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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”

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”

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”

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”