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This online exhibition celebrates Archives Awareness Campaign 2004, which is a national campaign to unlock the potential of archives and encourage existing, new and different users to experience all that archives have to offer. This year’s campaign theme is ‘Routes to Roots’, and you will see other exhibitions and events in Archives and Libraries throughout the UK during this period. A number of these also relate to the Caribbean region and details of these can be found on the Archives Awareness Campaign website http://www.archiveawareness.com
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies holds a wide range of archive collections, with particular strengths in the Caribbean and Southern Africa.
This online exhibition showcases some of the materials within our collection relating to the Caribbean. The exhibition examines a number of themes in Caribbean history in a broadly chronological sequence, including slavery and abolition, agriculture and trade, the experience of soldiers from the Caribbean in World War One, independence and the development of trade unions and political parties. The exhibition highlights some of our larger collections relating to the Caribbean, and we have attempted to select images that are both visually exciting as well as being informative on the themes discussed.
For information on how to use this exhibition, and a list of themes covered, see the Exhibition Overview section.
More information on archives at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies can be found at http://www.sas.ac.uk/commonwealthstudies/archives.htm
For more information on the Archives Awareness Campaign visit http://www.archiveawareness.com
Acknowledgements
This exhibition was researched and curated by David Clover, Information Resources Manager, Institute of Commonwealth Studies.The website was designed by Ian Cooke, Deputy Information Resources Manager, Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Thanks to Mary Turner and Marika Sherwood for comments on an early draft of this exhibition.
Gallery
Watercolour of Sir William Young's estate on the island of Tobago
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Map of the Island of Tobago divided into parishes
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Watercolour, "Negro village in Queen's Valley"
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