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'Archives have the potential to change people's lives. They are 'a
fundamental bulwark of our democracy, our culture, our community
and personal identity' - National Council of Archives. Archives and
Archivists in 20th Century England innovatively focuses on the
multifunctional reasons behind the creations of archives - they
enable the conduct of business and support accountability whilst
also meeting the demands of a democratic society's expectations for
transparency and the protection of rights. They are the raw
material of our history and memory while archivists and records
managers are the professionals responsible for ensuring that these
qualities are protected and exploited for the public good. This
volume will be of key interest to anyone working with archives.
'Archives have the potential to change people's lives. They are 'a
fundamental bulwark of our democracy, our culture, our community
and personal identity' - National Council of Archives. Archives and
Archivists in 20th Century England innovatively focuses on the
multifunctional reasons behind the creations of archives - they
enable the conduct of business and support accountability whilst
also meeting the demands of a democratic society's expectations for
transparency and the protection of rights. They are the raw
material of our history and memory while archivists and records
managers are the professionals responsible for ensuring that these
qualities are protected and exploited for the public good. This
volume will be of key interest to anyone working with archives.
Many organizations do not yet have a formal programme of records
management, but increasingly they are recognizing the benefits of
well managed records and the serious consequences of inadequate
records systems. Establishing records management and maintaining an
effective programme requires specialist expertise. This essential
manual of practice provides a detailed guide to the concepts,
skills and techniques of records management for organizational
staff who have a responsibility for setting up, maintaining or
restructuring a records management programme. It offers invaluable
advice on the management of records in both electronic and
traditional paper media, and focuses on the following areas:
understanding records management analysing the context for records
management classifying records and documenting their context
creating and capturing records; managing appraisal, retention and
disposition maintaining records and assuring their integrity
providing access implementing records management. The appendices
provide a wealth of additional information including a list of
standards for records management, an annotated bibliography and
sources of further information, and details of professional and
advisory bodies. Readership : This much needed manual is an
indispensable purchase for organizations wishing to introduce
better practices for managing their records. The book is intended
to be of value to experienced records managers as well as LIS
practitioners and newcomers to the field. It should be on the desk
of every manager and every information professional with
responsibility for records management.
This publication describes a relatively small excavation (by CAM
ARC, now Oxford Archaeology East), whose size belies its
significance. Incredibly, this is the first properly documented
archaeological excavation in the core of Wisbech - an historic town
long suspected to have preserved interesting medieval deposits. It
fills a gaping void in previous knowledge of the character and
quality of the archaeological remains in the town and represents an
important first step in redressing the regional imbalance in
published medieval port sequences, such as those of King's Lynn and
Great Yarmouth. The site lies within the confines of the New
Market, to the north of the Norman castle. An impressive sequence
of deeply stratified medieval to early post-medieval deposits was
revealed, demonstrating at least thirteen building phases, the
earliest of which dates to the 13th century. One structure
contained evidence for in-situ metalworking during the mid 14th to
mid 15th century. The buildings were each sealed by fine silts
deposited during episodic flooding which can be broadly linked to
documented climatic conditions of the period. Detailed recording
was achieved through micromorphological analysis and the use of
high resolution thin sections. While the alternate sequence of
occupation and flooding found at Wisbech is broadly comparable to
deposits in other regional port towns, it is almost without
parallel in terms of its completeness, depth and state of
preservation. A wealth of organic remains and subtle features are
present, which rarely survive elsewhere in East Anglia. The
discovery of this important archaeological resource highlights the
requirement for consideration of its future management.
In the 1980s, work began on construction of the vast underground
Castle Mall shopping centre in Norwich. The associated
archaeological excavation was one of the largest of its kind in
northern Europe, designed to investigate not only the castle bailey
but also pre-Conquest settlement and, for the post-Conquest period,
areas of the surrounding medieval city. Documentary evidence that
supplements the substantial data presented in the monograph (parts
I and II) forms Part IV (EAA occasional paper 23), published
separately because of the scale of the data and because it forms a
rounded resource in its own right. It provides additional data on
medieval and later properties around the entire circuit of the
Castle Fee, permitting ease of access to information that might
otherwise have been obscured within the complexity of the
integrated monograph.
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