Acknowledgements -- List of illustrations -- List of recordings -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Lisbet Rousing and Peter Baldwin -- Preserving the past: creating the Endangered Archives Programme / Barry Supple -- The Endangered Archives Programme after ten years / Anthea Case -- What the Endangered Archives Programme does -- Crumb trails, threads and traces: Endangered Archives and history / Maja Kominko -- PART I. INSCRIPTIONS. 1. The "written landscape of the central Sahara: recording and digitising the Tifinagh inscriptions in the Tadrart Acacus Mountains / Stefano Biagetti, Ali Ait Kaci and Savino di Lernia -- PART II. MANUSCRIPTS. 2. Metadata and endangered archives: lessons from the Ahom manuscripts project / Stephen Morey -- 3. Unravelling Lepcha manuscripts / Heleen Plaisier -- 4. Technological aspects of the monastic manuscript collection at May Wäyni, Ethiopia / Michael Gervers and Jacek Tomaszewski -- 5. Localising Islamic knowledge: acquisition and copying of the Riyadha Mosque manuscript collection in Lamu, Kenya / Anne Bang -- 6. In the shadow of Timbuktu: the manuscripts of Djenné / Sophie Sarin -- PART III. DOCUMENTARY ARCHIVES. 7. The first Gypsy/Roma organisations, churches and newspapers / Elena Mariushakova and Veselin Popov -- 8. Sacred boundaries: parishes and the making of space in the colonial Andes / Gabriela Ramos -- 9. Researching the history of slavery in Colombia and Brazil through ecclesiastical and notarial archives / Jane Landers, Pablo Gómez, José Polo Acuña and Courtney J. Campbell -- 10. Convict labour in early colonial Northern Nigeria: a preliminary study -- Mohammed Bashir Salau -- 11. Murid Ajami sources of knowledge: the myth and the reality / Fallou Ngom -- 12. Digitisation of Islamic manuscripts and periodicals in Jerusalem and Acre / Qasem Abu Harb -- PART IV. PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVES. 13. A charlatan's album: cartes-de-visite from Bolivia, Argentina and Paraguay (1860-1880) / Irina Podgorny -- 14. Hearing images, tasting pictures: making sense of Christian mission photography in the Lushai Hills District, Northeast India (1870-1920) / Kyle Jackson -- 15. The photographs of Baluev: capturing the "socialist transformation of the Krasnoyarsk northern frontier, 1938-1939 / David Zeitlyn -- 16. Archiving a Cameroonian photographic studio -- PART V. SOUND ARCHIVES 17. Music for a revolution: the sound archives of Radio Télévision Guinée / Graeme Counsel -- 18. Conservation of the Iranian Golha radio programmes and the heritage of Persian classical poetry and music / Jane Lewisohn -- 19. The use of sound archives for the investigation, teaching and safeguarding of endangered languages in Russia / Tjeerd de Graaf and Victor Denisov -- Index.