The Carnival Archive and Study Resource, Middlesex University

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): GB 1383 Carnival

Title: The Carnival Archive and Study Resource, Middlesex University

Date(s): 1956 - 1999

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: c.12 books and publications; 19 files; 13 albums

CONTEXT AREA

Name of creator(s): A. R. Tompsett

Administrative/Biographical history: The Carnival Resource has been collected by Ruth Tompsett, Principal Lecturer, for use by students studying Carnival on the BA in Performing Arts at Middlesex University.

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer:

CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: Collection of publications, documentation and archive material relating to Caribbean Carnival, predominantly focussing on carnival in Trinidad and at London's Notting Hill, and dating from 1956 to 1999. The collection includes books, press cuttings, magazines and journals, extracted articles, programmes from Carnival at Notting Hill and in Trinidad and Tobago, programmes from carnival theatre performances, press releases, newsletters of The Association for a Peoples' Carnival, photographic documentation of Caribbean and diasporic carnivals, costume designs, video recordings, audio recordings of carnival music and interviews with key practitioners, and slides of carnivals, mask making and masquerades.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals: Expected

System of arrangement: The collection is arranged into books; magazine publications and files; press coverage and photographic documentation. The material is arranged into files. The collection is held at the Trent Park Campus Library, Middlesex University, and privately by A R Tompsett.

CONDITIONS OF ACCESS AND USE AREA

Conditions governing access: Members of the public wishing to view the collection should contact Ruth Tompsett by phone, letter or e-mail (020 8411 5664; r.tompsett@mdx.ac.uk), so that the Library can be advised of the visit and material made available.

Conditions governing reproduction: Reproduction of materials is at the discretion of the Library.

Language/scripts of material: English

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids: Brief file lists available.

ALLIED MATERIALS AREA

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related units of description: There are numerous relevant publications in the ordinary stock of the Library, Trent Park (Middlesex University).

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

Recorder's note:

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean

Specific group:

Subjects

Ethnic groups

Diaspora studies

African-Caribbean peoples

Caribbean diaspora

Carnival arts

Personal/Corporate names

Tompsett, A. Ruth, fl. 2001

Association for a Peoples' Carnival

Notting Hill Carnival

Places

Caribbean

Trinidad and Tobago

Notting Hill, London, United Kingdom