Exhibitions
The Endangered Archives Programme has held two small exhibitions at the British Library: Beyond Timbuktu: Preserving the Manuscripts of Djenné, Mali (28 September – 6 January 2019) and Sacred Laos in Photographs: The monks’ gaze (1 November 2019 - 9 February 2020). Virtual versions of these can be accessed by clicking on the links; please use the arrows in the top left corner to navigate through the images.
Academic publications
- Bazarov, A (2018) "The Buddhist Book Culture of the Average Person and Buryat Identity" in Sibirica 18: 16-35. DOI:10.3167/sib.2018.170303
- Biagetti, S, Kaci, A, Mori, L, & di Lernia, S (2012) "Writing the desert: the ‘Tifinagh’ rock inscriptions of the Tadrart Acacus (southwestern Libya)." Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa" 47.2.
- Burak, G (2022) "The Virtual Reading Room of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library and the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme." Ars Orientalis, Vol 51.
- Butler M and Bliss D A (2018) "Digital Resources: The Hijuelas Collection." Latin American History, Oxford Research Encyclopedias. DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.618.
- Counsel, G (2019) "Digital archives in Africa and the Endangered Archives Programme." The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites. Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9780429506765-15
- Cramaussel, C (ed) (2022) CONQUISTA Y POBLAMIENTO. Los primeros registros parroquiales y demás fuentes tempranas para la historia demográfica del centro y norte de la Nueva España, siglos XVI – XVIII El Colegio De Michoacán. ISBN/ISSN: 978-607-544-144-3.
- Fathurahman, O (2018) "Female Indonesian Sufis: Shattariyah Murids in the 18th and 19th Centuries in Java." Kyoto Bulletin of Islamic Area Studies 11.
- Gallop, A Teh (2020) "Shifting landscapes: remapping the writing traditions of Islamic Southeast Asia through digitisation." Humaniora 32.2: 97-109. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22146/jh.55487
- Hijjas, M. (2017) "Marks of many hands: Annotation in the Malay manuscript tradition and a Sufi compendium from West Sumatra." Indonesia and the Malay World 45.132.
- Jackson, K (2023) The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj. Cambridge University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009267359
- Jerkov, A and Milnovic V (2018) "Using Innovative Technologies in Preservation and Presentation of Endangered Archives." Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Revised Selected Papers, Springer-Nature Verlag, Vol. 10605.
- Levi, A and Innis, T (2020) "Decolonizing the Archival Record about the Enslaved: Digitizing the Barbados Mercury Gazette." Archipelagos Journal 4.
- Love, P (2019) "Ibadi Manuscripts in Non-Ibadi Libraries." Ibadi Studies blog.
- Mishra, S. and Raj Y (2017) "Gayalal Papers, 1940–1969 v.s.: Life at a Low Rung in XIX Century Military Bureaucracy." in Studies in Nepali History and Society 22.2 (ISSN: 1025-5109).
- Ngom, F (2017) "West African Manuscripts in Arabic and African Languages and Digital Preservation." African History, Oxford Research Encyclopedias
- Ngom, F and Castro, C (2019) "Beyond African orality: Digital preservation of Mandinka ʿAjamī archives of Casamance." History Compass 17.8 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12584
- Nicolae, C I (2020) "Photography and Archaeology in Romania." PhotoResearcher 34, European Society for the History of Photography.
- Payton, C A, Eller, A and Clorméus, L A (2022) "Many Lifetimes of Knowledge: The History of the Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Frères de l’Instruction Chrétienne’s Newspaper Collection and Its Digital Future." Archipelagos Journal 6.
- Peacock, A C S (2019) "Arabic Manuscripts from Buton, Southeast Sulawesi, and the Literary Activities of Sultan Muḥammad ʿAydarūs (1824–1851)." Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 10.1: 44-83, Brill. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/1878464X-01001005
- Philips, J (2014) "The Early Issues of the First Newspaper in Hausa Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo, 1939–1945." History in Africa 41: 425-431.
- Qobo, C K M (2010) "Challenges of Digitizing the Endangered Lesotho Royal Archives." ESARBICA Journal 29.
- Ramírez López, J E (2022) "Los Recuerdos del claustro, por fray Luis Malo: una crónica franciscana olvidada del siglo XIX." Bibliographica 5/2.
- Robinson, G (2014) "Break the rules, save the records: human rights archives and the search for justice in East Timor." Archival Science 14.3-4.
- van Schaik, S (2020) "The Endangered Archives Programme: Towards a different kind of collection." The Newsletter (IIAS) 85.
- Silva, S (2018) "Endangered Archives Programme: experiências arquivísticas e a digitalização de documentos históricos na Paraíba." Revista Acesso Livre 9.
- Suliman, R (2019) "Renewal of the 14-year journey of the Endangered Archives Programme." Alexandria: The Journal of National and International Library and Information Issues 1.11.
- Thapa, S (2015) "Endangered Archives Programme and Digitisation of EAP676: Manuscripts in Nepal.", Abhilekha, No. 33 (2072 VS).
- Zeitlin, D (2008) "Archiving a Cameroonian Photographic Studio With the Help of the British Library Endangered Archives Programme." African Research and Documentation 107.
- Zeitlin, D, Coto E and Zisserman, A (2021) "Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition." Visual Studies 38.3-4. DOI: 10.1080/1472586X.2021.1991238
EAP in the news
- John Crace (2006) Preservation Hoarders The Guardian (UK), 5 September 2006.
- Kyle Jackson (2012) Digitising Endangered Historical Documents in Mizoram Sinlung, February 2012.
- Holland Cotter (2012) A Tribute to Islam, Earthen but Transcendent New York Times 18 April 2012.
- Jerome Starkey (2012) Mali’s Ancient lore of love and magic that al-Qaeda would like to destroy The Times (UK), 01 December 2012.
- The Anguillian (2013) Anguillian Records Preserved on Digital System, The Anguillian, 5 July 2013.
- Culture 24 (2015) Millions of Images from the World’s Endangered Archives Made Available Online Culture 24, 17 February 2015.
- Roslyn Sulcas (2015) British Library Expanding its Endangered Archives Online New York Times, 17 February 2015.
- Courtney Campbell (2016) From invisible to digital: digitising endangered historical documents in Brazil in Open Democracy, 19 May 2016.
- Graeme Counsel (2016) Saving the endangered sounds of West Africa Music In Africa, 26 February 2016.
- Tristan da Cunha News (2017) All Hands’ Things: The Endangered Archives of Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha News, 29 October 2017.
- International Institute of Social History (2018) Grant to Stefano Bellucci by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme IISG, 13 November 2018.
- Nick Leech (2018) British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme sheds new light on the history of Africa and Islam The National 20 October 2018.
- Daniel Abugre Anyorigya (2019) Ghanaian wins grant to digitise Accra’s endangered architectural documents Citi Newsroom, 28 August 2019.
- Kemi Falodun (2022) These organizations are preserving Nigeria's history. Here's how. International Journalists' Network, 24 October 2022.
- Dipawali Mitra (2023) Preserving history: Jadavpur University to digitise rare Santhali texts Times of India, 16 January 2023.
Podcasts and presentations that reference EAP material
- Scheider, J, R Mazuela, and P Weinberg, (2015), Working in and with African Photo Archives. Presentation at IFLA WLIC 2015.
- Caroline Brazier (2016) The British Library and its International Collections Presentation at IFLA Confererence 2016.
- On 26 April 2018, Dr Alex McKay, co-applicant for EAP880, gave the talk "The View from the Palace: The Sikkim Royal Archives" at the Royal Asiatic Society, London.