Grenada and UNESCO: Caribbean Knowledge Societies

Building Caribbean Knowledge Societies: IFAP Conference in GrenadaOver 50 delegates from 13 Caribbean countries gathered for the First UNESCO Regional IFAP Conference in Saint George's, Grenada during the 15th and 17th June 2011. Under the theme "Building Caribbean Knowledge Societies", the Conference aimed to...

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Archive Talk - Birth dates and the British Empire

Archive Talk - Birth dates and the British EmpireI always feel a mild sense of archivist euphoria when I encounter a document bearing my birth date: 9 July. Certainly the oldest such document I’ve uncovered while working on the ARCHIVE project lives at the Rosenbach Museum and Library: a 9 July, 1657 letter written...

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