Eccles Institute events

The Eccles Institute builds, curates and preserves the Library’s Americas and Oceania collections. We run a lively and wide-ranging events programme that inspires conversation, showcases research taking place at the Library and deepens understanding of the region.

What's on

  1. Miranda Kaufman and Sudhir Hazareesingh books.

    Heiresses and Rebels: Stories of Money, Exploitation and Resistance in Caribbean and Atlantic Slavery

    with acclaimed historians Miranda Kaufmann and Sudhir Hazareesingh.

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  2. Missing from the Map: Gender, Race and Cartography

    How have maps historically erased Indigenous people and women? And how might their presence be put back on the map?

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  3. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greet guests along the rope line at the Congressional Picnic, on the South Lawn of the White House.
    Years 12 – 13Free

    A-Level Conference: US Politics Today

    Join two former Members of the US Congress and leading academics in a lively and bipartisan discussion of major themes in American politics in this session for A-Level students.

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  4. Doctoral Open Day: Europe, Americas and Oceania

    Explore our collections covering Europe, the Americas and Oceania in this Doctoral Open Day for PhD students.

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  5. Poster from First Conference of the Black Parents Movement, 27-28 Oct 1979, held at the Keskidee Centre.

    What is the Black Archive? Reparations and Transformation

    A day of discussions interrogating the past, present, and potential future for Black archives in Britain, and the role of the archive in determining how Black Britons have been and are remembered.

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