Published: February 12th 2020
Christian Slape was a volunteer at the Expatriate Archive Centre from September 2019 to February 2020. The following is his reflection of the months spent doing research on expat life for our organisation’s social media. By Christian Slape By my nature, I love to know my city’s surroundings,…
Published: November 5th 2019
Mathilde Bernard was an intern at the Expatriate Archive Centre from February through April 2019. She recently earned her master’s degree from Erasmus University of Rotterdam in Global History and International Relations. This is her second in a series of articles covering Dutch expatriates living in mid-19th-century Nigeria; read the…
Published: October 23rd 2019
A researcher who has utilised the EAC archives is searching for interviewees for his thesis. David Tallon’s oral history project, titled Oil and Conflict in Nigeria, 1940-2010, investigates all aspects of oil in Nigeria, prioritising the tragic conflict that has for so long been associated with oil. David is looking…
Published: October 22nd 2019
The Expatriate Archive Centre (EAC) is the new secretariat for the European Ego-Documents Archives and Collection Network. One of our tasks as secretariat is to maintain the network’s website (www.edac-eu.eu). We are seeking a volunteer for a special project of creating a new version of its website. A new logo…
Published: September 17th 2019
The EAC library welcomes books about any topic related to expatriate life, including self-published novels. Parsley & Coriander, also published in Italian titled as Prezzemolo & Cilantro, is one of our newer additions. EAC volunteer Kirsten Waller reviews. By Kirsten Waller Antonella Moretti’s book Parsley and Coriander follows the…
