The discovery of a simple mislabelling of a painting in the British Library has led to a series of novel insights for one early career researcher
We all dream of having an Indiana Jones moment,when days, months and years of painstaking archival research leads to the discovery of an artefact of priceless cultural significance. A few months into my research project on Caribbean literature, and I made a surprising discovery. I realised that a watercolour of the Caribbean in the archives of the British Library had been incorrectly recorded. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com