Creating unique collections: Caribbean history and culture

Part of the remit of the School is to provide services that would not be replicated elsewhere in the UK university sector. One example of how SAS-Space can help is the growing collection of scholarly resources for the history and culture of the Caribbean. There are two standard reference works for Commonwealth research from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies: Theses in Progress and the Register of Commonwealth Research.
However, these are complemented by other resources: a collection of articles on West Indian music in the Caribbean and England from an Associate Fellow of the ICwS; and articles on nineteenth and twentieth century history of Cuba from an Associate Fellow and a graduate student of the Institute for the Study of the Americas.

New MA dissertations

This time of year traditionally sees the deposit of the best of the MA dissertations submitted in the 2009-10 session. Recent new deposits include dissertations on food and cultural memory from the IGRS, and on the history of London from the IHR.

New work on European literature

New items from fellows of the IGRS include a paper on the Austrian writer Cornelius von Ayrenhoff, and papers by Aino Rinhaug on various aspects of Portuguese literature.