Archival Highlights
ARCHIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The “ArchLabour Archival Highlights” constitutes an open initiative of the ArchLabour research project (ERC grant ref: 101096606). The objective is to foster a wider debate on contemporary records (1875-1975) and provide an in-depth exploration of the labour force in colonial and postcolonial studies. If you have a document you would like to feature in our “Archival Highlights” (a photograph, a letter, a memorandum, a report, a sound recording, a postcard, a newspaper clip, a drawing, a video, or other), share it with us!

The concession granted to Sir Robert Williams (1903) was met with suspicion due to the perceived “surrender” of 1,400 km of valuable territory under an agreement – the Williams Contract. That’s why during the Luso-British conflict over Africa’s inland […]

The infrastructure was inaugurated in June 1968, marking a significant milestone in the region’s development – for instances on water supply (MBIT, 1968:1, 5) a solution designed by Manuel Neto Valente after research in Mindelo, Cape Verde […]

To mention dieseI-hydraulic locomotives, in the Portuguese colonial railway case, implies to mention the Henschel-Werke company. The company was originally founded in 1810 under the name Henschel & Son, and was located in Kassel, Germany […]