(9 May 2015) The Endangered Archives Programme offers a number of grants every year to individual researchers world-wide to locate vulnerable archival collections, to arrange their transfer wherever possible to a suitable local archival home, and to deliver digital copies into the international research domain via the British Library.
The specific focus of this Programme is upon archives relating to the pre-industrial stages of a society’s development, whether in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, or even Europe.
The 2014 awards for archives in Asia include:
Documentation of endangered temple art of Tamil Nadu
Preservation of the manuscripts of the Jaffna Bishop’s House (1850-1930)
Representing Self and Family. Preserving early Tamil studio photography
Survey and preservation of monastic manuscript collections in villages of Upper Myanmar
Survey of Bengal puthis discovered in Sundarbans, South 24 Parganas, West Bengal
Retrieval, cataloguing and photographic imaging of rare manuscripts, Balochistan-Pakistan
Preservation and access for rare early Kannada books
Digitisation of the endangered Cham manuscripts in Vietnam
Preservation of the music and dance archive at the Music Museum of Nepal
Preservation of historic manuscripts and documents from the Tirthalal Naghabhani Collection, Nepal
Read more about these and other projects here.
The Endangered Archives Programme is here.
