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Description:: Map to the University of the West Indies for 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." 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
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Date:: June 3, 1976
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Louis Dupree and Nancy Dupree Collection
Modern Endangered Archives Program

Description:: Program of events for the launching of the Barbados branch held on 20 October 1995.
Date:: October 20, 1995
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
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Description:: Programme of events for the launch of Voices 1: An Anthology of Barbadian Writing held on 29 November 1997 at Queen's Park Gallery.
Date:: November 29, 1997
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
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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
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Date:: 1983
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Louis Dupree and Nancy Dupree Collection
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Description:: Program for 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 Nationl Congress Party and spent 26 years in Parliament. The memoirs offer insight to the personality of Crawford and information on his career.
Date:: April 14, 2003
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
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Description:: Launch of two books: Roderick A. McDonald's (ed.) West Indies Accounts: Essays on the History of the British Caribbean and the Atlantic Economy in Honour of Richard Sheridan & Hilary McD. Beckles' (ed.) Inside Slavery: Process and Legacy in the Caribbean Experience. Event held at UWI.
Date:: Between 1996 and 1997
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
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Description:: Invitation for Ms. Christine Roachford by Ian Randle Publishers for the celebration of the publication of When Ground Doves Fly by Esther Phillips. Event held at the Grande Salle of Barbados Central Bank. Esther Phillips is a literary icon in Barbados who became the island's first ever poet laureate. When Ground Doves Fly is her first full length collection of poems.
Date:: April 11, 2003
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
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Description:: Program of event for the launch of the book Old Barbados.
Date:: December 4, 2002
Resource Type:: text
Collection:: Barbados Ephemera Collection
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