Research Grants Awarded in 2011
Pilot Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP427 |
| Title of project: | Identify, relocate and digitise Native Administration records (1891-1964) |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Joel Thaulo |
| Host institution: | National Archives of Malawi |
| Location of archival material: | Malawi |
| Award: | £11,410 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP429 |
| Title of project: | A survey of church archives in Botswana |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Shadreck Bayane |
| Host institution: | Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Board |
| Location of archival material: | Botswana |
| Award: | £1,779 |
| Duration: | 4 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP450 |
| Title of project: | Manuscripts of the Sri Lankan Malays |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Ronit Ricci |
| Host institution: | The Australian National University |
| Location of archival material: | Sri Lanka |
| Award: | £10,371 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP454 |
| Title of project: | Locating and surveying early religious and related records in Mizoram, India |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Joseph Lalzarliana |
| Host institution: | Mizoram University |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £7,537 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP462 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of Kaya district colonial archives and assessment of the potential and feasibility of recovering other former district capitals' collections, Burkina Faso |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Mark Breusers |
| Host institution: | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Location of archival material: | Burkina Faso |
| Award: | £10,667 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP469 |
| Title of project: | Last traces of a destroyed community: surveying the Hungarian Jewish congregational archives |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Gábor Kádár |
| Host institution: | Federation of the Jewish Communities of Hungary |
| Location of archival material: | Hungary |
| Award: | £10,570 |
| Duration: | 10 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP474 |
| Title of project: | Regional Archive at Cape Coast, Ghana: pre-colonial and colonial documents preservation project |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Kwabena Adu-Boahen |
| Host institution: | University of Cape Coast |
| Archival partner: | Public Records and Archives Administration Department (PRAAD), Central Region, Cape Coast |
| Location of archival material: | Ghana |
| Award: | £6,388 |
| Duration: | 9 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP500 |
| Title of project: | Documentation of the pre-industrial elements in Bulgarian minorities' culture during the 20th century |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Mila Maeva |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Archival partner: | Specialised Library and Archive Studii Romani |
| Location of archival material: | Bulgaria |
| Award: | £9,900 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP506 |
| Title of project: | A pilot project to survey the Buea Archives and other potentially endangered archives in western Cameroon |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jeffrey Good |
| Host institution: | University at Buffalo |
| Location of archival material: | Cameroon |
| Award: | £10,348 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
Major Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP430 |
| Title of project: | History of Bolama, the first capital of Portuguese Guinea (1879-1941), as reflected in the Guinean National Historical Archives - major project |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Birgit Embaló |
| Host institution: | Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa/INEP |
| Location of archival material: | Guinea-Bissau |
| Award: | £40,317 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP432 |
| Title of project: | Documenting the written heritage of East Goğğam: a rich culture in jeopardy |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Mersha Alehegne Mengistie |
| Host institution: | Hamburg University |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £18,980 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP433 |
| Title of project: | Digitisation of the national sound archives of the Union of Comoros |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Iain Walker |
| Host institution: | University of Oxford |
| Archival partner: | Comoros |
| Location of archival material: | Comoros |
| Award: | £51,658 |
| Duration: | 18 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP443 |
| Title of project: | Nineteenth century documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Paul Lovejoy |
| Host institution: | York University |
| Archival partner: | Sierra Leone Public Archives |
| Location of archival material: | Sierra Leone |
| Award: | £38,877 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP449 |
| Title of project: | Social history and cultural heritage of Mali: preserving the archives of professional photographers |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Candace Keller |
| Host institution: | Michigan State University |
| Location of archival material: | Mali |
| Award: | £30,507 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP458 |
| Title of project: | Constituting a digital archive of Tamil agrarian history during the colonial period |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Zoe Headley |
| Host institution: | Institut Français de Pondichery |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £42,032 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP460 |
| Title of project: | Collection and preservation of Shui manuscripts from private collections in South Guizhou |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jian Xu |
| Host institution: | Sun Yat-sen University |
| Location of archival material: | China |
| Award: | £21,875 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP466 |
| Title of project: | The manuscripts of the Riyadh Mosque of Lamu, Kenya |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Anne Bang |
| Host institution: | Chr. Michelsen Institute |
| Archival partner: | National Museums of Kenya, Lamu Museum |
| Location of archival material: | Kenya |
| Award: | £23,738 |
| Duration: | 9 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP468 |
| Title of project: | To preserve Indian recordings on 'Odeon' label shellac discs |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Suresh Chandvankar |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £8,800 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP485 |
| Title of project: | World War II and the origins of Hausa newspapers: the early years of 'Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo' |
| Principal investigator: | Professor John Philips |
| Host institution: | Hirosaki University |
| Location of archival material: | Nigeria |
| Award: | £12,800 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP488 |
| Title of project: | Major project to digitise and preserve the manuscripts of Djenné, Mali |
| Principal investigator: | Ms Sophie Sarin |
| Host institution: | La Mission Culturelle, Djenné |
| Location of archival material: | Mali |
| Award: | £55,209 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP498 |
| Title of project: | Recovering provincial newspapers in Peru: Lambayeque, Ayacucho, Tacna, Cajamarca and Huancavelica |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Natalia Sobrevilla Perea |
| Host institution: | University of Kent |
| Location of archival material: | Peru |
| Award: | £24,510 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP503 |
| Title of project: | Creating a digital archive of a circum-Caribbean trading entrepôt: notarial records from La Guajira |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jane Landers |
| Host institution: | Vanderbilt University |
| Location of archival material: | Colombia |
| Award: | £44,958 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP505 |
| Title of project: | Digitising parish record collections at the major archives of the province of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Vilma Lúcia de Oliveira |
| Host institution: | Arquidiocese de Natal |
| Location of archival material: | Brazil |
| Award: | £7,530 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP507 |
| Title of project: | Preservation and digitisation of the archival material in the Historical Archive of the San Marcos National University, 1551-1920 |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Francisco Quiroz Chueca |
| Host institution: | Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos |
| Location of archival material: | Peru |
| Award: | £28,880 |
| Duration: | 12 months |