Summary
Since 2003, the George Padmore Institute has, with the aid of a Heritage Lottery Grant, catalogued the following collections:
Changing Britannia Archive Project
(May 2003 - Oct 2006) - Includes the following collections:
The Caribbean Artists Movement
Papers of Anne Walmsley, gathered for the creation of her book The Caribbean Artists Movement 1966-1972: A Literary and Cultural History, published by New Beacon Books 1992.
Ref: GB 2904 CAM
Date range for collection: 1965-1995.
Material available: newsletters, correspondence, publicity, transcripts of conferences and symposia, transcripts of interviews, administrative documents, audio material, photographs.
New Cross Massacre Campaign
Including the work of the New Cross Massacre Action Committee
Ref: GB 2904 NCM
Date range for collection: 1981-1985.
Material available: minutes, administrative documents, campaign material, reports and discussion papers, publications, posters, photographs, placards, media coverage.
Early Black Education Movement
Including the Black Supplementary School Movement
Ref: GB 2904 BEM
Date range for collection: 1965-1988.
Material available: minutes, administrative documents, campaign material, reports and discussion papers, correspondence, teaching material, newsletters, publications, media coverage.
Black Parents Movement
Including the Alliance of the Black Parents Movement, Black Youth Movement, Race Today Collective and Bradford Black Collective
Ref: GB 2904 BPM
Date range for collection: 1975-1989.
Material available: minutes, administrative documents, campaign material, reports and discussion papers, correspondence, newsletters, publications, photographs, posters, media coverage.
Ephemeral Material from John La Rose (1927-2006)
Ref: GB 2904 JLR
Date range for collection: 1952-1996.
Material available (national and international): publicity material, publications, journals, discussion papers, posters, newspapers, correspondence. Also journals, newspapers and material from Cuba.
Newspapers, UK and Caribbean
Ref: GB 2904 NEW
Date range for collection: 1964-1999.
Material available: Newspapers published in the UK and Caribbean (excludes Cuba — see collection ‘Ephemeral Material from John La Rose’).
Journals, UK and Caribbean
Ref: GB 2904 JOU
Date range for collection: 1961-1995.
Material available: Journals and newsletters published in the UK and Caribbean (excludes Cuba — see collection ‘Ephemeral Material from John La Rose’)
Crossing Borders Archive Project
Nov 2006 - Nov 2008 - Our current project will include the cataloguing of the following collections:
- The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books (1982-1995)
- European Action for Racial Equality and Social Justice (1989-c.1994)
Future archive work
The Institute holds the following archive collections which we aim to conserve, catalogue and make accessible in the future:
- Archives of John La Rose – personal and ephemeral
- Personal archives of individual Trustees
- Carnival Movement (1970s-1990s)
- The Macdonald Inquiry into Racism and Racial Violence in Manchester Schools (The Burnage Inquiry –1987)
- Negro Theatre Workshop
- Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners in Kenya
- Oilfields Workers Trade Union and Trinidad politics
- New Beacon Books (1966-present)
