33,052 records, 160 countries, 90 languages
The British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) Legacy Collection tracks the unfolding story of international development over the last half century and provides an unparalleled resource for better understanding the history of evolving development interventions since the 1960s.
The collection comprises over a quarter of a million items categorised under 19 themes, and the types of material held include government and international agency reports and statistics; pamphlets and writings by civil society actors, research institutions and political parties; documents from participatory and community-based research; and serials and related books.
Thanks to funding from the Wellcome Trust (2019-2023), the material has now been meticulously catalogued, organised and preserved, and is available to consult in the Library of the University of Sussex.
Latest posts
Band Aids or Workers Control – some reflections from the BLDS Legacy on the current controversy
We’ve been prompted to write this post by the recent controversy around the 40th anniversary of Band Aid – with the re-release of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ having provoked criticism from Africans both on the continent and in the diaspora. In his Guardian article (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/03/criticism-bob-geldof-band-aid-charity-single-africa-caused-storm-fuse-odg) Fuse ODG complains that the single ‘inadvertently contributed to…
DISCUS-Library Joint Project to apply AI tools to the Camel Forum Working Papers from the Somali Academy of Sciences and Arts
The aim of this post is just to give a very quick overview of a joint project between the Library and the Data-Intensive Science Centre at the University of Sussex (DISCUS). This began with a successful proposal to the 2024 Development Studies Association (DSA) conference by Danny Millum, Paul Gilbert and Alice Corble, to run…
Exploring different approaches to using Tricontinental and Mujeres in your research from a library perspective
A little belatedly we wanted to write up the details of the ‘Exploring different approaches to using Tricontinental and Mujeres in your research from a library perspective’ workshop, which took place on Monday 22 April in the Global Studies Resource Centre. It was organised as part of the ongoing EIF (Education and Innovation Fund) sponsored…
The British Library for Development Studies Legacy Collection 