by Julie Carrington | Apr 7, 2022 | Top Stories
Chief Archivist, Ingrid Thompson, receives a copy of the publication Notes of a Native Governor General: The Memoirs of Sir Elliot Fitzroy Belgrave, from author Alwin Adams recently. (J. Carrington/BGIS) A memoir chronicling the life of former Governor General Sir...
by Public Relations | Dec 6, 2021 | Top Stories
(NCF) Snippets of Our Past: On the Heels of Republicanism, a special exhibition highlighting significant moments of Barbados’ social and political evolution to Republican status, has been launched into the metaverse. Archival records depicting the island’s complex...
by Julie Carrington | Dec 3, 2021 | Top Stories
https://youtu.be/mhJRPOMG6_w?t=101 Press conference on the creation of the Barbados Heritage District featuring Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley. (PMO) The digitisation of millions of pages of historical documents and records, dating as far back as 1635 in the Archives...
by Paula Harper-Grant | Mar 13, 2019 | Top Stories
The Department of Archives has partnered with the Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) at Northeastern University to create the Barbados Runaway Slaves Digital Collection. The collection is based on runaway advertisements in the recently digitized newspaper, The...