Eric Williams collection now in virtual version
A replica of Dr Williams Office from the Prime Minister s residence is housed in the collection. -
March 2021 marked the 40th anniversary of the passing of this country’s first Prime Minister, Dr Eric Eustace Williams.
It also marked the 23rd anniversary of the inauguration of the Eric Williams Memorial Collection Research Library, Archives and Museum by former US secretary of state Colin Powell at UWI s St Augustine campus.
A year after its inauguration, the collection was named to Unesco’s prestigious Memory of the World Register.
The collection is housed at the campus’s Alma Jordan Library and consists of Williams s library and archives. It is available for consultation by researchers and amply reflects its owner’s eclectic interests, comprising some 7,000 volumes, as well as correspondence, speeches, manuscripts, historical writings, research notes, conference documents and a miscellany of reports. The museum contains
Joseph Rowntree Foundation has appointed three directors to join its chief executive officer Paul Kissack. Graeme Cooke will lead the evidence, economics, and policy teams to better understand the causes and nature of poverty across the UK and develop policy solutions. He is currently director of inclusive growth at the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, where he is responsible for regeneration, housing, planning, economic development, employment, energy, and environment. Sophia Parker will lead a major new programme of work, to grow radical new approaches to tackling poverty, working with partners and people with lived experience of poverty. Sophia has just stepped down as CEO of Little Village, the London-based charity she founded in 2016 that works to tackle child poverty.