Endangered Archives Programme

2005

Project Ref: EAP046

Pilot Project

Title of project: Pilot project to seek, identify, contact, and report on collections of the endangered archives of the states of Maranhão and Pará in the Amazon region of Brazil

Principal investigator: Mr Carlos Liberato de Sousa

Host institution: York University, Canada

Location of archival material: Brazil

Award: £12,991

Duration: 12 months

2006

Project Ref: EAP060

Pilot Project

Title of project: Diaspora collections at the major archives of the province of Matanzas, Cuba

Principal investigator: Mr Oscar Grandio Moraguez

Host institution: York University, Canada

Location of archival material: Cuba

Award: £10,953

Duration: 11 months

Project Ref: EAP087

Pilot Project

Title of project: Northern Nigeria: precolonial documents preservation scheme

Principal investigator: Dr Mohammed Salau

Host institution: York University, Canada

Location of archival material: Nigeria

Award: £10,191

Duration: 12 months

2007

Project Ref: EAP141

Pilot Project

Title of project: Ibadi private libraries in the Mzab Heptapolis, Algeria

Principal investigator: Mr Yacine Daddi Addoun

Host institution: York University, Canada

Location of archival material: Algeria

Award: £11,570

Duration: 12 months

Project Ref: EAP148

Pilot Project

Title of project: Inventory of archival holdings in Jamaica

Principal investigator: Miss Nadine Hunt

Host institution: York University, Canada

Location of archival material: Jamaica

Award: £11,023

Duration: 8 months

2008

Project Ref: EAP184

Major Project

Title of project: Digitisation of endangered African diaspora collections at the major archives of the province of Matanzas, Cuba

Principal investigator: Mr Oscar Grandio Moraguez

Host institution: Harriet Tubman Institute, York University

Location of archival material: Cuba

Award: £44,246

Duration: 24 months

2009

Project Ref: EAP256

Pilot Project

Title of project: Preservation of endangered historical records in the Public Records and Archives Administration (PRAAD) in Tamale, Northern Ghana

Principal investigator: Dr Ismail Montana

Host institution: Northern Illinois University

Location of archival material: Ghana

Award: £10,987

Duration: 6 months

Project Ref: EAP284

Pilot Project

Title of project: Before the war, after the war: preserving history in Sierra Leone

Principal investigator: Professor Paul Lovejoy

Host institution: York University Location of archival material: Sierra Leone

Award: £13,480

Duration: 12 months. 

Project Ref: EAP255

Major Project

Title of project: Creating a digital archive of Afro-Colombian history and culture: black ecclesiastical, governmental and private records from the Choco, Colombia

Principal investigator: Dr Pablo Gomez

Host institution: Vanderbilt University

Location of archival material: Colombia

Award: £44,834

Duration: 24 months. 2009

Project Ref: EAP323

Major Project

Title of project: Endangered African diaspora collections of the state of Pará in the Amazon region of Brazil

Principal investigator: Mr Carlos Liberato

Host institution: Harriet Tubman Institute, York University

Location of archival material: Brazil

Award: £56,874

Duration: 24 months

2010

Project Ref: EAP357

Pilot Project

Title of project: Identifying endangered monastic collections in the Säharti and Enderta regions of Tigray (Ethiopia)

Principal investigator: Dr Meley Mulugetta Bazzabeh

Host institution: York University

Location of archival material: Ethiopia

Award: £14,870

Duration: 3 months

2011

Project Ref: EAP443

Major Project

Title of project: Nineteenth century documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives

Principal investigator: Professor Paul Lovejoy

Host institution: York University

Location of archival material: Sierra Leone

Award: £38,877

Duration: 24 months

Project Ref: EAP503

Major Project

Title of project: Creating a digital archive of a circum-Caribbean trading entrepôt: notarial records from La Guajira

Principal investigator: Dr Jane Landers

Host institution: Vanderbilt University

Location of archival material: Colombia

Award: £44,958

Duration: 12 months