Dr Adrian Browne
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Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery)
About
Adrian’s role is part of the Partnership for Transatlantic Slavery Scholarship, Archiving and Global Exchange (PASSAGE). Funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation, PASSAGE sits within Collections Research, under the Research, Grants and Academic Engagement (RGAE) department at The National Archives.
His work on PASSAGE is a cataloguing enhancement project, focusing primarily on an unsorted, miscellaneous collection known as the Detached Papers, a key subseries for the study of transatlantic slavery from the 1750s to the 1820s.
His research background is in colonial and postcolonial histories and he has a growing interest in histories of government archival practice.
Articles
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Blog post
Remembering Slavery: Reflections from the PASSAGE project
In this blog post, the PASSAGE team reflect on some of the histories of enslavement that have surfaced through their research.
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Blog post
Cataloguing transatlantic slavery records: an archival history
Cataloguer Adrian Browne traces the custodial history of the Detached Papers, investigating the legacies of Victorian-era recordkeeping.