Expatriate Archive Centre

Published: 07 June 2011 Modified: 10 June 2011

The Expatriate Archive Centre has a unique collection of letters, diaries, photographs and films documenting the social history of expatriate life.

The Expatriate Archive’s purpose is to collect, preserve, promote, and make available to the public and researchers a collection of primary source materials documenting the social history of expatriate life. It aims to give a voice to the memories and experiences of expatriates of all nationalities, and to establish a research resource for historians worldwide.

It collects journals, letters, diaries and memoirs, oral histories and photographs – in fact, almost any document from the past detailing the lives and experiences of people living away from their home country.

The collection is kept in a climate controlled room to safeguard the quality of the documents, visual and recorded material. Part of the collection is stored in a digital archive only.