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hello

I'm daniel and I'm the politics curator working at the Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK

I do engagement work with archives & working towards archivist registration with ARA

I like libraries, archives, psychoanalysis, italian, lacan, & words

#archives #libraries #curator #GLAM #history #politics #SouthAsia #Ambedkar #activism #socialism #peace #OralHistories #Lansbury #italiano #socialism #heritage #psychoanalysis #ARA #LSE #UCU 🌈

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Been researching the 43 Group today; a London-based militant anti-fascist organisation, founded in March 1946 by 43 Jewish ex-servicemen to combat fascist and anti-semitic organisations.

We have some of their papers that include alphabetical lists and car registration plate numbers of suspected fascists, and a few leaflets and agendas of meetings.

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Aims and objectives of the 43 Group are listed, along with three different types of membership (active, reserve, honorary).
Agenda for the Annual General Meeting, with "the 32 group of ex-servicemen" headed paper.
The front cover of a small pamphlet about the forty-three group of ex-servicemen. Shows a photograph of members of the 43 Group "in strong roce at their protest meeting outside the Kensington Town Hall" in 1949

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Found a riddle in a collection of 1826 Northumberland election leaflets. Any ideas?

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Can anyone recommend any particularly good research / articles that explain why sending interview candidates the questions you are going to ask them in advance of the interview is a good thing to do? Particularly in higher education (but anywhere will do)? Thanks!

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@LizEllisPhD @academicchatter thanks, and I certainly agree with you. Next step for me is to convince HR...

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@academicchatter Trying to pursue this & HR are citing potential candidates use of AI as a reason to not do this (!) 🙄

  1. AI isn't going to be able to write what somebody's experience is (it might extract it from their CV perhaps, but that would be fine since the experience is real and exists.

  2. If the concern is that AI might help them lie / make up answers to the questions, well - isn't that also a problem that could happen without AI?

Very baffling.

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for no reason at all, did a bit of research into the body of a dead man found floating in a pond in August in Worcestershire, 113 years ago.

(long) thread below: 👇

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@wennefer @histodons ah thanks glad it was of interest! :)

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Is this signature written by hand directly onto the book, or is it a printed version of a handwritten signature? I want it to be the former, but my colleague thinks it's the latter.

It's of Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature

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@overholt @histodons Thanks! It's a small pamphlet we have in our archives and special collections so just the one copy. It's "Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose's Memorial Address "written by Dr. Rabindranath Tagore, Nov 1938

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@overholt @histodons Sorry just saw your final question. It's not a compilation, it's a four page document authored by Tagor and published by the Bose Institute.

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@overholt @histodons Thank you that's very helpful, I will certainly get in touch with them.

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@prabirkc @histodons thank you for your reply. Somebody on here replied to say they found a copy at New York public library, so I have contacted them to see if they can send me a photograph to compare the signature. It certainly looks different to the signatures that you found...It was published in 1938 and is a memorial address to Jagadish Chandra

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@Vibracobra23 @histodons Thanks! I haven't but will see if I can find out lurking about in the library somewhere...

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I did a little roundup of some of the traces of Ambedkar we find at LSE, one of the (many) places he got a degree from.

The documents referred to can be found online here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/collection-highlights/traces-of-south-asia

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Who is this man?

I've recently been cataloguing the papers of Frank Wise, a Labour MP, ILP member, and civil servant who worked as Director of the Soviet Union's Trade Office Centrosoyuz in the 1920s.

Amongst his papers is this photograph of an unidentified man (it isn't Frank!)

Any ideas?

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@frankingermany @sslh @histodons oh that's fantastic thanks so much! I'm sure you're right

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Pictured here from the LSE Library archives is Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the first President of Bangladesh, meeting Peter Shore (Labour MP) at Heathrow Airport in 1973. They met on several occasions in due course, and Shore was very fond of him.


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