Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Canadian election survey

Canadian election survey


Canadian researchers of politics and elections may be interested in the opportunity below:


Dear Canadianists,
The Government Canada has fallen! As part of a growing trend, there will be multiple election studies in the field during the 2011 election. The election is likely to occur on May 2 or May 9th. Jason Reifler of Georgia State University is conducting a pre-post internet election survey that will have up to 5,000 respondents. Tom Scotto (Essex) and I have funds from the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the UK to include some of our own questions. In the grant, we also specified that we would hold an externally judged competition that will allow UK based scholars with an interest in Canada to pose questions on the survey.

Internet surveys are shorter in length than most face to face or telephone surveys, so we?re really looking at a window of 2-3 questions on the post-election study. If you are interested in posing a question on this survey, please write up the question along with a justification (no more than 250 words) as to why you want this question on the study. We're going to need proposals no later than the 4th April, and final judgment of the questions will rest with a Canadian based panel of election studies experts.

Assume most election study questions are already on the study. So, there's no need to post questions related to vote choice, party id, retrospective evaluations, etc.

Please feel free to contact Tom Scotto or me with any questions!

Ailsa and Tom

Contact information:

Ailsa Henderson (tel: 01316511618)
Tom Scotto (tel: 01206873809)

From: Ailsa Henderson, PhD
Senior Lecturer, Politics
School of Social and Political Science
15A George Square
University of Edinburgh

20th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies - 10-13 November 2011

20th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies - 10-13 November 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Association for Canada Studies in the Netherlands (ACSN), in collaboration with the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, organises the 20th European Seminar for Graduate Students in Canadian Studies - 10-13 November 2011, Groningen, Netherlands

European students working on a master's thesis or a doctoral dissertation in Canadian Studies are invited to present their current research findings and to exchange ideas with Canadianists from other countries.

Presentations can be given in English or in French. They should not exceed 20 minutes and will be followed by a discussion (10 minutes each). A selection of the best papers will be published after the seminar. The seminar sessions will be chaired by established European or Canadian scholars in the field of Canadian studies.

How to Apply

Students interested in participating should submit an abstract (1-2 pages), indicating their topic of research and the nature of their findings, plus a short CV. Applications may be submitted by e-mail. Papers will be selected by the scientific committee on the basis of the abstract. Invitations to participate will be sent out as soon as possible after the selection has been completed.

Deadline for Abstracts: 10 September 2011 - to be sent to the address below.

Official Languages: English and French

Maximum number of Students Admitted: 25

Registration Fee: € 50,--

Travel Expenses: Students' responsibility. Please apply for financial assistance to your university or to your national/regional Association for Canadian Studies (UK students please copy your application to the BACS office when submitting).

Boarding: Accommodation (3 nights from Thursday 10th November to Sunday 13th November, 2011) and meals will be covered by a grant from the Government of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to the European Network for Canadian Studies, by the Canadian Studies Centre at the University of Groningen and by the Association for Canada Studies in the Netherlands. The students will be lodged in the guesthouse of the University of Groningen in the centre of town very close to the venue where the sessions will take place. Some students may be asked to share rooms.

Organizing Committee: Cornelius Remie, Conny Steenman Marcusse, Irene Salverda (ACSN) and Jeanette den Toonder (Canadian Studies Centre, Groningen)

Contact address: Bosweg 12, 6523 NM Nijmegen, Netherlands / Pays-Bas T. (int.+)31-24-323-4525 E. mailto:acsn@upcmail.nl

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Jamiacan Reporter - legal cases 1774-1787

The Harvard Law School Library has recently digitized its copy of Notes of cases adjudged in Jamaica, May 1774 to Dec. 1787 (Edinburgh : Printed by Adam Neill and company, 1794). The Harvard Law School Library purchased this folio volume of 18th century law reports in 1903; it is one of only a few known copies.

These reports of high court cases are based on “the very full notes of every case that came before” John Grant, a native of Inverness-shire (Scotland), and chief justice of Jamaica’s Supreme Court from 1783-1790. Colleagues had encouraged Grant to publish his notes for their use at court, and after retiring to Edinburgh, Grant began to revise his notebook with that goal in mind. Grant died on March 29, 1793, leaving three quarters of his notes unprinted. The task was picked up and continued by friends and colleagues who saw the work through the press; the volume was published in 1794. It is rich in bibliographical references and footnotes and in this copy, an early (and unknown) reader has made occasional marginal annotations.

Among cases included are a number concerned with inheritance and wills, and the volume is a useful source of both legal and social history.

More details are available at:

And the digital copy is at:

Friday, 25 March 2011

Budget documents

With the recent annoucement of the UK budget it is timely to remind researchers of the strengths of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies collections of non-UK government publications generally, and budget publications specifically.

The Library collects budget and budget related documents across the Commonwealth, and these include budget speeches; financial statements; background documents; supplementary documents; discussion papers; responses to budgets from opposition parties, trade unions and NGOs; analyses of budgets.

Within the Library collections is also a growing literature on gender budgeting - integrating consideration of the impacts on women of national budgetary processes.

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

35th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies - International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool

35th Annual Conference of the Society for Caribbean Studies

International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Wednesday 29th June - Friday 1st July 2011

http://www.caribbeanstudies.org.uk/

Registration for this year's conference is now open. Over 70 speakers have submitted abstracts so we are looking forward to an exciting conference. A draft programme is available on the Society's webpage
The Programme includes a presentation by the 2011 Bridget Jones Travel Award winner, Annalee Davis. Annalee has been described as 'one of the region's most important and innovative artists whose work speaks directly to many of the Caribbean's most pressing issues', from the politics of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, to concepts of development, the economic role of tourism and its consequences for small island states, inter-regional migration, and the politics of nationalism and regionalism. Her presentation to the Society for Caribbean Studies Annual Conference, entitled 'Has the Plantation Complex Fallen?', will engage with issues around undocumented migration, 'development' and the transformation of Caribbean landscapes in the era of globalisation.

The International Slavery Museum is located on Liverpool's Albert Dock, which is a World Heritage Site with the largest group of grade 1 listed buildings in the UK. Tate Britain art gallery, The Beatles Story museum, and the Maritime Museum, which is home to the International Slavery Museum, can all be found around the dockside.

Registration

From the Society's webpage you will be taken to a dedicated registration page, which includes the details that were submitted with your abstract. There will be instructions on how to pay registration fees on this page. Recipients of our post-graduate bursaries will be able to select 'Bursary Recipient' from the dropdown fee menu. You can access the registration page here:
Accommodation and Travel information

The Society has a group discount rate with the Holiday Inn Express, located about ten minutes walk from the conference venue. We have also arranged preferential rates for delegates with the Crowne Plaza and Hilton. Details of how to apply for these rates, as well as other near-by accommodation options, please see the Conference Information on our website. You will also find useful information on the site, travel to Albert Dock, parking, and catering.

Queries concerning booking can be directed to: mailto:societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com

Friday, 18 March 2011

Development and Empire, 1929-1962

Development and Empire, 1929-1962
Humanities Research Centre, Univerity of York
1 - 2 July 2011

A two-day conference bringing together scholars based in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America to share knowledge and ideas about British aid-assisted colonial development in the mid twentieth century.

Speakers: Paul Greenough, Jordanna Bailkin, Barbara Bush, David Clover, Billy Frank, Joseph Hodge, Gerald Hödl, Leigh Gardner, Michael Jennings, Margaret Jones, Gerold Krozewski, Edward Hamilton, Lucy McCann, Zachary D. Poppel and Uyilawa Usuanlele.

Today the history of British aid-assisted colonial development from the early to mid twentieth century is a vibrant area of research. This conference will bring together scholars from around the world who work in this area to exchange knowledge and ideas.

Over two days a series of panels will focus on emerging themes and topics such as health and development, regional experiences and metropolitian perspectives. Papers presented by established scholars and early career researchers will consider the meanings of aid-assisted development, its many practices, and its multiple short- and long-term effects. Besides academic papers, the conference will include workshops on archival sources in the UK on colonial development and a round-table on the implications of the papers presented for development policy today.

A keynote address will be given by Professor Paul Greenough (University of Ohio), a leading expert on the social and environmental history of the modern India, on Friday 1 July. He will also deliver a Public Lecture on the eve of the conference, 30 June, entitled "Natural Disasters in Social Theory and South Asia Practice" which is open to all conference delegates.

The conference will be held at the Humanities Research Centre (Berrick Saul Building), University of York. This campus-based venue is a 20-minute bus journey from York train station and a 10-minute bus journey from the centre of York.

The conference is supported by the Department of History and is organised by its British Empire research cluster. Additional financial support has been provided by the Economic History Society, the Wellcome Trust, the Centre for Modern Studies, University of York, and the British Society of the History of Science.

For information on registration and a provisional programme, see the conference website

list available online for early West India Committee records

The West India Committee was formed in the 18th century, by London merchants, engaged in the West Indian trade, and absentee owners of West Indian estates. The Committee acted as a pressure group for West Indian interests, principally in the support of the sugar and rum trades and, in the first decades of its existence, in opposition to the abolition of the slave trade and then slavery.


The collection description of the collection is available on the ULRLS Archives Catalogue.

Included in the collection is a microfilm copy of the early records, minutes and papers of the West India Committee, the original material being sold by the West India Committee to the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, and the microfilm copy being made as a condition of export.

M915 West India Committee minutes 1769-1924 [microfilm] contains:

Minutes and papers of the West India Committee and its predecessors, sub-committees and related organisations, including:

•West India Merchants
•West India Planters and Merchants
•Admiralty Committee of the West India Merchants
•Sub-Committee of the West India Planters and Merchants Appointed to Oppose the Abolition of the Slave Trade
•Literary Sub-Committee of the West India Planters and Merchants
•Merchants, Owners and Masters of Ships
•Jamaica Planters and Merchants
•Country Committees and Proprietors’ Groups: eg. Demerara and Berbice (later British Guiana), Jamaica, Trinidad, and Importers of West Indian Cocoa committees
•British and Colonial Anti Bounty Association
•Board of Commissioners of Grenada and St. Vincent
•Meeting of MPs Interested in the West Indian Colonies

We have added a PDF listing for contents of the microfilm to the collection description. We hope this increases access to the collections and assists users in requesting parts of the collection. (If you want to see this colelction please ask for Reels required). If interested in using this collection please email Senate House Library Special Collections.

Thursday, 17 March 2011

Irish migration and identity within the Commonwealth - a select bibliography

Marking St Patrick's Day, the following select bibliography highlights items in the library collections relating to Irish migration and identity within the Commonwealth. All items are available in the library collections.

Donald Harman Akenson
The Irish in Ontario : a study in rural history
Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1984.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr F1059.7.I7 AKE REFERENCE ONLY

Donald Harman Akenson
If the Irish ran the world : Montserrat, 1630-1730
Montreal : McGill-Queens University Press, 1997.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr F2082 AKE REFERENCE ONLY

Keith Amos
The Fenians in Australia, 1865-1880
Kensington, NSW, Australia : NSWU Press, c1988.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr JV9185 AMO REFERENCE ONLY

Brian P. Clarke
Piety and nationalism : lay voluntary associations and the creation of an Irish-Catholic community in Toronto, 1850-1895
Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1993.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr BX1424.T6 CLA REFERENCE ONLY

Philip James Currie
Canada and the Irish question : 1867-present
Victoria, B.C. : P.J. Currie, c2001.
STACK SERVICE [DEPOS - F1029.I7 CUR REFERENCE ONLY

Richard P. Davis
Irish issues in New Zealand politics, 1868-1922
Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 1974.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr HT1582 DAV REFERENCE ONLY

Bruce S. Elliott.
Irish migrants in the Canadas : a new approach
Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press ; Belfast, Northern Ireland : Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1988.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr F1035 ELL REFERENCE ONLY

David Fitzpatrick
Oceans of consolation : personal accounts of Irish migration to Australia
Cork : Cork University Press, 1994.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr JV7711 OCE REFERENCE ONLY

Lyndon Fraser (ed)
A Distant shore : Irish migration & New Zealand settlement
Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 2000.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DU425.I7 DIS REFERENCE ONLY

Lyndon Fraser
Castles of gold : a history of New Zealand's West Coast Irish
Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2007.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DU425.I7 FRA REFERENCE ONLY

D. W. Harkness
The restless Dominion: the Irish Free State and the British Commonwealth of Nations 1921-31
London ; Melbourne : Macmillan ; Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 1969.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr JN285 HAR REFERENCE ONLY

Irish Republican Association of South Africa
The Irish in South Africa 1920-21
[Cape Town] : Irish Republican Association, [1921]
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DT764.I7 IRI REFERENCE ONLY

Colm Kiernan (ed)
Ireland and Australia
North Ryde, NSW, Australia : Angus & Robertson, 1984.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr JV9185 KIE REFERENCE ONLY

Colm Kiernan
Australia and Ireland 1788-1988 : bicentenary essays
Dublin : Gill and Macmillan, c1986.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DU110 KIE REFERENCE ONLY

T. J. Kiernan
The Irish exiles in Australia
Dublin : Clonmore & Reynolds, [1954]
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr JV9185 KIE REFERENCE ONLY

Donald MacKay
Flight from famine : the coming of the Irish to Canada
Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1990.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr F1035 MAC REFERENCE ONLY

John J. Mannion
Irish settlements in eastern Canada : a study of cultural transfer and adaptation
Toronto : Published for the University of Toronto Dept. of Geography by the University of Toronto Press, [c1974]
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr JV7285 MAN REFERENCE ONLY

Angela McCarthy
Irish migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937 : 'the desired haven'
Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2005.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DU425.I7 MCC REFERENCE ONLY

Trevor McClaughlin (ed)
Irish women in colonial Australia
St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1998.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr JV9185 IRI REFERENCE ONLY

John O'Brien & Pauric Travers (eds)
The Irish emigrant experience in Australia
Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland : Poolbeg, 1991.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr JV9185 IRI REFERENCE ONLY

Sean O'Callaghan
To hell or Barbados : the ethnic cleansing of Ireland
Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland : Brandon, 2000.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr F2041 OCA REFERENCE ONLY

Patrick O'Farrell and Brian Trainor
Letters from Irish Australia, 1825-1929
Sydney, Australia : New South Wales University Press ; Belfast, Northern Ireland : Ulster Historical Foundation, 1984.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr HT1581 OFA REFERENCE ONLY

Patrick O'Farrell
The Irish in Australia
Kensington, NSW, Australia : NSWU Press, c1987.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr HT1581 OFA REFERENCE ONLY

Patrick O'Farrell
Through Irish eyes : Australian and New Zealand images of the Irish, 1788-1948; contemporary photographs by Richard O'Farrell
Richmond, Victoria : Aurora Books, 1994.
STACK SERVICE [DEPOS - HT1580 OFA fol REFERENCE ONLY

Brendan O'Grady
Exiles and islanders : the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island
Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr F1048 OGR REFERENCE ONLY

Kate O'Malley
Ireland, India and Empire : Indo-Irish radical connections, 1919-64
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; 2008.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DS450.I7 OMA REFERENCE ONLY

Patricia Owen and Frances Owen
A rebel hand : Nicholas Delaney of 1798 : from Ireland to Australia : the story of a Wicklow rebel condemned to death, reprieved and transported to New South Wales, where he made a new life and found a large clan of Delaneys
London : Banner, 1999.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DA948.6.D4 OWE REFERENCE ONLY

Geoffrey Partington
The Australian nation : its British and Irish roots
Kew, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishers, 1994.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DU110 PAR REFERENCE ONLY

Brad Patterson (ed)
From Ulster to New Ulster : the 2003 Ulster-New Zealand lectures
Coleraine, Northern Ireland : Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies, University of Ulster, 2004.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DU425.I7 FRO REFERENCE ONLY

Brad Patterson (ed)
Ulster-New Zealand migration and cultural transfers
Dublin, Ireland ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c2006.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr HT1582 ULS REFERENCE ONLY

Brad Patterson
The Irish in New Zealand : historical contexts and perspectives
Wellington, N.Z. : Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr DU425.I7 IRI REFERENCE ONLY

Bob Reece (ed)
Irish convict lives
Sydney : Crossing Press, 1993.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr HV8962 IRI REFERENCE ONLY

Bob Reece (ed)
Exiles from Erin : convict lives in Ireland and Australia
Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1991.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr HV8935 EXI REFERENCE ONLY

Rob Reece
The origins of Irish convict transportation to New South Wales
Basingstoke, Hants. : Palgrave, 2001.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr HV8962 REE REFERENCE ONLY

Anna Rogers
A lucky landing : the story of the Irish in New Zealand
Auckland : Random House, 1996.
STACK SERVICE [DEPOS - JV9262 ROG fol REFERENCE ONLY

Anthony de Verteuil
Sylvester Devenish and the Irish in nineteenth century Trinidad
Newtown, Port of Spain, Trinidad : Paria Pub. Co., c1986.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr F2119.5 D4 DEV REFERENCE ONLY

David A. Wilson
The Irish in Canada
Ottawa : Canadian Historical Association, 1989.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr F1035 WIL REFERENCE ONLY

David A. Wilson (ed)
Irish nationalism in Canada
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009.
ICOMM Ground Floor Libr F1035.I7 IRI REFERENCE ONLY

Monday, 14 March 2011

The Black Atlantic Resource

The Black Atlantic Resource:


http://www.liv.ac.uk/csis/blackatlantic

http://blackatlanticresource.wordpress.com/

Follow us on Twitter: @blackatlantic1

This exciting new resource is a collaborative project between the University of Liverpool and Tate Liverpool originally constructed on the occasion of Tate Liverpool's exhibition "Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic". This resource seeks to promote the study of black Atlantic cultures by providing a hub for access to current research, debates and online materials and a space for scholarly exchange.

The Black Atlantic Resource provides free access to current research, artworks, chronological and bibliographic information in this area. They are happy to publish posts about new publications in relevant fields of study, as well as book reviews, and information about other online resources. If you would like to contribute your research or take advantage of this opportunity to publicise please contact Wendy Asquith: w.j.asquith@liv.ac.uk
The resource also provides information on key historical and current figures working within the flows of the Black Atlantic, including recent profiles on Marcus Garvey: http://www.liv.ac.uk/csis/blackatlantic/information/people%20D-J/Marcus_Garvey.htm

and Renee Cox:
http://blackatlanticresource.wordpress.com/2010/08/14/renee-cox-if-you-dont-ask-you-dont-get-then-you-get-kicked-to-the-curb/

There are a number of platforms through which to access the Black Atlantic Resource. The main site is updated with new content regularly: http://www.liv.ac.uk/csis/blackatlantic

Alternatively you can subscribe to the blog and receive updates each time new material is posted:
http://blackatlanticresource.wordpress.com/

Or you can follow on Twitter, to be kept updated with new online research, resources and debates as well as updates on  new material. Find us: @blackatlantic1.

Friday, 11 March 2011

National Library of New Zealand: Flickr Commons

The purpose of the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa is to enrich the cultural and economic life of New Zealand and its interchange with other nations.

The National Library of New Zealand has contributed since November 2008 to The Commons on Flickr, going live with a selection of 120 historical photographs from the Alexander Turnbull Library, the research library within the National Library. The Library hopes that use of the Flickr Commons helps new people discover some of the wonderful material in their collections.

The National Library's Flick Commons site includes sets looking at circuses, book bindings, 15th century printed books, Wellington, New Zealand Prime Ministers, sports, hunting and fishing, Samoa, Whakarewarewa, and Gallipoli.

Additional images are also available on the general National Library of New Zealand's general Flickr photostream, which includes photographs of the 2010 Christchurch Earthquake, Xmas in NZ, NZ soldiers going sightseeing in France, surf lifesaving, and WW1 Victory Parades. More images are available on the National Library's Timeframes website.

Slavery and the English Country House

Final research papers from the work on slave trade and abolition links commissioned by English Heritage on four sites in its care have now been published on the EH website at:


http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/people-and-places/the-slave-trade-and-abolition/slavery-and-the-british-country-house/

The four sites are: Bolsover Castle, Brodsworth Hall, Northington Grange and Marble Hill House.

A book containing all the papers from the 2009 conference "Slavery and the British Country House" is due to be published by English Heritage later in 2011.

Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Kings College London Library exhibition: The Paradise of the world: conflict and society in the Caribbean

Kings College London Special Collections exhibition ‘The Paradise of the world'


Kings College London is pleased to announce the opening of the Spring 2011 Special Collections exhibition ‘The Paradise of the world: conflict and society in the Caribbean’.

The contrast between the lush natural beauty of the Caribbean region and the story of human conflict and misery that has formed so much of its history is one that cannot fail to strike observers. Edmund Hickeringill, in his 1705 work Jamaica Viewed, echoes Sir Walter Raleigh in speaking of the Caribbean islands as ‘the paradise of the world’. Yet when his book was published Jamaica was Britain’s largest slave-owning colony.

In this exhibition, drawing largely on the holdings of the historical library collection of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, transferred to King’s in 2007, is explored the history of the Caribbean region from the sixteenth century to 1900. The exhibition looks at the dark days of slavery, the long struggle for emancipation and the development of Caribbean society in the nineteenth century.

The exhibition takes place in the Weston Room, Maughan Library and ISC in Chancery Lane and runs from Monday 31 January to Saturday 14 May 2011 (Monday to Saturday 09.30-17.00).

More information is available on the ISS Special Collections webpages.

If you are coming from outside King's you are advised to contact Special Collections staff on 020 7848 1843 or visit our web pages for the latest exhibition news before you travel.

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

Database Trial - UK Press Online

New Database Trial


UK Press Online is being trialled by the Senate House Library. Two million pages of the 20th Century's biggest-selling newspapers, from 1900 to today, all searchable by name, word, or phrase. Daily Mirror Archive, Daily Express Archive, Sunday Express from 2000 and the Watchman Archive 1835-1885. look on the Database trials page.
 
This resource may be useful in showing how events elesewhere were reported in the UK popular press. Do let me know your feedback on the resource.
 
David Clover