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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.

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.