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The impact case study database allows you to browse and search for impact case studies submitted to the REF 2021. Use the search and filters below to find the impact case studies you are looking for.
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Revealing the identities of enslaved Africans through the preservation of rare and endangered manuscripts

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Grant funding

Grant number Value of grant
Nineteenth-Century Documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives’ (EAP443) £38,871
Preserving nineteenth-century records in the Sierra Leone Public Archives’, (EAP782) £25,586
Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery (DATAS) £34,077
Georgian Papers Fellowship £2,900
International conference on Liberated Africans at York University Toronto £13,285
Short-Term Travel Fellowship £2,175