A look back on time spent at the EAC
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,…
Ready to share your story on @WeAreXpats?
Published: January 8th 2020
We love to discover and share stories from expats, expats-turned-immigrants, adult TCKs, or who those have repatriated. For the most part, this involves exploring stories from the past and bringing these often forgotten voices back to life. But did you know that we have a project that documents digital expat…
Tea with National Socialists
Published: December 10th 2019
Simon Taylor is a graduate student of Heritage Studies at the University of Amsterdam and recently finished a six-month internship with the Expatriate Archive Centre. His primary task was to help process the FAWCO collection; the following article is a product of his first-hand experience with the material. Tea…
Language schools and the persistence of boundaries inside the expatriate community
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…
