Transcription of Diana Powell-Cotton's 1937 Angola diary

Item

Title

Transcription of Diana Powell-Cotton's 1937 Angola diary

Creator

Diana Powell-Cotton
Emma Caitlin Watson

Description

A transcript of the final section of Diana Powell-Cotton’s 1937 Angola diary from the original handwritten copy. The transcription was completed by Emma Caitlin Watson and edited by James Baker and Nicola Stylianou.

Publisher

Making African Connections

Contributor

Transcription of the Diana Powell-Cotton's 1937 Angola diary was part of the project ‘Moments of exchange in colonial collections: the 1937 Diana Powell-Cotton Angola diaries and their legacy' funded by the University of Sussex Junior Research Associate (JRA) Scheme.
University of Sussex Junior Research Associate (JRA) Scheme
James Baker
Nicola Stylianou

Date

July-August 2019

Type

Text

Format

.pdf

Identifier

2.9.6

Source

Diana Powell-Cotton
The Powell-Cotton Museum

Language

English

Relation

Blog Post: Emma Caitlin Watson, "Reconsidering the Narrative: Diana Powell-Cotton’s 1937 diary", 3 September 2019
Moments of Exchange in Colonial Collections: the 1937 Diana Powell-Cotton Angola diary and its legacy

Space/Place

1937
Angola
Africa

Rights

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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PCM archival collections

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