#SAA11, Thursday 25th August

Day 1 Proper of the conference began with acknowledgements to the organisers, some kind of raffle draw and then a plenary address by an American radio journalist.  Altogether this conference has a celebratory feel to it – fitting since this is SAA’s 75th Anniversary year, but very different in tone from the UK conferences where [...]

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Discovering UK Archives (#ukad and other things)

A round-up and some brief reflections on a number of different events and presentations I’ve attended recently: Many of this term’s Archives and Society seminars at the Institute of Historical Research have been been on particularly pertinent subjects for me, and rather gratifyingly have attracted bumper audiences (we ran out of chairs at the last [...]

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Guest Post on UKOLN Cultural Heritage Blog

Today I have a guest post about my research on UKOLN‘s Cultural Heritage Blog.

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Digital Delights for October

A round-up of a few pieces of digital goodness to cheer up a damp and dark start to October: What looks like a bumper new issue of the Journal of the Society of Archivists (shouldn’t it be getting a new name?) is published today.  It has an oral history theme, but actually it was the [...]

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