News and updates about community outreach and events we organized or took part.
Spring 2020 public workshops (online due to COVID) introducing participants to various methods to interpret ‘runaway ads’. See thewebsitewith resources about the workshops.
Fall 2019 public workshops to transcribe runaway ads. Read morehere.
“Mining the Mercury: Introducing The Runaway Slaves Digital Collection” (in partnership with the Barbados Archives and the Early Caribbean Digital Archive, Northeastern University, May 2019).
Presentation at the “Careers in History, Heritage and Beyond” event (UWI Department of History and Philosophy, April 11, 2019).
“Runaway Slave Ads as Sources for Genealogical Research” (Archives, April 13, 2019).
TimelineJS Digital Humanities Workshop (UWI, February 1, 2019)
Exploring Buried Pasts: Applying Ground-Penetrating Radar Technologies in Barbados (Synagogue Historic District, December 18, 2018)
“Digitizing for Access: Promoting the Use of Our Collections” (Workshop at the National Library Service, October 30, 2018)
Archival Arrangement and Description workshop (Workshop at the UWI Sidney Martin Library, April 6, 2018)
