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There’s a number of speeches from Aung San held at City Hall: Resistance Movement - Address delivered at the meeting of East and West Association held on August 29, 1945, at the City Hall of Rangoon...
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A selection of photos from Htein Win's collection of '88 photographs is now on display in Burma for the 30th anniversary of the uprising. See the article in IrrawaddyThe reference to 'an archive in...
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Eerder deze maand was ik in Londen, o.a. voor de opening van een expositie Mandela and Me in het gebouw van de British Council aldaar. Op 17 juli, de dag voor Mandela's honderste geboortedag, opent...
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Early 2018 IISH received a small collection on Burma from Patricia Herbert (London, 1943). Herbert studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), lived a number of years in Burma in...
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Nu het aantal Archivematica gebruikers en geïnteresseerden in Vlaanderen en Nederland gestaag groeit was de tijd rijp om, in navolging van de Britse en Amerikaanse gebruikersgroepen, een NL-VL...
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Vrijdag 1 juni jl. was ik op een bijeenkomst in het Academiegebouw in Leiden, waar het Afrika Studiecentrum samen met de Vrije Universiteit en de Zuid-Afrikaanse ambassade in Nederland een lezing...
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When Peter Schumacher was still correspondent in Asia he visited Cambodia in 1973 and 1974 from Hong Kong where he was based. These visits resulted in stories on the war for the Dutch progressive...
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The so called Archivematica Camp is an informal and highly informative three day conference that is organized by Artefactual – the company behind Archivematica. The aim of the camps are described as...
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Songkran or Thai New Year (April 13-15) is the most important festival/holiday in Thailand and a festival rich with traditions a.o. merit making and offering food to monks, paying reverence to elders...
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Poster from Laos, produced by the Editions du Neo Lao Haksat (Lao Patriotic Front) to celebrate the 2000th U.S. plane shot down over Laos, in the period from 1964 until 1971.An interesting feat in...
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