This essay argues that archival paradigms over the past 150 years have gone through four
phases: from juridical legacy to cultural memory to societal engagement to community …

Public History: A Textbook of Practice is a guide to the many challenges historians face
while teaching, learning, and practicing public history. Historians can play a dynamic and …

Drawing on recent research (mainly focused on the UK) this article explores developments
in independent, non-professionalized archival and heritage activity and reflects on two …

Through the use of feminist historiography this article examines some of the myriad ways in
which feminist praxis has pushed against, challenged, enriched, dismantled, assimilated or …

Archival appraisal has its own history and is highly contested ground within the profession,
and increasingly with our external communities. This article analyses the evolution of …

In recent years, grassroots movements have gained traction and significant numbers
globally. Against longer histories of resistance and protest movements' mobilisation of …

Community archives grow out of the desire to collect documentary heritage that reflects our
common identities, experiences, and interests. Often used as a shorthand for the myriad …

The principle of provenance1 has guided archivists' work since its development in the early-
to mid-nineteenth century and has throughout that time remained a central topic in archival …

What Really Counts? was a sound art installation created in 2019 through a collaboration
between a sociologist and a multidisciplinary artist, working with in-depth interviews with …

With new technologies and additional goals driving their institutions, archives are changing
drastically. This book shows how the foundations of archival practice can be brought forward …