History Scotland

FINAL WORD

What was the original purpose of the archives studied by the One More Voice team?

Such archives, very roughly speaking, originally served to preserve the documents of the British Empire. What One More Voice does is shift scholarly focus in these archives to the presence and voices of non-European contributors.

How many archive partners are involved at this stage?

At this stage, we are in initial partnership with three archives, SOAS

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