As part of the national Archive Awareness Campaign 2007 the Institute of
Commonwealth Studies is planning a one-day conference entitled "Freedom
and Liberty?: The Archival Record, Slavery, Abolition, Labour and
Nationalism in the Caribbean". The conference will be held on Monday
October 15th 2007, at the Institute for Commonwealth Studies.
Papers are invited which reflect on the use of archives to reveal
aspects of Caribbean history, and we are particularly interested in
papers which include reference to collections held at the Institute for
Commonwealth Studies and Senate House Library.
The Conference will mark the Bicentenary of the Parliamentary Abolition
of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, as well as the launch of the
University of London Research Library Services (ULRLS) electronic
catalogue for archives and manuscripts, which makes descriptions of more
than 2,000 unique collections searchable online in one place for the
first time.
The range of material listed on the catalogue is extraordinarily
diverse, and includes the papers of the West India Committee and the
Caribbean Council (within ICS 96 and ICS 97); the Castle Wemyss Estate
papers (ICS101) and Taylor family correspondence (ICS120) both offering
the perspective of plantation owners on the abolition of the
transatlantic slave trade and the records of Sandbach, Tinne and Co
(ICS70) revealing the perspective of shipping companies in the period.
Many collections, including the C L R James papers (ICS40), the
microfilm of the Richard Hart papers (ICS122 /M861) and our archives of
political ephemera, address the political issues surrounding 20th
century decolonization, the West Indies Federation and independence.
Material relevant to Caribbean studies can also be found at the Senate
House Library, including within the Goldsmiths' Library and Bishop
Porteus library, and the Newton family, Akers family and Hewitt archive
collections.
Brief abstracts should be sent to:
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David Clover
Information Resources Manager/Librarian
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
University of London
28 Russell Square
London WC1B 5DS
020 7862 8840
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