Legacies of British Slave Ownership

From the Reading Room – Legacies of British Slave Ownership
Posted on November 25, 2013 by Charles Harrowell

The collections of Senate House Library are rich with regard to published and manuscript material slavery and plantation life – especially in the Caribbean. Archival resources related to slavery are outlined here. One of the most important collections are the papers of the Newton Estate in Barbados -MS523.

Hannah Young – a PhD student has been reading a range of material from the papers and I asked her how she was using this archive;

Vacancy: PhD Student for Research Program Four Centuries of Labor Camps

The IISH conducts advanced research on the global history of work, workers, and labour relations and to this end gathers data, which are made available to other researchers as well.

As of 1 January 2013, there will be an opening in the research department of the IISH for a

PhD student (m/f)
0.8 working time for four years, location: IISH

Newsletter Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

Newsletter 9, 19/11/2013

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DIALOGHI SULLA DIGNITA'

Migranti, cittadini, persone
21, 22, 23 novembre 2013

Nell'ambito di Bookcity Milano 2013, la Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli e la Fondazione Carlo Maria Martini organizzano tre serate di riflessione sul tema della dignità a partire da testi del cardinale Carlo Maria Martini, Zygmunt Bauman, Cesare Beccaria, Amartya Sen, che hanno indagato questo tema centrale per il nostro vivere collettivo.

PROGRAMMA

Archives and memories students

The City of Student Memory is pleased to invite you on Friday, December 13, 2013 to

The fifth day "Archives and memories students "

" The archives of student activists entering at the National Archives"
under the partnership signed with the Archives of France (Ministry of Culture) .

This agreement will thus allow communication and conservation of archives of student activists (structure and activists of national dimension), at the National Archives. These records will be kept at Pierrefitte -sur- Seine, where will take place the 13th of December.

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