The UWI Mona Library provides research access to the collection of distinguished West Indian scholar, Prof. Elsa Vesta Goveia. The collection is available through the West Indies and Special Collections (WISC) of the Library. It provides insight into the research she undertook on West Indies Federation and featured articles and handwritten notes on her varying interests notably West Indian history. The Goveia papers also include her correspondence with bodies such as The Jamaican Historical Society, as well as academics and political activists such as Walter Rodney, Errol Hill and others. Researchers may also peruse the lecture, presentation and research notes of Prof. Goveia available in the collection.
The P.J. Patterson Collection comprises approximately 35,322 documents, including; correspondence, minutes, cabinet submissions, published and unpublished materials, reports, speeches and newspaper clippings. These materials were largely generated during Mr. Patterson’s tenure as prime minister of Jamaica (1992- 2006). This digital repository at Mona currently represents the Speeches given by Mr. Patterson.
This collection represents a selection of the scholarship of Professor Rupert Lewis. These works include: A Tribute to those women who managed to give their children African names, thus helping us, their decendents to know their origins; Pan-Africanism - Ethical Challenges and Learning to Blow the Abeng: A Critical Look at Anti-establishment Movements of the 1960s and 1970s.
Ambassador Dudley Joseph Thompson (1917 – 2012) was a politician, diplomat and Pan-Africanist famed for his work in the trial of Kenyan nationalist Jomo Kenyatta which brought the political situation in Kenya under the international spotlight. The papers of Dudley Thompson were donated to The UWI Mona in 2018 and is housed at the Mona Library. With content covering the late 1940s through to 2012, researchers can access speeches, correspondence and interviews among other material with Thompson and political leaders such as Nelson Mandela and Michael Manley.
Spotlight
The West Indian Sportsman was a magazine, published between the 1950s and 1970s. Edited and published by Alva Ramsay, the West Indian Sportsman was printed by the Gleaner Company. The magazine was known for its riveting discussions about the prospects of horse racing, boxing, football, track and field, athletics, skateboarding and a myriad of other sports. The content of the West Indian Sportsman largely featured contenders across the English-speaking Caribbean. The magazine’s content was quite diverse, not only did it make its own “Sportsman” and “Horse” of the year predictions, it occasionally ventured into other areas with articles on music such as Jamaican Ska.
Edward Philip George Seaga was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica serving from 1980 to 1989 and was Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party from 1974 to 2005. He served as Leader of the Opposition from 1974 to 1980 and again from 1989 until January 2005. His retirement from political life marked the end of Jamaica's founding generation in active politics; he was the last serving politician to have entered public life before Independence. Mr. Seaga also played a major role in the development of the Jamaican music industry, as a record producer and record company owner.
The Edward Seaga Papers include documents, books, scrapbooks, photographs and other memorabilia accumulated during his years in public service. The Edward Seaga Papers are in the process of being digitized and are being made accessible via the Library's Search and Discovery platform UWILINC. To date over 550 files of correspondence, reports and policy documents are accessible both in print and in digital format. Scrapbooks of press reports about Jamaica collected from newspapers worldwide during the period when Mr. Seaga was Prime Minister are also being made accessible.
This document features the letters written to the family of William Titford and to his friends from Spanish Town, Jamaica, British West Indies between 1802 and 1807. Fifty-four letters are transcribe with some accompanied by notes indicating the location of the original letters.
This collection is a multicultural one with an emphasis on Caribbean subjects collected over time by Dr. Cherrell Shelley-Robinson. The papers cover a wide range of topics relating to children and young adult literature, some of which include Indigenous children’s literature, Publishing in the Caribbean, Books and reading in Jamaica, Caribbean text books for children, Gender balance in children’s literature, Sexism in children’s books, Racism, Censorship, Caribbean poems and Reviews. The format is varied and includes correspondence; magazines; press clippings; conference papers; published and unpublished articles by different authors, as well as, photocopies of Dr. Shelley-Robinson’s published research papers, among others.
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