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Jenkinson Lecture Series
In 2007, The Department of Information Studies established a new annual
lecture named in honour of Sir Hilary Jenkinson, Deputy Keeper of the
Public Record Office, who was instrumental in instituting the new
Diploma in Archives Studies at UCL in 1947, the first such programme in
England. The lecture series was launched to celebrate the diamond
jubilee of archival education at UCL.
In 1947 Hilary Jenkinson, Deputy Keeper of the Public Records, gave the inaugural lecture ‘The English Archivist: a new profession’ for the new Diploma at UCL.
Forgetting to Remember; Archivists and the Memory Imperative
Professor Jeannette Bastian, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, Boston
13 March 2013
The ‘memory boom ‘ of the past several decades, has moved memory
studies to the forefront of academic concerns bringing fresh lenses
to bear on such diverse areas as social history, anthropology,
geography, and literature. Through these memory lenses that largely
focus on non-textual tropes and traces, scholars have found new ways
to explore and understand questions of identities, cultures and
communities. Although archivists have long claimed a special
relationship with memory, they have been slow – even reluctant - to
jump on this bandwagon. This presentation theorizes why this might
be so, suggesting ways that archivists might think about
incorporating memory into their practice and, by so doing, expand the
archival ability to ‘document’ contemporary society.
Professor Bastian is Director of the Archives Management Program at Simmons College, Boston, USA. Prior to coming to Simmons, she was the Director of Libraries and Archives and Territorial Librarian of the United States Virgin Islands and served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas. Professor Bastian received her master's in library science from Shippensburg University, and a master's degree in philosophy from the University of the West Indies in Jamaica; she received her doctoral degree at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Science. Her publications include articles and books focusing on archival education, memory, community archives and postcolonialism.
The Day Parliament Burned Down and its impact on British record keeping
Dr Caroline Shenton, Clerk of the Records and Director of the Parliamentary Archives
26 September 2012
In the early evening of 16 October 1834, to the horror of bystanders, a huge ball of fire exploded through the roof of the Houses of Parliament, creating a blaze so enormous that it could be seen by the King and Queen at Windsor, and from stagecoaches on top of the South Downs. In front of hundreds of thousands of witnesses the great conflagration destroyed Parliament's glorious old buildings and their contents. No one who witnessed the disaster would ever forget it - yet today this national catastrophe is a forgotten disaster. Find out about one of the most seminal events of 19th century London, which not only changed the face of the capital but also had a profound impact on recordkeeping in the UK.
Dr
Shenton is Clerk of the Records and Director of the Parliamentary
Archives in London. Educated at the University of St Andrews, Worcester College
Oxford and University College London, she was previously a senior archivist at
the National Archives where her interest in the fire of 1834 was first kindled.
She has worked in and around collections relating to the old Palace of
Westminster for over 20 years, and is a Fellow of both the Society of
Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society. She is author of the acclaimed
new book, 'The Day Parliament Burned Down'
Trust, Custodianship and Digital Records
Oliver Morley, Chief Executive and Keeper of the Public Records
29 September 2011
In presenting the third in the ongoing Jenkinson Lecture Series, Oliver Morley spoke about the challenges offered by technological change and 'big data' and suggested that the best way to build a long term digital archive was to build a sustainable institution. It is hoped that his lecture will be published in the future and details will be placed on this page as they become available.
Archival Identities
Professor Eric Ketelaar, Emeritus Professor, University of Amsterdam
5 March 2009
The recently published reader What are Archives? Cultural and Theoretical Perspectives
concerns the distinguishing characters of the archive and the Archives,
of the archivist and the archival discipline, and of people creating
and using archives. Are all these different but interrelated “archival
identities” true? Louise Craven, the editor of this collection of
essays, writes (p. 17) “Over time then, identity as meaning making is
perpetually constructed and reconstructed through the experience of
archival documents.” In my lecture I intend to discuss this question
and to propose some of the answers, using as a case study the archives
of the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia.
Eric Ketelaar (1944) is Emeritus Professor at the University of
Amsterdam. From 1997 to 2009 he was Professor of Archivistics in the
Department of Media Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of the
University of Amsterdam. As a honorary fellow of his former department
he continues his research which is concerned mainly with the social and
cultural contexts of records creation and use.
Archival Identities audio file, UCL staff and students only
For details please contact Dr E Shepherd e.shepherd@ucl.ac.uk
60 years on: the role of the 21st century National Archive vs Jenkinson's model
Natalie Ceeney, Chief Executive of The National Archives
26 October 2007
Lecture published as, Natalie Ceeney, 'The role of a 21st century
National Archive- the relevance of the Jenkinsonian tradition, and a
redefinition for the information society', Journal of the Society of Archivists 29:2 (April 2008): 57-71.
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