |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £34,149 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP373 |
| Title of project: | Documenting, conserving and archiving the Tai Ahom manuscripts of Assam |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Stephen Morey |
| Host institution: | La Trobe University |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £17,755 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP375 |
| Title of project: | The transition from a traditional to a modern society: recovering Argentinean and Latin American history through an emblematic publishing company |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Maria Celina Tuozzo |
| Host institution: | Fundacion Simon Rodriguez |
| Location of archival material: | Argentina |
| Award: | £27,588 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP387 |
| Title of project: | Safeguarding Fulfulde ajami manuscripts of Nigerian Jihad poetry by Usman dan Fodio (1754-1817) and contemporaries |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Anneke Breedveld |
| Host institution: | Tilburg University |
| Location of archival material: | Nigeria |
| Award: | £4,169 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP399 |
| Title of project: | Historical collections of manuscripts located at Al-Jazzar mosque library in Acre |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Qasem Abu Harb |
| Host institution: | Council for British Research in the Levant |
| Location of archival material: | Israel |
| Award: | £19,910 |
| Duration: | 5 months |