Seized Grenada Documents

Where are the Original Seized Grenada Documents?Two interesting new developments related to documents seized by U.S. forces when the invaded  Grenada in 1983 during their "Operation Urgent Fury" - one is a fully declassified National Security Directive newly available online and the second are meeting notes...

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Preservation: Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory

Planning to Constructing a Book and Paper Conservation Laboratory?A wonderful example of a conservation laboratory which opened after a long process of several years of planning and construction, is the Brooklyn College Library's lab. They were lucky in receiving a Comprehensive Community Action Program grant...

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Our Heritage: Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson Remembered

English Heritage Blue Plaque for Leslie "Hutch" HutchinsonLeslie "Hutch" HutchinsonA lost daughter rediscovers her Grenadian heritage and that a father she never knew was the link to our island - at one time considered a great cabaret stars of the twentieth century, then to have died in almost total obscurity...

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Grenada Heritage: Chasing William Macintosh

Who was Macintosh Thanks to enterprising researcher I. Keighren (UoL) we get a little hint of this character and his place in Grenadian history. William Macintosh was an eighteenth-century Scottish merchant, Caribbean plantation owner, world traveller, and controversial author of Travels in Europe, Asia,...

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What's Happening to Your Library

DocumentsHere are a collection of useful documents related to the development of the Library Services.[Revised May 2013] 1850 Public Libraries Act. 1942 McColvin Report - See this for a summary of what it says and its relevance today. 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act - Outlines the statutory duty of councils...

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Grenada Heritage: Our Plantation Estates - part 1

St John's Wood Church Memorials to Plantation Owners In a parish church next to Lord’s Cricket Ground in north-west London (England), just to the north of Regent’s Park is the Church of St John’s Wood, built in 1808. During the Middle Ages, St John’s Wood really was a wood, which took its name from the...

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Heritage at Risk – Parliament Building Still Derelict

Disgusting ShameThe Parliament Building, February 2012In many countries, there exists some building that is a national symbol. As such, the preservation and well being of this symbol is fiercely protected. For Grenada, that building should be The Parliament Building, York House.Yet today - eight years on, The...

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Preservation: Conservation Training

Become a ConservatorThe Grenada National Archives hopes with the new Library facilities being built within the University of the West Indies Grenada Campus in 2013, that we shall be able to realise a long awaited dream of to become renowned as a foremost forerunner in the field of Document Preservation and Conservation....

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