Genre: invitations / Subject: Books - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Brochure explaining the production of the book John Wesley 300 as a fund-raising project.
Date:: September 24, 2003
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Invitation to the book launch of Slave Society in the City: Bridgetown, Barbados 1680-1834 by Dr. Pedro L.V. Welch, held at the Arts Lecture Theatre University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. This book seeks to explain the way slave societies functioned in the Caribbean. The book provides a comparison between urban and rural slave societies, an analysis of several areas of urban social formation, demographic issues, trade and commerce, gender issues, and social and economic issues in the free coloured communities.
Date:: September 2, 2003
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Card accompanying a copy of the book Confronting Power, Theorizing Gender, gifted to the Archives Department by the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies Campus. This book explores masculinity as a gender construct and its manifestation in the Caribbean. It explores the interaction of power and sexuality in the creation of masculine identities in the Caribbean region.
Date:: February 28, 2004
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Program for the launch of the book Barbados First: The Years of Change by Karl Watson.
Date:: 2003
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Invitation to the launch of White Rebel: the Life & Times of TT Lewis by Gary Lewis. Event held at the Lecture Theatre 2 New teaching Complex , the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Gary Lewis was the great nephew of Atholl Edwin Seymour (T.T.) Lewis. His book covers the life of T.T. Lewis, a white working class Barbadian who sought to better the conditions of all working class Barbadians. T.T. Lewis was elected to the Barbados Parliament in 1942 as an independent and later served under the Barbados Labour Party from 1948-1955.
Date:: September 1, 1999
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Invitation from the Nation Publishing Co. Ltd for the launching of the book I Speak for the People: The Memoirs of Wynter Crawford held at the Grande Salle, Central Bank Barbados. Wynter Crawford (1910-1993) was the publisher and editor of the "Barbados Observer" newspaper, but was more known for his involvement in politics. He was the founder and leader of the West Indies National Congress Party and spent 26 years in Parliament. The memoirs offers insight to the personality of Crawford and information on his career.
Date:: April 14, 2003
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Invitation from the Minister of Home Affairs, Hon. Mia Amor Mottley, to the formal launch of Old Barbados, a coffee table book by the Barbados Government Information Service. Event held at Tyrol Cot, Spooners Hill, St. Michael.
Date:: December 4, 2002
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Invitation to the launch of the audio cassette "Barbadian Short Stories," held on 20 July 1993 at the Courtyard of the Island Inn Hotel, Aquatic Gap. "Alfred Pragnell reads Timothy Callender and recalls Joe Tudor." Alfred Pragnell is a well known story-teller who has been telling stories on Barbadian radio stations from the 1950s. He has also been involved in the field of broadcasting and acting.
Date:: July 20, 1993
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Invitation by Elizabeth Watson (UWI Campus Librarian) and Stedson Wiltshire in collaboration with the National Cultural Foundation to the launch of "Mr. Ragga Ragga," an annotated discography of the musical works of Red Plastic Bag and "The Red Collection Vols. 1 & 2." The event was held at the Arts Lecture Theatre, UWI. Stedson Wiltshire, also known as Red Plastic Bag or Mr. Ragga Ragga, is a well known calypsonian in Barbados who has won the Barbados calypso monarch competition (known as Pic o' de Crop Competition) numerous times. Wilthshire combined the sounds of reggae and soca music to form a new Caribbean genre of music known as ragga soca.
Date:: November 19, 2005
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Invitation to and programme of events for "A Review of Rare Books from the Mark Hunte Collection" held on 15 May, 1991 at the Barbados Historical Museum and Historical Society.
Date:: May 15, 1991
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

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