Siyaad Barre – The British Library for Development Studies Legacy Collection

‘Like a child in a candy store’ Gerardo Serra delves into the BLDS Legacy Collection

Before the spleen of writing, editing (and re-writing and re-editing) sets in, there is a fleeting moment in which the historian is like a child in a candy store, starry-eyed and gleefully lost. I experienced such a moment when, in 2016, I walked into the basement of what was then the British Library for DevelopmentContinue reading “‘Like a child in a candy store’ Gerardo Serra delves into the BLDS Legacy Collection”