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To survey the East India Company and Colonial archives of Jamestown, St Helena, South Atlantic
St Helena was first discovered in 1502 and English rule, under the auspices of the East India Company (EIC), was established in 1659. Although best…
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All hands' things*: the endangered archives of Tristan da Cunha (*Tristanian English: things belonging to the whole community)
This project aims to help preserve records relating to life on the island of Tristan da Cunha. The island is part of the most remote inhabited…
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The shared archival heritage of the Force Publique: identifying the military career files of African soldiers in Colonial Congo
Kept at the Institut National des Archives du Congo (INACO) in Kinshasa are extensive collections of career files of individual African soldiers in…
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Digitisation of select 78 RPM gramophone records: rare Bengali songs and drama of the mid-twentieth century (1920-1950)
The Nazrul Centre for Social and Cultural Studies at Kazi Nazrul University in Asansol, West Bengal has recently procured almost four thousand…
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Preservation of the disappearing book heritage of Siberian Buddhists
This project aims to document and digitise Buddhist manuscripts kept in private collections since the time of the total annihilation of monastic…
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Identification and description of the colonial documentary fond at the Lima Metropolitan Welfare Society (Sociedad de Beneficencia de Lima Metropolitana)
The Lima Metropolitana Welfare Society Archive is an invaluable source for understanding Peruvian colonial history in matters as diverse as real…
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Jaffna Protestant digital archive project
The Tamil Protestant community of the Jaffna Peninsula has left an indelible mark on Sri Lanka’s modern history. During the island’s British period…
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Preserving the memory of the colonial past in Dogon country. A survey of historical collections of the endangered archives of Bandiagara
This project aims to survey the integrity, uniqueness and value of the documentary material located in the archive of the Prefecture of Bandiagara…
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Saving archival documents of archaeological researches conducted during the 1920s and 1930s in Ukraine
The aim of this project is to save documents related to an archaeological expedition which, in 1929-1935, investigated a unique complex of…
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Safeguarding Nzema history: documents on Nzema land in Ghanaian national and local archives
The aim of this project is to identify and collect information on relevant documents about Nzema culture and history. These documents regard the…
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Preserving the endangered manuscripts of the Cham people in Vietnam
Historically and culturally, the Cham are probably the most important minority group in Vietnam. Descendants of the Champa kingdom that lasted from…
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Social history of the Gambia: rescuing an endangered archive, police and court records
The Court Record collections of the Department of State for Justice in Banjul, the Gambia, are in a poor state and need urgent preservation. They…
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Creating a digital archive of Indian Christian manuscripts
Portuguese rule in Goa bequeathed a vibrant Catholic community and a rich legacy of Christian texts in Indian vernacular languages. These texts…
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Mathematical practices of the Indian Ocean world in coastal Islamic communities of the Coromandel and Malabar, south India
Trade and faith-based diasporas of Arab Muslims have spawned tremendous amount of literature in Arabic, Persian, Arabi-Malayalam and Arabi-Tamil as…
