Michael Moss on Archives

Julie McLeod is Professor Emerita in Records Management at Northumbria University. She has lead multidisciplinary research projects on digital records management and developed innovative records management and information governance education initiatives with leading national and international organisations Andrew Prescott is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow and was from 2012-19 AHRC Theme Leader Fellow for the AHRC ‘Digital Transformations’ theme. From 1979 to 2000 he was a Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library, where he worked on the Electronic Beowulf project. He has also worked in libraries and digital humanities units at the University of Sheffield, King's College London and University of Wales Lampeter. Susan Stuart’s research is primarily in the area of hermeneutic philosophy and centres on developing the notion of enkinaesthesia as a transcendental condition for the very possibility of conscious experience. Stuart worked with Michael Moss on a number of ground breaking articles in which they applied the concepts and methods of philosophy to archival questions. David Thomas was Visiting Professor at Northumbria University and spent most of his career at the UK National Archives where he was Director of Technology. He was educated at London University and did a PhD in Tudor history under Conrad Russell. He researches and writes in the fields of archives and history.

Introduction: From Whisky to Nelson by Way of Brussel Sprouts: The Contribution of Michael Moss (1947-2021); 1. The scent of the slow hound and the snap of a bull-dog - the place of research in the archival profession; 2. The Hutton Inquiry, the President of Nigeria and what the butler hoped to see?; 3. Privileging information is inevitable; 4. The archives of business and the business of archives; 5. Choreographed encounter: The archive and public history; 6. Authenticity: A red herring?; 7. Opening Pandora’s Box - What is an archive in the digital environment?; 8. Overlapping temporalities? The judge, the historian and the citizen; 9. Our digital legacy: An archival perspective; 10. How the file was invented; 11. The four corners of the page and the digital record; 12. Select Bibliography of the Writings of Michael Stanley Moss