Race and diversity

A colonial era printing machine in the museum in Majuli — the world’s largest river island — in India is the subject of this post by Alexander Bubb, who saw it on his visit to the museum earl…

As part of a project on the lack of ethnic diversity in university leadership, Monika Nangia asked professional services colleagues to share their stories. Here’s what they said

A Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Editorial Roles and Peer ReviewThe Focused Toolkit for Journal Editors and Publishers: Building Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility in Editorial Roles and Peer Review is an...

Those working in university archives will be familiar with a common complaint from a person accessing our archives – ‘Why have you organised these photographs by date? Wouldn’t it be better to organise them by location?’ The person might ask this because their research focuses on the locations of the photographs, where the dates do not matter so much to them. This is part and parcel of the work of the researcher, who must always do the labour of decentring the structure of collections when engaging in their research.

Archives and special collections must be structured and organised in order to make them discoverable. But what is hidden or minimised when we structure them in the way that we do, and who is it we are asking to do the work of ‘finding’ them? In this talk, LSE Library curator Daniel Payne shares a project he has been working on to help raise the profile of so-called ‘hidden’ parts of the collection, in response to an analysis of the Library’s flagship collections, in a project called Traces of South Asia.

Speaker: Olivier Marboeuf (ULIP)

19 March 2024

How to approach and account for the forms of presence – political, cultural, material and immaterial, visible and invisible – of the Caribbean diaspora in the cities of Paris and London and their circulation between these two capitals? How to approach the traces of an emancipation project carried by Caribbean communities in spaces born of the imperialist economy and still governed today by the powers of coloniality? How to build forms of representation and alliances capable of responding to systemic violence and producing reparations?

The work that Olivier Marboeuf is currently developing, as part of the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship hosted by the University of London Institute in Paris, attempts to answer this set of questions by showing that they require reconsidering disciplines such as architecture and urbanism and developing new epistemologies and research methods in order to relate to the particular materiality that makes up the archives, forms of life, spaces of transmission and resistance of the Caribbean diaspora at the heart and margins of Europe’s urban centres.

During this presentation, Marboeuf will discuss a method of sharing – and inventing – of the diaspo-Caribbean archive. Inspired by a reading of Sylvia Wynter’s essay “Novel and History, Plot and Plantation” (Savacou n°5, 1971), Marboeuf imagines this particular archive no longer as a series of stable artefacts to classify but as a transdisciplinary, collective and dynamic composition; a weaving of plots, fragments of events, traces and voices. This living archive, which is constantly being reformulated, is the result of the performance of an interpretive community – composed of families, activists, artists and researchers – capable of giving a sense of narrative continuity beyond the apparent dispersion, in space and time,of diasporic narratives. This weaving establishes a negotiated and partially secret place, below the great story of the plantation. Archive and place of memory then become common responsibility and knowledge.

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This session is part of the AfricArXiv Webinar Series on Open Science for the Discoverability of African Research.

Amazing digital collections covering the history and culture of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Includes manuscripts, prints, books and more. Over 900 items currently available via this single website more to be added . Covers a range of topics. including British Empire, missionaries, travel . One example I spotted

• Slavery, in the civilised British Government under the cloak of Brahmanism https://www.loc.gov/item/78984214/

In this book, Dr Ranjan examines the representation of anticolonial and iconic Adivasi leader, Birsa Munda, his political life, memory politics and the making of anticolonialism in contemporary India. The book offers contrasting features of political imaginations deployed in developing memorial landscapes

The UN provides guidance and tools to act now and take concrete steps against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. This poster includes guidance that will help you navigate the highlights of three fundamental documents

Irish in Britain exhibition.

Created by London Metropolitan Archives  (
online exhibition and oral history of Irish migration to Britain since the 1970s. Includes this youtube introduction. Discussion of the oral history archive and those of diaspora organisations
Irish in Britain’ - https://youtu.be/X9WCWLUaF9Q?si=w3HFwgV350cDm0Bp

Other online talks from the London Met archives