How the other half lives: Ministry of Information wartime propaganda

Recently catalogued and added to the collection are a series of leaflets published by the Ministry of Information during the Second World War. These include the “How the other half lives” series, published in London, of which we hold the following titles:


The day's work of a District Officer in Nigeria.
Commonwealth leaflets. How the other half lives ; series C, 1

A day in the life of a Nigerian Emir.
Commonwealth leaflets. How the other half lives ; ser. C, 3.

The life of a West African cocoa farmer / by a son of one of them.
Commonwealth leaflets. How the other half lives ; ser. C, 3.

A day in the life of a native treasury scribe. (in Nigeria)
Commonwealth leaflets. How the other half lives ; ser. C, 4

The daily life of a district commissioner's clerk. (in the Gold Coast, now Ghana)
Commonwealth leaflets. How the other half lives ; ser. C, 5.

A letter to Susan : being an account of the day-to-day life of farmer's wife in Kenya in war time.
Commonwealth leaflets. How the other half lives ; ser. C, 6

A day in the life of a Tanganyika Chief.
Commonwealth leaflets. How the other half lives ; ser. C, 7

The daily life of an African peasant farmer in Kenya.
Commonwealth leaflets. How the other half lives ; ser. C, 8

Life in Nigeria.
Commonwealth leaflets. How the other half lives ; ser. C, 8

We currently know little about the circumstances behind the publication of these titles and the propaganda purposes and audiences for which they were intended. Any information would be gratefully received. (Or an interesting project for a MA student perhaps?)

Jamaica and the Caribbean: Beyond the Boundary

Jamaica and the Caribbean: Beyond the Boundary
Fri 2 Nov - Sun 4 Nov at the Watershed, Bristol



This three day celebration of 50 years of independence for Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago kicks off with a one-day public conference featuring guests including Rupert Lewis (Professor in Political Thought, University of the West Indies, Jamaica) and Gavin Nicholas (High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago.) Join them for a reflection on the political, cultural and economic development of these countries since independence but also their impact on the Caribbean Diaspora in Bristol and the UK.

Over the weekend, there will be talks (by Colin Grant and Andrea Stuart), poetry and screenings including Blood and Fire, a history of Jamaica’s struggle for independence and Omnibus: Beyond a Boundary, a reflection by the great Trinidadian intellectual CLR James on the influence of cricket on Caribbean society. Sit back and relax on Sunday with Sounds from the Caribbean; a double-bill of Calypso Dreams featuring Harry Belafonte, The Mighty Sparrow and Singing Sandra followed by Reggae, the first feature-length film financed by Black people in Britain.

Co-curated by Dr Edson Burton and Dr Peter Clegg presented by Watershed and UWE in partnership with Festival of Ideas and Afrika Eye Festival.

Further details including on how to book tickets can be found at: http://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/season/216/jamaica-and-the-caribbean-beyond-the-boundary/

Opening Hours

Term time opening hours started on Monday 24th September and run through until the 15th of December 2012


Monday - Thursday: 09.00 - 21.00
Friday: 09.00 - 18.30
Saturday: 09.45 - 17.30
Sunday: Closed

Please note:

Services, floors and reading rooms close 15 minutes before advertised closing time.
Last admission is 15 minutes before advertised closing time.

Welcoming your new students - a message for teaching staff

We’re always keen to further promote the use of the collections within the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, as well as related collections within Senate House Library and the Institute of Historical Research.


With the start of a new academic year we're keen to hear how we could work with you to help your students exploit resources held here. We are happy to arrange induction tours and training sessions for groups of students, and if you are interested, please do get in touch.

We are also interested in providing workshops on specific resources or primary sources – we have strong archive collections for example on slavery and on pre- and post-independence politics in the Caribbean, on apartheid era Southern Africa, and on areas such as freedom of the press, and would be pleased to work with you to help student explore and understand the use of archival sources.

We would also welcome any general comments on information training needs and how we could contribute to meet these needs; as well as any other general comments and feedback.

Individual research consultations are available for postgraduate research students – these may be especially useful for students starting PhDs.

Please respond by email to david.clover@london.ac.uk
 

Australian Research Data

Research Data Australia, the flagship service of the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), provides a comprehensive window into the Australian Research Data Commons. The site acts as a portal or catalogue describing Australian data collections, and includes over 40000 collections from a wide range of contributers covering a wide range of subjects, including Austrlian history, society and economics. The data includes details of projects receiving Australian Research Council funding, so is a useful starting off point ofr a wide range of research.

Research Data Australia is described as an Internet-based discovery service designed to provide rich connections between data, projects, researchers and institutions, and promote visibility of Australian research data collections in search engines. ANDS seeks to bring about four transformations to data - unmanaged to managed, disconnected to connected, invisible to findable and single use to reusable - that will enable Australia's research data to become a national strategic resource to support better, more efficient and defensible research, and improved policy input. ANDS is funded by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) and the Education Investment Fund (EIF) Super Science Initiative.

New Zealand and the South Pacific: 19th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association

New Zealand and the South Pacific

 

The 19th annual conference of the New Zealand Studies Association, together with the Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, Radboud University
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
27-29 June 2013

 

The New Zealand Studies Association (NZSA) has a long and strong history in promoting New Zealand Studies. Building on the success of the 2006 conference in Paris, the 2008 conference in Florence, the 2009 conference in Frankfurt, and the 2012 conference in Gdansk, the 2013 gathering of the NZSA will be located at Radboud University, Nijmegen. This very special conference will be held in the Netherland's oldest city, easily connected to Amsterdam, and near the banks of the Waal river. On the Friday, there will be a special excursion, followed by a conference dinner.

 

Keynote speakers: 

• Professor Michael Belgrave
• Professor Tom Brooking
• Professor Marc Delrez
• Professor Witi Ihimaera
• Professor Toon van Meijl
• Assoc. Professor Damon Salesa
• Professor Philippa Mein Smith
• Assoc. Professor Makere Stewart-Harawira
• Vincent Ward

Proposals for 20 minute papers must be sent by 12 January to Ian Conrich (email: ian@ianconrich.co.uk) or Toon van Meijl (t.vanmeijl@ru.nl). The conference will consider all papers that address issues within one of the four following strands:
[1] New Zealand as a South Pacific nation,
[2] New Zealand in relation to any of the South Pacific countries (Polynesia, Australia, and beyond),
[3] Maori Studies,
[4] The South Pacific (with papers accepted on any of the islands and any aspect of the region, but with a priority given to Polynesia).
Definitions within these parameters are broad, with the first strand, for instance, covering much of New Zealand Studies and welcoming any papers on New Zealand as a country positioned within the South Pacific, or as a nation with a South Pacific identity.

The conference fee will include annual membership to the NZSA, which for 2013 includes a twice-yearly journal, and one book each from the New Zealand Film Classics and the New Zealand Writers series of monographs. Papers from the conference will be published in the refereed Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, published by Intellect.

 

The conference will accept proposals on a range of subjects including the following: literature, history, film, music, art, cultural studies, sociology, geography, tourism, war studies, politics, international relations, identity and multiculturalism, anthropology, Maori Studies, Pacific Studies, archaeology and museum studies.

Gender and History in the Americas seminar series

‘Gender and History in the Americas’ is a new seminar series at the Institute for Historical Research, London.
Held at 17.30 on the first Monday of the month from October 2012, the series offers a forum for speakers to present research investigating women’s and gender history from a hemispheric perspective that stretches from Canada to Argentina, Mexico to the Caribbean. The presentation of works-in-progress and contributions from postgraduate and early career scholars are particularly encouraged, reflecting our desire to create a series in which new and cutting-edge ideas can be shared and discussed in an intellectual and supportive environment.


1st October 2012 Jay Kleinberg (Brunel University): Cigars and Politics: An Intersectional and Transnational Approach to Cuban Women's Immigration and Work in the United States, 1880-2000 Senate House Montague Room (Room 26)

5th November 2012 Nadja Janssen (Independent Scholar): ‘The Ruin is Irreversible’: Female Voices in the Anti-Feminist Backlash, 1970 – Present
Senate House Holden Room (Room 103)

3rd December 2012 Helen Glew (University of Westminster): Ladies, legislation and letters to Lester Pearson: policy and debates about married women's right to work in Canada, 1945-1970
Stewart House STB5

7th January 2013 Althea Legal-Miller (Independent Scholar): “Mistreated and Molested”: Jailhouse Violence and the Civil Rights Movement
Senate House Torrington Room (Room 104)

4th February 2013 Beverley Duguid (RHUL): A Jamaican Odyssey: Nancy Prince’s Travels to Jamaica in 1840
Stewart House STB5

4th March 2013 Imaobong Umoren (Postgraduate student): ‘No more must we be regarded as toys- but women of foresight, strength and skill’: Black Women, Intellectual Connections and Travel across Europe and the Americas 1920s-1940s
Stewart House STB5

Please note there will be no seminar in April and May due to Bank Holidays

3rd June 2013 Dawn-Marie Gibson (RHUL): In Our Own Voices: Modest Models Inc
Senate House Torrington Room (Room 104)

Convenors:
Professor Jay Kleinberg (Brunel University), Dr Rachel Ritchie (Brunel University), Dr Inge Dornan (Brunel University), Dr Lee Sartain (Portsmouth University), Dr Dawn-Marie Gibson (RHUL), Ms Imaobong Umoren (King’s College London), Dr Sinead McEneaney (Saint Mary’s University College),  Dr Natalie Zacek (University of Manchester)

For further information, contact the Society for the History of Women in the Americas shawsociety@gmail.com

Caribbean Research Seminar in the North

An Interdisciplinary Research Seminar on the Caribbean and its Diasporas, in association with the Society for Caribbean Studies

FRIDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER 2012
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

PROGRAMME

Lara Putnam (History, University of Pittsburgh): “Citizenship at the Edge of Empire: The (Caribbean) Colonial Context of Arendt and Marshall, 1924-1948"

Kate Houlden (English, University of Surrey): “The Plantation and the Popular: Edgar Mittelholzer's Kaywana Trilogy”

Parvathi Kumaraswami (Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies, University of Manchester): “Testimonial Culture and the Cuban Revolution: Its Function in Social Construction and Integration”

Kristy Warren (Sociology, University of Warwick): “Bermuda Today”

Registration is free, but please let us know in advance if you would like to attend, as places will be limited. A reservation for dinner at a local restaurant will be made for 6:30 p.m., so please indicate if you would like to come to dinner. To register, contact Natalie Zacek natalie.a.zacek@manchester.ac.uk

A few bursaries are available to cover travel costs within the U.K. for postgraduate students attending this event. To apply, please contact Henrice Altink henrice.altink@york.ac.uk stating your topic, university, and the name and address of your supervisor.

Travel directions to the University of Manchester can be found here: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/travel/ .

International Conference: 1804 & Its Afterlives

International Conference: 1804 & Its Afterlives

The Space, Nottingham Contemporary, Friday 7th & Saturday 8th December 2012

1804 & Its Afterlives brings together international speakers whose path-breaking studies have challenged previous orthodoxies about the Haitian Revolution, its local and international repercussions, and its afterlives as inspiration for critical thought, cultural production and political change. Speakers include Colin (aka Joan) Dayan, Barbara Browning, Michael Largey, Dick Geary, Ada Ferrer, Martin Munro, Millery Polyné, Matthew J Smith, Nick Nesbitt.

Free. Book online to receive a full conference programme:

http://nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/1804-its-afterlives

Supported by the University of Nottingham Institute for the Study of Slavery

THE BRITISH LIBRARY'S ENDANGERED ARCHIVES PROGRAMME

The Endangered Archives Programme is now accepting applications for the next round of funding. Please share this information and consider applying if you know of any collection of records that needs assistance in conservation and digitisation.
You may be interested to see that the majority of grants from the last funding round have now been awarded. Details of the successful projects are available on the EAP website http://eap.bl.uk/database/awards.a4d?award=2012 The digital collections from 17 projects are also now available for access through the EAP website http://eap.bl.uk/index.a4d#coll

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library is now accepting grant applications for the next round of funding. Detailed information on the timetable, criteria, eligibility and procedures for applying for a grant is available on the Programme’s website. Applications will be accepted in English or in French. The deadline for receipt of preliminary grant applications is 2 November 2012.

Since it was established eight years ago, the Programme has so far funded 190 projects worldwide with grants totalling £4.9 million. The Programme is funded by Arcadia, in pursuit of one of its charitable aims to preserve and disseminate cultural knowledge and to promote education and research. The aim of the Programme is to contribute to the preservation of archival material worldwide that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration. The endangered archival material will normally be located in countries where resources and opportunities to preserve such material are lacking or limited.

The Programme’s objectives are achieved principally by awarding grants to applicants to locate relevant endangered archival collections, where possible to arrange their transfer to a suitable local archival home, and to deposit copies with local institutions and the British Library. Pilot projects are particularly welcomed, to investigate the survival of archival collections on a particular subject, in a discrete region, or in a specific format, and the feasibility of their recovery.

To be considered for funding under the Programme, the archival material should relate to a ‘pre-modern' period of a society's history. There is no prescriptive definition of this, but it may typically mean, for instance, any period before industrialisation. The relevant time period will therefore vary according to the society.

For the purposes of the Programme, the term ‘archival material’ is interpreted widely to include rare printed books, newspapers and periodicals, audio and audio-visual materials, photographs and manuscripts.

The Programme is keen to enhance local capabilities to manage and preserve archival collections in the future and it is essential that all projects include local archival partners in the country where the project is based. Professional training for local staff is one of the criteria for grant application assessment, whether it is in the area of archival collection management or technical training in digitisation.

The Programme is administered by the British Library and applications are considered in an annual competition by an international panel of historians and archivists.

For further details of application procedures and documentation as well as EAP projects and collections, please visit the Programme’s website: http://eap.bl.uk/

Email: endangeredarchives@bl.uk

Menzies Centre for Australian Studies events

The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies organises public lectures, conferences, seminars, briefings, book launches and literary readings, which help to produce a more comprehensive, detailed and balanced perception of Australian politics, economics, life and culture.

Their Autumn Term events are now listed on their website.

The weekly seminar sessions start next week with a talk by Graeme Davison of Monash University:

Wednesday 19 September 2012
18.15, Room K6.63, King's Building
Graeme Davison (Monash)
‘Rethinking the Australian Legend’
Graeme Davison has taught at the University of Melbourne, Harvard University, where he was Visiting professor of Australian Studies, and at Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Academy of the Humanities and an adjunct professor in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His main interest is in the history of cities in Australia, Britain and the United States. His current projects include a collaborative history of the Powerhouse Museum and a history of suburban Australia.

Wednesday 26 September 2012
18.15, Room TBC
Roger Scott (Queensland),
‘The 2012 Queensland State Elections’
Followed by a poetry reading by Andy Kissane

Emeritus Professor Roger Scott has worked in Queensland for most of the past 35 years, mainly teaching public policy. In 1990 he moved from being Vice-Chancellor of the University of Canberra to become Director-General of Education in the Goss era and moved from there in 1994 back into senior academic positions. He is currently an honorary professor in the Centre for the Government of Queensland in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Queensland.

All seminars are free, and all members of the public are welcome to attend. RSVP to convener: Professor Carl Bridge, email: carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk

Collaborative Networks Colloquium: Culture and the Canada-US Border

The Institute for the Study of the Americas cordially invites you to attend the following event.


Tuesday 18 - Wednesday 19 September, 10:00 - 18:30
Collaborative Networks Colloquium: Culture and the Canada-US Border
In collaboration with the Native Studies Research Network UK (NSRN), School of American Studies, University of East Anglia and the Culture and the Canada-US Border Network (CCUSB)

Tuesday: (CCUSB)

Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths): 'Sovereign/Power': The Exigencies of Nationalism, Sovereignty and Separatism in Modern America

Catherine Bates (Huddersfield): Thing theory, waste studies and indigenous culture in Canada and the US: can mutually productive connections be made?

Dylan Robinson (Royal Holloway):"What Utopia Feels Like": Hope and its Foreclosure in Indigenous Music

James Mackay (European University of Cyprus): TBA

Wednesday: (NSRN)

John Wills (Kent): “Playing the Indian: The Arcade Western and New Frontier Avatars”

Reeta Humalajoki (Durham): “Debates Surrounding United States Native American Termination Policy in the Domestic and Native Spheres, 1950-1970”

Gareth Clayton (independent scholar, formerly of UEA and University of Victoria, Canada): “Adaptation and Re-articulation: WSÁNEĆ First Nation Cedar Carving Amidst Territorial Restriction”

Maureen Kincaid Speller: TBA

To register, please complete the online form at http://www.kent.ac.uk/ccusb/events/london.html and return, with payment, to Dr Catherine Barter, School of English, Rutherford College, University of Kent, Giles Lane, Canterbury CT2 7NX.

Please note: a small amount of travel assistance for postgraduate students will be available on a first-come first-served basis to attend the CCUSB event on the Tuesday/both days. Contact David Stirrup(dfs@kent.ac.uk) for further details. Regrettably, this money cannot be used to attend the NSRN day only.

Venue: Room 104 (Senate House, 1st Floor)
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

For further information, please contact chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk

Pamphlets on the South African War

Concluding our posts on the collected volumes of Pamphlets on the South African War (DT930 SOU) volume 4 includes pamphlets published in  German and French languages, and volume 5 revisits US perspectives on the War:

Volume 4 contains:

Sudafrika niederdeutsch! / von Fritz Blen.
Munchen : J.F Lehmann's Verlag, 1898.
Der Kampf um das Deutschtum ; vol.17.

Demolins, Edmond, 1852-
Boers et Anglais : ou est le droit? / Edmond Demolins.
Paris : Firmin-Didot et cie., [1900]

Vlugt, Willem van der, 1853-1928.
Transvaal versus Great-Britain : a short commentary upon the Dutch address to the British people / by W. van der Vlugt.
Amsterdam : J.H de Bussy, 1899.

Bureau international permanent de la Paix.
Correspondance bi-mensuelle : edition speciale -no.2 / Bureau international permanent de la Paix. "12 Decembre 1899".

Sud-Afrika -englisch oder deutsch-hollandisch? / von einem
Deutschen aus Sud-Afrika.
Berlin : Vita, 1899.

Guerre de l'Angleterre contre les Boers / Arthur Le Creps.
Perpignan : Maison du Canigon ; 1899.

England in Sudafrika : und die grossen germanischen Weltinteressen / von Heinrich Freiherrn Langwerth Simmern.
Wiesbaden : Lutzenkirchen & Brocking, 1902.

Methods of barbarism : the case for intervention / by W.T. Stead.
London : Mowbray House, 1901.

Are we in the right? : an appeal to honest men / by W.T. Stead.
London : Mowbray House, 1899.

Supplementary list of books and magazine articles relating to South Africa in the New York Public Library.
New York : New York Public Library, 1899 or 1900.

Volume 5 contains:

Open letter to the duke of Devonshire from Charles Boissevain, editor of the Algemeen Handelsblad.
Amsterdam : "Handelsblad" office, [1900]
"Reprinted from no.22500 of the Algemeen Handelsblad".

Realities of the South African war / by the Marquis of Lorne.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.520 (Mar.1900).

The merits of the Transvaal dispute / by Captain A.T. Mahan.
Originally published in: The North American review vol.170 no.70 (1900)

The doom of the Boer obligarchies : a Netherlander's view of the South African problem / Thomas C. Hutten.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.520 (Mar.1900).

America's attitute toward England / by R.A. Alger, former United States Secretary of War.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).

Could the War have been avoided? / by S.M. Macvane.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).

America and the war / by Sydney Brooks.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).

The responsibility of Cecil Rhodes / by a British Officer.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.520 (Mar.1900).

The military situation in South Africa / Lt.-Gen. John F. Owen.
Originally published in: The North American Review, vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).

Strategical problems in South Africa / Fritz Hoenig.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).

Military problems in South Africa / by Major-General O.O. Howard.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).

The Dutch in South Africa / by Henry Cust.
Originally published in: The North American review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).

The Afrikanders in Natal / by J.C. Voight.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900)

The danger of personal rule in South Africa / by Montagu White.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).

German feeling toward England and America : correspondence between Sidney Whitman, F.R.G.S, and Professor Theodor Mommsen, of the University of Berlin.
Originally published in: The North American Review vol.170 no.519 (Feb.1900).

The South African Republics vs. Great Britain / by a true American.
New York, 1900.

Pamphlets on the South African War continued

Further to yesterday's post, in volume two of the collected Pamphlets on the South African War (DT930 SOU) are collected published pamphlets originating from both the UK and South Africa, including papers pubished by the South African Vigilance Committee:

From Boer to Boer and Englishman / by Paul M. Botha.

London : Hugh Rees, 1900.
Translated from the Dutch by C.L. Botha.

The England of to-day / Ch. Brumm.
Manchester, 1900 (printers) (Thiel and Tangye)
Originally published as "Das heutige England" in Die Zukunft.
Cover title: Translation of Mr. Ch. Brumm's reply in the Zukunft to Dr. Tille's attack on England.

"Liberty" versus liberty : some remarks on a South African petition / R.R. Brydone.
Cape Town : South African Vigilance Committee, 1900.
Vigilance papers / South African Vigilance Committee ; no.4.

Address delivered by Dr. Darley Hartley, President of the South African League, at Johannesburg, S.A.R : August 19th, 1896.
Johannesburg, 1896.

Official reports of General J.H. De la Rey and General J.C. Smuts together with other documents relating to the war in South Africa.
London : The New Age Press, 1902.
Translated from the Dutch.

Boers or English: who are in the right? : being the English translation of "Boers et Anglais: ou est le droit?" / by Edmond Demolins.
London : Leadenhall Press, 1900.

The British case against the Boer republics.
Westminster : Imperial South African Association, [1900]

Speech by the Honourable J. Rose-Innes, Q.C, M.L.AB : at the Municipal Hall Claremont, Cape Colony, 30th March 1900 / J. Rose-Innes.
Cape Town : The South African Vigilance Committee, 1900.
Vigilance papers (South African Vigliance Committee) ; no.72.

President Kruger's retrogressive policy / Anon.

"Never again" : Sir Alfred Milner's reply to ministers' address /Alfred Milner.
Cape Town : South African Vigilance Committee, 1900.
Vigilance papers / South African Vigilance Committee ; no.5.

The Afrikander Bond and other causes of the war / by Theophilus Lyndall Schreiner.
London : Spottiswoode & Co., 1901.

The imprisonment of Mr. Cartwright.
London : South Africa Conciliation Committee, [1901]

The South African churches declare for annexation.
Cape Town : South African Vigilance Committee, 1900.
Vigilance papers / South African Vigilance Committee ; no.1. "April 1900".

Rache fur Transvaal! : Deutschlands Wehschrei und Zukunfts-Programm / von Peter Johannes Thiel.
Elberfeld : Lebensheimer Volks-Erziehungs-Verlag, 1900.

The Transvaal war : a lecture delivered in the University of Cambridge on 9th November 1899 by J. Westlake, Q.C., LL.D.
London ; Glasgow : C.J. Clay and Sons, 1899.

A new report by General J.C. Smuts, State Attorney and Assistant-Commandant General of the South African Republic : to His Honour State President S.J.P Kruger.
London : New Age Press, 1902.

Francais - Boers : Conference de M. Georges Berry, Depute de Paris.
Paris : Comite de la jeunesse francaise en faveur du Transvaal,
1900.

Volume 3 includes pamphlets published in connection with the National Liberal Federation and Liberal Central Association, as well as the Manchester Transvaal Committee, the Peace Society and the Guild of Loyal Women of South Africa:

The strange story of the Spion Kop despatches : a typical instance of ministerial mismanagement.

Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, 1900.
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1829.

A patriotic offer : Why was it refused?.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, [1900]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1834.

A misunderstood despatch.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, [1899]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1821.

The present position / Manchester Transvaal Committee.
Manchester : Manchester Transvaal Committee, 1899.
Manchester Transvaal Committee. Leaflet no.3.

The government and the soliders.
London : Liberal Publication Department, 1900.
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1836.

Sir Edward Clarke on the war in South Africa.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, [1899]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1822.

Slavery under the British flag / by Dr. Spence Watson.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, [1899]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1812.

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman on Great Britain and the Transvaal : from a speech at Ilford, June 17th, 1899 / Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, 1899.
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1805.

Labour leaders and the war.
London : Morning Leader.

Mr. Cronwright-Schreiner on Boer and Bond.
Westminster : Imperial South African Association, 1893.

The Tory government, 1895-1899 : promise and performance.
Westminster : Liberal Publication Department, 1899.
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1819.

Pasting over the old promises : the "ordinary strategy" of the Tories.
London : Liberal Publication Department, [1900]
Liberal Publication Department. Leaflet no.1833.
(includes a cartoon featuring Joseph Chamberlain replacing Unionist social promises with "Vote for khaki" election poster.)

South African war: a memorial to Her Majesty's Government / The Peace Society.
The Peace Society, [1900]
"The following memorial has been sent from the Peace Society to Lord Salisbury".

These are the principles for which our soldiers are fighting.
London.
Sold for the benefit of the War Fund.

The South African graves fund / K.H.R Stuart.
Whyteleafe, Surrey : Guild of Loyal Women of South Africa, [c.1901]
Guild of Loyal Women of South Africa. Circular no.3.
Under the gracious patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, The Duchess of York, and H.R.H. The Princess Christian.

Pamphlets on the South African War

One of the joys of managing a large collection is the opportunity for new discoveries, to come across items I haven't before noticed. Yesterday I was showing the collection to the new History Librarian at Senate House Library, and spotted five volumes entitled Pamphlets on the South African War, held at DT 930 SOU in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies collection

The bound volumes appear to have been collated by a previous librarian and added to the collection (at least in bound format) in 1954. No other information on the origin of the collection is available. The volumes collate a number of pamphlets and articles on the South African War of 1899-1902 from British, European and North American sources, providing a rich source for contemporary thought. Within Senate House Library are also held a large selection of pamphlets on the South African War from the John Burns Collection 


Volume 1 of the Institute's collected pamphlets includes the following titles:

After the war - what then?

Originally published in: Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, v.167, (no.1013), Mar.1900.

"After" in South Africa / Evelyn Ashley.
Originally published in: The national review, v.33 (Nov.1899).

England and the Transvaal / by Sydney Brooks.
Originally published in: The North American review, Vol.169, no.512 (Jul.1899).

The historical causes of the present war in South Africa / by James Bryce.
Originally published in: The North American review, Vol.169, no.517 (Dec.1899).

The Transvaal war and European opinion / by Karl Blind.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.169, no.517 (Dec.1899).

Will the powers intervene in the war? / by Francis Charmes.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.169, no.517 (Dec.1899).

The crux in South Africa / "Calchas".
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, n.s., vol.69 (1901)

The coming settlement / Coloniensis.
Originally published in: The national review, vol.34 (Apr.1900).

Origin, duration and outcome of the War / by Dr. W.J. Leyds, European agent of the South African Republic.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).

England, the Transvaal and the European powers / Hans Delbruck.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).

Great Britain on the war-path / by Vladimir Holmstrem and Prince Ookhtomsky.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).

A vindication of the Boers : a rejoinder to Mr. Sydney Brooks / by a diplomat.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.169, no.514 (Sep.1899).

Recent events in the Transvaal / Thomas R. Dodd.
Originally published in: The Forum (Sep.1899).

A Transvaal view of the South African question / Dr. F.V. Engelenburg.
Originally published in: The North American Review, vol.159, no.515 (Oct.1899).

The case of the Netherlands railway / Fairplay.
Originally published in: The national review [London], [1900 or 1901]

England and the Transvaal / Earl Grey.
Originally published in: The North American review, vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).

Mr. Rhodes, Lord Milner and the South African settlement / E.B. Iwan-Muller.
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, n.s., vol.72 (Sep.1902).

The Government and the War / An officer.
Originally published in: The contemporary review, vol.76 (Dec.1899).

The Portuguese in East Africa / Daniel J. Rankin.
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, vol.47 no 277 (1890)

The South African settlement / J.B. Robinson.
Originally published in: The contemporary review, vol.78 (Oct.1900).

The Boer filibusters in 1884-5 : a study for 1896 / by Styrka.
Originally published in: The united service magazine vol.133 (n.s. vol.12) no.808 (Mar.1896).

L'opinion publique et la guerre Africaine / Ed. Tallichet.
Text in French.
Originally published in: Bibliotheque universelle, vol.18 (1900).
The Transvaal.
Originally published in: The quarterly review, vol.155 no.310, c.1883.

The relation of England to the Transvaal in international law / James Gustavus Whiteley.
Originally published in: The forum (Oct.1899)

How we occupied Mashonaland / John Willoughby.
Originally published in: The Fortnightly Review, n.s., vol.49, no.292 (1 Apr.1891).

The Cape to Cairo : the Buluwayo-Tanganyika and other railways / J.T Wills.
Originally published in: The contemporary review (1899).

The South African conspiracy against British rule / Theodore A. Wirgman.
Originally published in: The nineteenth century (1900).

The tragedy of errors / Auberon Herbert.
Originally published in: The contemporary review, vol.77 (1900).

Issues at stake in South Africa / Alfred Hillier.
Originally published in: The fortnightly review, vol.67 (1900).

The Boer ambition / Douglas Story.
Originally published in: The new century review, vol.6 (Nov.1899).

The Transvaal question : two points of view / Liberticus.
Originally published in: The new century review, vol.6 (Nov.1899).

The expansion of South Africa / John Mackenzie.
"Originally published in: The contemporary review (Nov.1889).

The British Army: resume of a conversation with Field Marshal H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., upon the Transvaal war and considerations arising therefrom.
Originally published in: The North American review ; Vol.170, no.518 (Jan.1900).

CONF: Caribbean Food Cultures

Caribbean Food Cultures: Representations and Performances of Eating, Drinking and Consumption in the Caribbean and Its Diasporas

 

28th to 29th September 2012 at the University of Heidelberg, Germany

 

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Confirmed Keynote Speakers are:

• Professor Rita de Maeseneer (Antwerp) “The Aesthetics of Hunger and the Special Period in Cuba”
• Professor Fabio Parasecoli (New York) “Representations of Caribbean Food in US Popular Culture”

In the Caribbean, food and drinks as products and as acts or performances play a crucial role in various areas of human behavior and interaction: for the self-preservation of the body, as ethnic, religious and national identity markers, in the context of local and global commercial relationships, or regarding the fair allocation of food and relations of production. These biological, social, economic, historical and ethnic dimensions have taken a special turn in the Caribbean – a region that has been heavily influenced by migration.

 

Thus, on the one hand, colonizers, slaves, contract workers, privateers and refugees were components of specific historical relations of production and trade. On the other hand, these different groups of people brought along social, cultural and economic practices related to food, consumer and luxury goods, which were subject to change and (or) hybridization. In the course of decolonization, emigration and tourism these goods and food, in turn, are being re-imported into the former European “motherlands” and North America.

 

The aim of this conference is to explore acts or performances that are related to the production, consumption and the symbolism of food and nutrition in the Caribbean and its diasporas from the perspectives of cultural, social and behavioral sciences. Particular attention will be paid to contemporary and transnational perspectives. These, for example, can be concerned with the social or religious significance of food, abstinence, rituals of exchange and preparation as well as the exchange of culinary traditions and ingredients on the internet. Of further interest are national and transnational representation practices of eating and drinking in literature, popular culture and new media, such as the advertisement of Caribbean products in the region and the diasporas and the symbolic or metaphorical usage of “ethnic food” and its consumption in narrative literature and song lyrics.

 

Conference Venue:

 

Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg (IWH), Hauptstraße 242 http://www.iwh.uni-hd.de/index_engl.html

 

Please contact foodcultures@gmail.com if you would like to register.

 

Organizers: Junior Research Group “From the Caribbean to North America and Back”, Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg

 

For further information visit:  http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/transculturality/karibik-nordamerika_en.html

J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography

The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography


Of interest to anyone looking at issues of mapping and cartography.

The Harley Fellowships - the only one of their kind in Europe - provide support of up to four weeks (normally at GBP 400 per week) for those, from any discipline, doing the equivalent of post-graduate level work in the historical map collections of the United Kingdom. Web site: http://www.maphistory.info/harley.html

The closing date for applications is 1st NOVEMBER 2012. The Fellowship website has an Application page that should provide all the necessary information as well as answering many frequently asked questions: http://www.maphistory.info/application.html

It would be helpful if you could say where you saw this notice.

Please forward to others who might be interested

Email applications to: rose.mitchell@nationalarchives.gov.gsi.uk
Rose Mitchell
Honorary Secretary, J.B. Harley Fellowships

Map archivist
Advice and Records Knowledge Department
The National Archives
Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/maps

New Books - August 2012

A selection of new books added to the collection and catalogue in August 2012, including books on Canadian elections, climate change, displacement and migration, South Pacific social policy, urbanisation in Canada and post-apartheid South Africa:

Mohamoud, Awil (ed), Building institutional cooperation between the diaspora and homeland governments in Africa : the cases of Ghana, Nigeria, Germany, USA and the UK, The Hague : African Diaspora Policy Centre, 2010.


Kanji, Mebs, Antoine Bilodeau and Thomas J. Scotto (eds), The Canadian election studies : assessing four decades of influence, Vancouver : UBC Press, c2012.

Pammett, Jon H. and Christopher Dornan (eds), The Canadian federal election of 2011, Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2011.

Harrison, Trevor and John W. Friesen, Canadian society in the twenty-first century : an historical sociological approach, Toronto : Women's Press, c2010.

Sharifa Begum et al, The CEDAW implementation in Bangladesh : legal perspectives and constraints, Dhaka : Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies, 2011.

Jeffery, Anthea, Chasing the rainbow : South Africa's move from Mandela to Zuma, Johannesburg : South African Institute of Race Relations, 2010.

Farrell, Brian P. (ed), Churchill and the lion city : shaping modern Singapore, Singapore : NUS Press, c2011.

McAdam, Jane (ed), Climate change and displacement : multidisciplinary perspectives, Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2010.

McAdam, Jane, Climate change, forced migration, and international law, Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Wass, Gabriella, Corporate activity and human rights in India, New Delhi : Human Rights Law Network, 2011.

Gillis, Melissa, Disarmament : a basic guide, New York : United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs, 2012.

Economic surveys. Information and communication. Suva, Fiji : Fiji Bureau of Statistics, 2011-

Blum, Stefan, Elites, coercion and collective goods : a rational choice explanation of variations in violence in East Africa (Uganda, Tanzania and Zanzibar), Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2011.

Simon, Thomas W. Ethnic identity and minority protection : designation, discrimination, and brutalization, Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.

Foran, Max, Expansive discourses : urban sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978, Edmonton : AU Press, c2009.

Alexander, Karin and Gape Kaboyakgosi, A fine balance : assessing the quality of governance in Botswana, Pretoria : IDASA, 2012
First annual progress report on the implementation of the first medium term plan (2008-2012) of Kenya vision 2030. Nairobi, Kenya : Government of the Republic of Kenya, Ministry of State for Planning, National Development and Vision, 2012.

Belanger, Yale D. (ed), First Nations gaming in Canada, Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2011.

Morna, Colleen Lowe (ed), The gender based violence indicators study. Botswana, Oxford : Gender Links, 2012.

Smith, Godfrey P. George Price : a life revealed : the authorized biography, Kingston ; Miami : Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.

Kaldor, Mary, Henrietta L. Moore and Sabine Selchow (eds), Global civil society 2012 : ten years of critical reflection, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Migneault, Pier-Luc, Les gouvernements minoritaires au Canada et au Québec : historique, contexte électoral et efficacité legislative, Québec, Québec, Canada : Presses de l'Université du Québec, 2010.

Moore, Jennifer, Humanitarian law in action within Africa, Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.

Obotetukudo, Solomon Williams (ed), The inaugural addresses and ascension speeches of Nigerian elected and non-elected presidents and prime minister, 1960-2010, Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2011.

Helliker, Kirk and Tendai Murisa (ed), Land struggles and civil society in Southern Africa, Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c2011.

Smith, Keith D. Liberalism, surveillance, and resistance : Indigenous communities in Western Canada, 1877-1927, Edmonton : AU Press, c2009

Make peace happen : strengthening political governance for peace, security and stability in Africa, Durban, South Africa : ACCORD, 2012.

Marjit, Sugata and Saibal Kar, The outsiders : economic reform and informal labour in a developing economy, New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Pitcher, M. Anne, Party politics and economic reform in Africa's democracies, New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Thuynsma, Heather A. (ed), Public opinion and interest groups politics : South Africa's missing links? Pretoria, South Africa : African Institute of South Africa, 2012.

Horak, Martin and Robert Young (eds), Sites of governance : multilevel governance and policy making in Canada's big cities, Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.

Nathan, Dev and Virginius Xaxa, Social exclusion and adverse inclusion : development and deprivation of Adivasis in India, New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Amosa, Desmond U. Social policies in Samoa, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2012.

Prasad, Biman Chand and Paul Kausimae. Social policies in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, London : Commonwealth Secretariat, 2012.
Tengatenga, James (ed), The UMCA in Malawi : a history of the Anglican Church, 1861-2010, Zomba [Malawi] : Kachere Series, 2010.

Sims, Bryan M. and Monica Koep (eds), Unfinished business : democracy in Namibia, Pretoria : IDASA, 2012.

LaRocque, Emma, When the other is me : Native resistance discourse, 1850-1990, Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2010.

Statistics Canada, Social and Aboriginal Statistics Division. Women in Canada : a gender-based statistical report, Ottawa : Statistics Canada, c2012

Jafar, Afshan, Women's NGOs in Pakistan, New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Wikipedia workshops at British Library

In September the British Library are running two free Wikipedia workshops aimed at researchers - these sessions are open to all (details are also at http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/inrrooms/stp/workshop/workshops.html#wiki

Join Andrew Gray, the British Library's Wikipedian in Residence to find out how to engage with, and contribute to, Wikipedia.

Wikipedia for Researchers
Friday 7th September, 12:00-13:00, British Library Conference Centre, Chaucer Room

This 1 hour bite-size talk will provide an introduction to Wikipedia and its community. Andrew will introduce ways Wikipedia can be used by researchers, as well as discussing research done using Wikipedia as a subject.

Introduction to Wikipedia
Monday 24th September, 14:00-16:00, British Library Conference Centre, Chaucer Room

This 2 hour workshop will involve a short general introduction to the Wikipedia projects and a discussion of how they are created and developed, followed by a more in-depth practical session involving learning the basics of editing and engaging with other contributors.

Please bring a laptop; there is wireless internet access, but computers are not provided.

Places are free but limited, so please book your place soon to avoid disappointment by emailing claire.packham@bl.uk, specifying which of the sessions you wish to attend.

Given the uneven coverage of Wikipedia with regard to the developing world (despite some excellent projects working to address this) we would encourage Commonwealth scholars who are able and interested to attend.