Student queries about Notting Hill Carnival

Middlesex University, Trent Park Campus, holds information directly related to Carnival with a focus on the Notting Hill Carnival.

The collection focuses primarily on carnivals in Trinidad and London's Notting Hill. Most publications and documentation date from the last 20 years, but there are significant items which pre-date 1980.

The resource consists of:

• Books
• Press Cuttings
• Magazines and journals
• Extracted articles
• Programmes, mainly, though not exclusively, from Carnival at Notting Hilland in Trinidad and Tobago
• Programmes from carnival theatre performances
• Flyers, launch information and more
• Press releases
• Newsletters - The Association for a People’s Carnival
• Photographic documentation: Caribbean and diasporic carnivals, particularly Notting Hill
• Costume designs
• Video recordings of carnival and carnival-related topics, events and such like
• Audio recordings, mainly calypso, soca and steel band
• Audio recordings of interviews with key practitioners
• Slides packs of carnivals, mass-making, masks and masquerades

Contact the Carnival Archive Study Resource

The Carnival Resource has been, and continues to be, collected for use by students studying Carnival on the BA in performing arts.

The resource is also visited by students, academics, teachers and journalists from outside the University, from the UK as well as from mainland Europe, the Caribbean and U.S.A. Visitors to the Resource have also contributed items to the collection and such reciprocity is greatly valued.

At present much of the collection is housed somewhat informally in the Library at Trent Park as well as elsewhere on the campus. The next step is to raise the necessary funding to employ an archivist to attend to the proper preservation and cataloguing of the material.

Anyone from outside the University wishing to make use of the Carnival Archive and Study Resource is welcome to make contact with Ruth by phone, email or letter so that the library can be advised of the visit and material made available. The collection exists to be used.

For more information contact Ruth Tompsett:

• Telephone: 020 8411 5664
• Email: r.tompsett@mdx.ac.uk
• Postal Address: Middlesex University, Trent Park, Bramley Road, London, N14 4YZ

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