Archives

Andrew Prescott is Professor of Digital Humanities in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. He trained as a medieval historian and was a Curator in the Department of Manuscripts of the British Library between 1979 and 2000, where he was the principal curatorial contact for Kevin Kiernan's Electronic Beowulf. Professor Prescott was Theme Leader Fellow for the AHRC strategic theme of Digital Transformations 2012-2019. He has also worked in libraries, archives, and digital humanities units at the University of Sheffield, King's College London, and the University of Wales Lampeter.Alison Wiggins is Reader in English Language and Manuscripts in the School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. She has led and collaborated on a range of archive-based digital projects, at the AHRC Centre for Editing Lives and Letters between 2002 and 2006, and then at Glasgow as PI for The Letters of Bess of Hardwick (AHRC 2009-12), as Leadership Fellow for Archives and Writing Lives (AHRC 2017-19), and currently as part of the research team analyzing Adam Smith's Library (Templeton Foundation 2022-24). Dr Wiggins has also developed research and engagement projects with The National Trust, Chatsworth House Archives, The National Archives, The Bodleian Library, and the National Library of Scotland.

This volume is an asset to the study of archives, providing an important update for both the present and the recent past.

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsNotes on Editorial PolicyNotes on ContributorsForeword by Carolyn SteedmanIntroduction by Andrew Prescott and Alison WigginsI. Conceptions1: Michelle Caswell: 'The Archive' is Not An Archives: Acknowledging the Intellectual Contribution of Archival Studies2: Louise Craven: Where and What are the Boundaries of the Archive?3: Hariz Halilovich and Anne J. Gilliland: Digitality and Reconfiguring Global Archive(s) of Forced Migration4: James Lowry: The Record as Command5: Andrew Hoskins: New Memory and The Archive6: Niamh Moore: Response to ConceptionsII. Frameworks7: Andrew Prescott: Appraisal and Original Order: The Power Structures of the Archive8: Anna Sexton: Archival Education and Professionalism9: Lisa Gitelman: Metadata10: Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert: Networks11: Michael Moss and David Thomas: Authenticating and Evaluating Evidence12: Victoria Van Hyning and Heather Wolfe: More Content, Less Context: Rethinking Access13: Janet Foster: Response to FrameworksIII. Materialities14: Alison Wiggins: The Materiality of Written Textual Forms15: Simon Popple: Sound and Vision: The Audio-Visual Archive16: Catherine Richardson: Doors Into the Archives: Material Objects and Document Collections17: Jane Birkin: Archives, Art, and the Performativity of Practice18: Eirini Goudarouli: Digital Innovation and Archival Thinking19: Laura Mandell: Response to MaterialitiesIV. Encounters & Evolution20: Eric Ketelaar: The Agency of Archivers21: Paul Lihoma: State Power and the Shaping of Archives in Malawi22: Paul Strohm: Archival Impulses and the Gunpowder Plot23: Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman: Accidentally on Purpose: Denying Any Responsibility for the Accidental Archive24: Julie A. Fisher: Response to Encounters & EvolutionV. Narrators25: Karina Beras and Jarrett Martin Drake: From Repositories of Failure to Archives of Abolition26: Rachel Douglas: Writer-Editors Making the Haitian and Caribbean Archives Talk27: Sylvia Federico: Finding Women in the Archives of 138128: Norma Clarke: On Family History and Archives29: Ruth Maclennan: An Artist Unpacks the Archives30: Alan Stewart: Response to NarratorsVI. Erasures & Exclusion31: Lae'l Hughes-Watkins: America's Scrapbook: A Reckoning in the Archives32: Rebecca Kahn: Irreconcilable Archives: Queer Collections and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission33: Rebecca Abby Whiting: Destruction and Displacement: The 2003 War and the Struggle for Iraq's Records34: Edwina Ashie-Nikoi, Emmanuel Adjei, and Musah Adams: Of Bonfires, Mindsets, and Policies: The Multi-Causal Matrix of Silence in Ghanaian Public Archives35: Kirsten Weld: Response to Erasures & ExclusionAfterword by Verne HarrisIndex