My bond with the Folk Research Centre reaches back forty years – to 1977, when I came back from Jamaica to spend a year to…
Tag: literary archives
Alexandra Stewart and the Talking Postcards
There are talking postcards in The Alma Jordan Library! Go to the third floor and ask for The West Indiana and Special Collections Section. Don’t…
Celeste Mohammed on the archival inspiration for ‘Hart’s Cut’
I always follow my gut. So, when I accepted the commission to visit the archives at Alma Jordan Library, UWI, St. Augustine, and craft an…
‘Oh Eric, Me Too!’, Anu Lakhan on Eric Roach Manuscripts
I get the same feeling from libraries I get from being in a cold country. A deep and life-long aversion to anything wintery drives me…
Interrogating History and Researching the Unknown: Looking for Lost Caribbean Lit
Street art, Bristol Uk Photo credit: Paul Townsend By Zakiya Mckenzie June 2018 will mark seventy years since the of docking of the Empire Windrush…