ST. KITTS AND NEVIS NATIONAL ARCHIVES LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE
Basseterre, St. Kitts, May 25, 2018 (SKNIS): History is constantly being rewritten and must no longer be seen as a static piece of information, not only because new information is showing up, but there are also different points of view. For this reason it was imperative that a new website be created for the St. Kitts and Nevis National Archives, says its director, Victoria O’Flaherty. Speaking at the launching ceremony at Government House, on May 25, […]
Conservation of the Cleghorn Journals
(The National Archives of St. Kitts & Nevis) May 18, 2018: The National Archives has just completed a project of conservation on the Cleghorn Journals. The Cleghorn Journals are a set of six journals produced in 1835 and 1836 by Ralph Cleghorn, a Stipendiary Magistrate, who was born in St. Kitts and educated in England. St. Kitts is unique in the Caribbean in that it has a collection of 23 of these journals produced by […]
EMANCIPATION ACT GOES ON DISPLAY AT NATIONAL MUSEUM
(The St. Christopher National Trust) February 20, 2018: The original, handwritten Act for the Abolition of Slavery – The Emancipation Act – is now on exhibit at the National Museum. The Exhibition, hosted in collaboration with the National Archives, opened with a media event on Friday, February 16th. The new exhibit is being mounted as part of History and Heritage Month, which this year has as its theme, “History and Heritage: A Conduit to “Full” […]
Two Hundred Year Old Register of Slaves to go on Exhibit at National Museum
(St. Christopher National Trust) St. Kitts and Nevis – November 29, 2017: One of the country’s most important surviving documents from the 19th century will go on public exhibit for the first time this weekend at the National Museum. The St. Christopher National Trust is collaborating with the National Archives to mount the limited-time exhibition of the St. Christopher Original Register of Slaves. The Exhibit opens on Saturday December 2nd and runs until Sunday January 8th. The Slave […]