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 toContinue reading “Band Aids or Workers Control – some reflections from the BLDS Legacy on the current controversy”
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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 runContinue reading “DISCUS-Library Joint Project to apply AI tools to the Camel Forum Working Papers from the Somali Academy of Sciences and Arts”
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) sponsoredContinue reading “Exploring different approaches to using Tricontinental and Mujeres in your research from a library perspective”
Student Researchers in the BLDS Legacy Collection: Tricontinental, Mujeres, and the Worlds they Invite us to Imagine
The BLDS Legacy team are delighted to announce that they have received funding from the University of Sussex Education and Innovation Fund for the project ‘Student Researchers in the BLDS Legacy Collection: Tricontinental, Mujeres, and the Worlds they Invite us to Imagine’. In this project, we aim to engage students with the British Library forContinue reading “Student Researchers in the BLDS Legacy Collection: Tricontinental, Mujeres, and the Worlds they Invite us to Imagine”
Oil Crisis or Oil Revolution? Using the Sussex Library collections to explore contrasting contemporary Global South and Global North views of the October 1973 OPEC embargo
by Beth Collard and Danny Millum Before we start – a confession. This title and thesis (such as it is!) of this month’s post has been almost completely plagiarised from The Dig podcast episode ‘The Rise of OPEC’. In it Giuliano Garavini talks about how while the oil consuming nations of the Global North sawContinue reading “Oil Crisis or Oil Revolution? Using the Sussex Library collections to explore contrasting contemporary Global South and Global North views of the October 1973 OPEC embargo”
Reimagining non-alignment
This post by Nimi Hoffman, a South African academic who works at the University of Sussex, draws on materials from the BLDS Legacy Collection. It was originally published on the Africa Is a Country website (https://africasacountry.com/2023/09/reimagining-non-alignment) and has been republished with their kind permission under their Creative Commons license. I find myself reflecting again andContinue reading “Reimagining non-alignment”
Re-discovering and mapping the BLDS Legacy Collection through global metadata space and time
As part of their work on the BLDS Legacy Maps and Spheres Project, Alice Corble , Tim Graves and Danny Millum presented a lightning talk to the 2023 CILIP MDG Conference – the talk itself is above, and the abstract follows! The talk discusses the British Library for Development Studies (BLDS) Legacy Collection, a uniqueContinue reading “Re-discovering and mapping the BLDS Legacy Collection through global metadata space and time”
‘Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera’: the legacy of the Chilean coup in the Sussex Library collections
This September marks the 50th anniversary of the Chilean coup of 1973, which saw the overthrow of Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected left-wing government and its replacement by a military dictatorship. Looking back, this is a key moment for all manner of reasons, including the failure of ‘the democratic road to socialism’, the subsequent involvement of theContinue reading “‘Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera’: the legacy of the Chilean coup in the Sussex Library collections”
BLDS Legacy Collection Workshop and Discussion – 17 May 2023
In May this year a really positive and inspiring workshop based on the BLDS Legacy Collection (and funded by the Sussex Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF)) took place. Organised by Paul Gilbert from Global Studies and Danny Millum from the Library, the event was in two parts. The morning featured presentations from a number of researchersContinue reading “BLDS Legacy Collection Workshop and Discussion – 17 May 2023”
Using the BLDS Legacy Collection to research occupational injuries in India
Why does the Government of India put out so many different statistical publications with uninformative names and overlapping information?! And why is none of them consistent over time in terms of what it contains?! I sound grumpy, but it’s actually been an entertaining (if exhausting!) detective chase for me over the last year or so,Continue reading “Using the BLDS Legacy Collection to research occupational injuries in India”
The British Library for Development Studies Legacy Collection 