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.

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Acknowledgements
Notes on Editorial Policy
Notes on Contributors
Foreword by Carolyn Steedman
Introduction by Andrew Prescott and Alison Wiggins
I. Conceptions
1: Michelle Caswell: 'The Archive' is Not An Archives: Acknowledging the Intellectual Contribution of Archival Studies
2: 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 Migration
4: James Lowry: The Record as Command
5: Andrew Hoskins: New Memory and The Archive
6: Niamh Moore: Response to Conceptions
II. Frameworks
7: Andrew Prescott: Appraisal and Original Order: The Power Structures of the Archive
8: Anna Sexton: Archival Education and Professionalism
9: Lisa Gitelman: Metadata
10: Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert: Networks
11: Michael Moss and David Thomas: Authenticating and Evaluating Evidence
12: Victoria Van Hyning and Heather Wolfe: More Content, Less Context: Rethinking Access
13: Janet Foster: Response to Frameworks
III. Materialities
14: Alison Wiggins: The Materiality of Written Textual Forms
15: Simon Popple: Sound and Vision: The Audio-Visual Archive
16: Catherine Richardson: Doors Into the Archives: Material Objects and Document Collections
17: Jane Birkin: Archives, Art, and the Performativity of Practice
18: Eirini Goudarouli: Digital Innovation and Archival Thinking
19: Laura Mandell: Response to Materialities
IV. Encounters & Evolution
20: Eric Ketelaar: The Agency of Archivers
21: Paul Lihoma: State Power and the Shaping of Archives in Malawi
22: Paul Strohm: Archival Impulses and the Gunpowder Plot
23: Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman: Accidentally on Purpose: Denying Any Responsibility for the Accidental Archive
24: Julie A. Fisher: Response to Encounters & Evolution
V. Narrators
25: Karina Beras and Jarrett Martin Drake: From Repositories of Failure to Archives of Abolition
26: Rachel Douglas: Writer-Editors Making the Haitian and Caribbean Archives Talk
27: Sylvia Federico: Finding Women in the Archives of 1381
28: Norma Clarke: On Family History and Archives
29: Ruth Maclennan: An Artist Unpacks the Archives
30: Alan Stewart: Response to Narrators
VI. Erasures & Exclusion
31: Lae'l Hughes-Watkins: America's Scrapbook: A Reckoning in the Archives
32: Rebecca Kahn: Irreconcilable Archives: Queer Collections and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
33: Rebecca Abby Whiting: Destruction and Displacement: The 2003 War and the Struggle for Iraq's Records
34: Edwina Ashie-Nikoi, Emmanuel Adjei, and Musah Adams: Of Bonfires, Mindsets, and Policies: The Multi-Causal Matrix of Silence in Ghanaian Public Archives
35: Kirsten Weld: Response to Erasures & Exclusion
Afterword by Verne Harris
Index