Research Grants Awarded in 2012
Pilot Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP524 |
| Title of project: | To survey the East India Company and Colonial archives of Jamestown, St Helena, South Atlantic |
| Principal investigator: | Professor David Richardson |
| Host institution: | University of Hull |
| Location of archival material: | Saint Helena |
| Award: | £14,469 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP531 |
| Title of project: | Preserving the endangered manuscripts of the Cham people in Vietnam |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Hao Phan |
| Host institution: | Northern Illinois University |
| Location of archival material: | Vietnam |
| Award: | £9,370 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP536 |
| Title of project: | Safeguarding Gambia, Casamance and Guinea-Bissau's oral histories: the Oral History Archive at Fajara, The Gambia |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Toby Green |
| Host institution: | King's College London |
| Location of archival material: | Gambia |
| Award: | £16,625 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP548 |
| Title of project: | The narrative and ritual texts, narrative paintings and other performance related material belonging to the Buchen of Pin Valley, India |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Patrick Sutherland |
| Host institution: | University of the Arts London |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £6,945 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP553 |
| Title of project: | Exploring land and society in pre-partition Sindh (1843-1947): collecting and copying endangered records of Sehwan Sharif and beyond |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Remy Delage |
| Host institution: | Institut Français de Pondichéry |
| Location of archival material: | Pakistan |
| Award: | £12,100 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP561 |
| Title of project: | Listing and digitisation of the land administration archives of imperial Ethiopia |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Tekalign Wolde-Mariam |
| Host institution: | International Institute of Social History |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £10,000 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP569 |
| Title of project: | Safeguarding Nzema history: documents on Nzema land in Ghanaian national and local archives |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Samuel Nobah |
| Host institution: | Fort Apollonia Museum of Nzema Culture and History |
| Location of archival material: | Ghana |
| Award: | £7,535 |
| Duration: | 10 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP593 |
| Title of project: | Lekil Kuxlejal: archiving Tenejapa's indigenous heritage |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Susanna Rostas |
| Host institution: | Homerton College Cambridge |
| Location of archival material: | Mexico |
| Award: | £9,597 |
| Duration: | 9 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP596 |
| Title of project: | Safeguarding Anguilla's heritage: a survey of the endangered records of Anguilla |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Jan Liebaers |
| Host institution: | Anguilla Archaeological and Historical Society |
| Location of archival material: | Anguilla |
| Award: | £12,315 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
Major Projects
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| Project Ref: | EAP521 |
| Title of project: | Digitisation of manuscripts at the Al-aqsa Mosque Library, East Jerusalem |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Qasem Abu Harb |
| Host institution: | Kenyon Institute (CBRL) |
| Location of archival material: | East Jerusalem |
| Award: | £38,070 |
| Duration: | 8 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP526 |
| Title of project: | Digitisation of the endangered monastic archive at May Wäyni (Tigray, Ethiopia) |
| Principal investigator: | Professor Michael Gervers |
| Host institution: | University of Toronto at Scarborough |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £15,828 |
| Duration: | 8 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP529 |
| Title of project: | Digitising 19th and early 20th century Buddhist manuscripts from Dambadarjaa Monastery |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Bayasgalan Bayanbat |
| Host institution: | Monsound and Vision Foundation |
| Location of archival material: | Mongolia |
| Award: | £34,524 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP532 |
| Title of project: | Recovering the endangered archives of the Benue Valley, central Nigeria |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Moses Ochonu |
| Host institution: | Vanderbilt University |
| Archival partner: | Benue State University, Makurdi |
| Location of archival material: | Nigeria |
| Award: | £35,850 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP535 |
| Title of project: | Northern Nigeria: Precolonial documents preservation scheme - major project |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Mohammed Salau |
| Host institution: | The University of Mississippi |
| Location of archival material: | Nigeria |
| Award: | £9,700 |
| Duration: | 3 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP540 |
| Title of project: | Shrines of Accra: Witchcraft trial records at Nai, Korle and Sakumo We, Accra, Ghana |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jonathan Roberts |
| Host institution: | Mount Saint Vincent University |
| Location of archival material: | Ghana |
| Award: | £7,391 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP541 |
| Title of project: | Digitisation and preservation of historical archives in the Public Records and Archives Administration (PRAAD) in Tamale, Northern Ghana |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Ismael Montana |
| Host institution: | Northern Illinois University |
| Location of archival material: | Ghana |
| Award: | £43,355 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP542 |
| Title of project: | Cameroon Photo Press Archives. Protection, conservation, access |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jürg Schneider |
| Host institution: | University of Basel, Centre for African Studies |
| Location of archival material: | Cameroon |
| Award: | £29,451 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP550 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of Yao manuscripts from South Yunnan: text, image and religion |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Jian Xu |
| Host institution: | Sun Yat-sen University |
| Location of archival material: | China |
| Award: | £28,860 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP556 |
| Title of project: | Book heritage of Ural Old Believers |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Irina Pochinskaya |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Location of archival material: | Russian Federation |
| Award: | £28,000 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP563 |
| Title of project: | Preserving the Hume family collection and making it accessible on the web |
| Principal investigator: | Mrs Silvana Lucia Piga |
| Host institution: | Universidad de San Andrés |
| Location of archival material: | Argentina |
| Award: | £22,785 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP566 |
| Title of project: | Endangered Urdu periodicals: preservation and access for vulnerable scholarly resources |
| Principal investigator: | Mr James Nye |
| Host institution: | The University of Chicago |
| Location of archival material: | Pakistan |
| Award: | £52,247 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP568 |
| Title of project: | From indigenous subjects to indigenous citizens: digitising state-society relations in the State Archive of Oaxaca |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Benjamin Smith |
| Host institution: | University of Warwick |
| Archival partner: | Archivo General del Poder Ejecutivo del Estado de Oaxaca |
| Location of archival material: | Mexico |
| Award: | £40,351 |
| Duration: | 24 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP570 |
| Title of project: | Digital documentation of Dongkala, Chizing, Pagar and Phajoding temple archives |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Karma Phuntsho |
| Host institution: | Independent Researcher |
| Location of archival material: | Bhutan |
| Award: | £42,535 |
| Duration: | 10 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP571 |
| Title of project: | Digital preservation of newspapers of the first half of the twentieth century in Nicaragua |
| Principal investigator: | Ms Margarita Vannini |
| Host institution: | Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica, Universidad Centroamericana |
| Archival partner: | Instituto de Historia de Nicaragua y Centroamérica |
| Location of archival material: | Nicaragua |
| Award: | £20,610 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP584 |
| Title of project: | Preserving memory II - documentation and digitisation of palm leaf manuscripts from Kerala, India |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Sudha Gopalakrishnan |
| Host institution: | SAHA: Stirring Action on Heritage and the Arts |
| Location of archival material: | India |
| Award: | £39,800 |
| Duration: | 18 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP602 |
| Title of project: | Preservation of the audio recording collection in the Sherif Harar City Museum, Ethiopia |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Simone Tarsitani |
| Host institution: | Durham University |
| Location of archival material: | Ethiopia |
| Award: | £17,292 |
| Duration: | 12 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP607 |
| Title of project: | Identify, relocate and digitise Native Administration records (1891-1964) - major project |
| Principal investigator: | Mr Joel Thaulo |
| Host institution: | National Archives of Malawi |
| Location of archival material: | Malawi |
| Award: | £22,161 |
| Duration: | 9 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP608 |
| Title of project: | Guinea's Syliphone archives - II |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Graeme Counsel |
| Host institution: | University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association |
| Location of archival material: | Guinea |
| Award: | £32,665 |
| Duration: | 6 months |
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| Project Ref: | EAP609 |
| Title of project: | Digitising Malay writing in Sri Lanka |
| Principal investigator: | Dr Ronit Ricci |
| Host institution: | The Australian National University |
| Location of archival material: | Sri Lanka |
| Award: | £17,680 |
| Duration: | 24 months |