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Newly accessible communist archives in Britain and Moscow have
given us a fuller and richer picture of the membership of the
British Communist Party than of any other British political party,
and indeed of most other communist parties. This project presents
the fullest and most authoritative details of the Communist Party
in Britain yet assembled. It tracks down British communists: who
they were, where they came from, how their allegiances were forged
and sustained, how communist identities were created and dissolved,
the diverse roles party members played in British society. A truly
collaborative project led by academics with sustained research
experience, this book will not simply deepen our understanding of
one of the key social movements of the twentieth century, it will
provide a social history of left-wing activism in Britain, from the
social ferment and grassroots militancy of the interwar period to
the cultural politics and 'designer socialism' of the 1980s.
Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice expands the burgeoning
literature on archival social justice and impact. Illuminating how
diverse factors shape the relationship between archives,
recordkeeping systems, and recordkeepers, this book depicts
struggles for different social justice objectives. Discussions and
debates about social justice are playing out across many
disciplines, fields of practice, societal sectors, and governments,
and yet one dimension cross-cutting these actors and engagement
spaces has remained unexplored: the role of recordkeeping and
archiving. To clarify and elaborate this connection, this volume
provides a rigorous account of the engagement of archives and
records-and their keepers-in struggles for social justice. Drawing
upon multidisciplinary praxis and scholarship, contributors to the
volume examine social justice from historical and contemporary
perspectives and promote impact methodologies that align with
culturally responsive, democratic, Indigenous, and transformative
assessment. Underscoring the multiplicity of transformative social
justice impacts influenced by recordmaking, recordkeeping, and
archiving, the book presents nine case studies from around the
world that link the past to the present and offer pathways towards
a more just future. Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice
will be an essential reading for researchers and students engaged
in the study of archives, truth and reconciliation processes,
social justice, and human rights. It should also be of great
interest to archivists, records managers, and information
professionals.
This book addresses the application of computing to cultural
heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed
around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the
Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and
imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However,
we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or
its disciplinary development. The authors make a first contribution
towards remedying this by uncovering, documenting, and analysing a
number of the social, intellectual and creative processes that
helped to shape this research from the 1950s until the present day.
By taking an oral history approach, this book explores questions
like, among others, researchers' earliest memories of encountering
computers and the factors that subsequently prompted them to use
the computer in Humanities research. Computation and the Humanities
will be an essential read for cultural and computing historians,
digital humanists and those interested in developments like the
digitisation of cultural heritage and artefacts. This book is open
access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license
The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act has been broadly welcomed
by contemporary British historians as a means of increasing access
to public records within the thirty-year rule. But the benefits of
this formal commitment to open government are untested, and
experiences in other countries with FOI or Access to Information
legislation have raised a number of shared problems and
concerns.
These problems are common among countries with FOI legislation.
But there has been very little discussion among historians and
archivists internationally about dealing with these issues as well
as reflecting on the benefits of access legislation.
This volume will be the first to compare and reflect upon both
the successes and difficulties of FOI across the world. Written by
an international mixture of senior archivists and historians, it
will appeal across the disciplines of history and archive
studies.
Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice expands the burgeoning
literature on archival social justice and impact. Illuminating how
diverse factors shape the relationship between archives,
recordkeeping systems, and recordkeepers, this book depicts
struggles for different social justice objectives. Discussions and
debates about social justice are playing out across many
disciplines, fields of practice, societal sectors, and governments,
and yet one dimension cross-cutting these actors and engagement
spaces has remained unexplored: the role of recordkeeping and
archiving. To clarify and elaborate this connection, this volume
provides a rigorous account of the engagement of archives and
records-and their keepers-in struggles for social justice. Drawing
upon multidisciplinary praxis and scholarship, contributors to the
volume examine social justice from historical and contemporary
perspectives and promote impact methodologies that align with
culturally responsive, democratic, Indigenous, and transformative
assessment. Underscoring the multiplicity of transformative social
justice impacts influenced by recordmaking, recordkeeping, and
archiving, the book presents nine case studies from around the
world that link the past to the present and offer pathways towards
a more just future. Archives, Recordkeeping, and Social Justice
will be an essential reading for researchers and students engaged
in the study of archives, truth and reconciliation processes,
social justice, and human rights. It should also be of great
interest to archivists, records managers, and information
professionals.
This book addresses the application of computing to cultural
heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed
around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the
Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and
imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However,
we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or
its disciplinary development. The authors make a first contribution
towards remedying this by uncovering, documenting, and analysing a
number of the social, intellectual and creative processes that
helped to shape this research from the 1950s until the present day.
By taking an oral history approach, this book explores questions
like, among others, researchers' earliest memories of encountering
computers and the factors that subsequently prompted them to use
the computer in Humanities research. Computation and the Humanities
will be an essential read for cultural and computing historians,
digital humanists and those interested in developments like the
digitisation of cultural heritage and artefacts. This book is open
access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license
This volume brings Dig Where You Stand, Sven Lindqvist's classic
text on history, power and politics, to English-speaking audiences
for the first time. First published in 1978, Dig Where You
Stand is a rallying cry for workers to become researchers, to
follow the money, take on the role as experts on their job, and
"dig" out its hidden histories in order to take a vital step
towards social and economic transformation. A how-to guide that
inspired an entire movement, it makes the case that everyone
– not just academics – can learn how to critically and
rigorously explore history, especially their own history, and in
doing so find a blueprint for how to transform society for the
better. In a world where the balance of power is overwhelmingly
stacked against the working-class, Dig Where You Stand's
manifesto for the empowerment of workers through self-education,
historical research and political solidarity is as important
and relevant today as it was in 1978.
This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement,
expanding the definition of community archives to include sites
such as historical societies, social movement organisations and
community centres. It also explores new definitions of what
community archives might encompass, particularly in relation to
disciplines outside the archives. Over ten years have passed since
the first volume of Community Archives, and inspired by continued
research as well as by the formal recognition of community archives
in the UK, the community archives movement has become an important
area of research, recognition and appreciation by archivists,
archival scholars and others worldwide. Increasingly the subject of
papers and conferences, community archives are now seen as being in
the vanguard of social concerns, markers of community-based
activism, a participatory approach exemplifying the on-going
evolution of ‘professional’ archival (and heritage) practice
and integral to the ability of people to articulate and assert
their identity. Community Archives, Community Spaces reflects the
latest research and includes practical case studies on the
challenges of building and sustaining community archives. This new
book will appeal to practitioners, researchers, and academics in
the archives and records community as well as to historians and
other scholars concerned with community building and social issues.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
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pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
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rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Using Comintern archives, oral interviews and a wide range of other
sources, this collection presents a sample of some of the exciting
new work currently being produced in the field of communist
biography. Geographically, the contributions take in North America
and New Zealand as well as a range of European countries. Some
chapters focus on individuals like Clara Zetkin, William Z. Foster,
Umberto Terracini, William Gallacher or Jozsef Pogany. Others adopt
a collective approach to explore communist cultures in rural
Austrai or the Netherlands, or the impact of institutions like the
International Lenin School. There are also chapters on communist
institutional biographies, the role of general secretaries and the
significance of generations and family links.
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