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?)
Friday, 28 September 2012
Thursday, 27 September 2012
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/
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/
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
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.
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
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
Monday, 24 September 2012
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.
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.
Friday, 21 September 2012
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:
[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.
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
27-29 June 2013
- 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
[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.
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
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
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
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