2008/9/11 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/9/11 Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:
Depends.
Archives from Britian's imperial days have the potential to
reduce systemic bias.
Which bias? The record keepers of the British Empire weren't the most
neutral bunch...
No but at least there are records (mostly obviously some have been
lost or deliberately destroyed). There are larger areas of the world
were the simply are no other 19th centry sources. India is one example
there are a lot of Victorian documents and drawings relating to areas
of india which we have almost no coverage of.
We should organise a field trip to the British Library. Half a dozen
Wikipedians, some readers passes and a long list of requests for
images and references and we could have a very productive day.