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SAS Open Journals is an Open Access hosting service for social science and humanities journals produced by or in association with the School. Built with funding from the JISC, it was launched in October 2011. To see it in action, see the first journal to use the service, Amicus Curiae at http://journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus. To discuss publishing with us, contact Dr Peter Webster: peter.webster@sas.ac.uk

For further information, see the project blog at: http://sasopenjournals.blogspot.com

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Lisa Lowe

School's Visiting Fellow, 2011/12

Professor Lisa Lowe (Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego) studied European intellectual history at Stanford, and French literature and critical theory at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests are French, British, and U.S. literatures, and the topic of Asian migration within European and American modernities. She has published books on orientalism, immigration, and culture within globalisation. Professor Lowe is based at the School until June 2012 and is most closely affiliated with the Institutes for the Study of the Americas, of Historical Research and of Commonwealth Studies. She is to give two lectures: 'Vanity Fair and the Fetishism of Colonial Commodities' on 15 Feb 2012 and 'The Intimacies of Four Continents' on 15 May 2012.

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Administering the Empire, 1801-1968: A Guide to the Records of the Colonial Office in The National Archives of the UK

Mandy Banton

This important new guide is an introduction to the records of British government departments responsible for the administration of colonial affairs, and now held in The National Archives of the United Kingdom. It covers the period from about 1801 to 1966.It has been planned as a user-friendly ...