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Streaming video access to the archives the Banyan Production company of Trinidad and Tobago, the first producer of original television in the Caribbean. Material include interviews with writers and cultural figures, documentaries, and theater, music, and dance performances.
International collections of newspapers, journals, government and legal documents, pamphlets, technical reports and other primary source materials.
Publication coverage: 1624-1870
Colonial Caribbean covers the history of the various territories under British colonial governance from 1624 to 1870. It includes administrative documentation, trade and shipping records, minutes of council meetings, as well as details of plantation life, colonial settlement, imperial rivalries across the region, and the growing concern of absentee landlords.Confidential Print: Africa 1834-1966
Publication coverage: 1834-1966
Official British government correspondence concerning Africa from the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office between 1834 and 1966.