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AMARC Newsletter No AMARC Newsletter no. 50 May 2008 AMARC Newsletter no. 50 May 2008 ISSN 1750-9874 Newsletter of the Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections www.manuscripts.org.uk/amarc/ ARCHIVES AND SLAVERY © By kind permission of the University of Nottingham Published in April 1791 following a parliamentary debate on Wilberforce's motion for the abolition of the slave trade, this anti-slavery cartoon shows a white overseer stirring a vat of boiling sugar juice in which a slave is immersed. See Dorothy Johnston’s article on p.11. 1 AMARC Newsletter no. 50 May 2008 CONTENTS AMARC matters 2 Exhibitions 21 Archives & slavery 4 New accessions 24 Personal news 14 Book review 29 Conferences 15 Publications 31 Courses 20 Websites 33 NEXT AMARC MEETINGS Enquiries about membership should Note the dates now! be addressed to the Membership 7 August 2008, University of Secretary: Durham Mrs Clare Brown The meeting will be devoted to the AMARC Membership Secretary manuscripts of Bede and will c/o Lambeth Palace Library include opportunities to view an London SE1 7JU exhibition of manuscripts and books [email protected] in the Cathedral Library. Please let the Membership Secretary have your e-mail address. 15 December 2008, London, British Library Conference Annual subscription rates (April- Centre. The theme will be March) are: digitisation, focusing on large-scale Personal Membership: £10 digitisation projects, interoperability Institutional Membership: £30 issues and user-generated content. (For non-sterling cheques, please add £7 extra to cover bank charges) Further details of both conferences Please send your payment to : will be circulated to members by Dr Michael Stansfield email nearer the time. Please make AMARC Treasurer sure that the Membership Secretary c/o Durham University Library ([email protected]) has Palace Green your current e-mail address. Durham DH1 3RN Members without e-mail, please confirm this and your current postal AMARC GRANTS address. and how to apply for them The Association can currently offer AMARC MEMBERSHIP modest funding to enterprises that Membership can be personal or both: institutional. Institutional members • bring AMARC and its receive two copies of mailings, activities to a wider audience have triple voting rights, and may and send staff to meetings at the • support the stated aim of members' rate. Details and AMARC: to promote the application forms are available from accessibility, preservation www.manuscripts.org.uk/amarc/ and archives of all periods in libraries and other research 2 AMARC Newsletter no. 50 May 2008 collections in Great Britain Applications should comprise: a and Ireland. brief outline if the project, AMARC therefore invites conference or work; its overall cost; applications from fully paid-up the grant being sought; the names individual or institutional members and addresses of two referees; for sterling grants in areas such as details of the addressee for the the following: cheque. Applications should be • Help in defraying the costs submitted to Dr Michael Stansfield, of holding conferences and AMARC Treasurer, c/o Durham workshops. University Library, Palace Green, • Support for small projects Durham DH1 3RN or such as the web-publication [email protected] at of unpublished catalogues of any time during the year. They will manuscripts. usually be considered at the next • Assistance to scholars in Committee meeting (usually held in obtaining reproductions or April and October) and successful undertaking essential travel applicants will be informed soon as part of projects whose thereafter. aims are in line with those of Successful applicants will be AMARC. required to submit for publication in • The provision of equipment, this newsletter a brief report (300- such as perhaps book 500 words) of the use to which the supports, to facilitate access grant was put. Full details appear on to manuscripts. the AMARC website. • Assistance with the necessary purchase of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS manuscripts and archives to Many thanks to all contributors to benefit the AMARC this issue, including the following community. who are not named elsewhere: • Carrying out conservation Maredudd ap Huw, Claire Breay, work on manuscripts and Clare Brown, Peter Kidd, Loretta archives. Pamment, Pamela Robinson, NB Funds will NOT be made Patricia Stirnemann, Roderic Vassie available towards the cost of and Bettina Wagner. commercial publication but will be Thanks are also due to the allocated where they can be University of Nottingham, The expected to provide the greatest British Library, and Museum benefit to the greatest number of Meermanno, The Hague for kind people. Often this will be achieved permission to use the illustrations. by making several small awards The views expressed herein are rather than a few larger awards. those of the Editor and other named Funding levels may vary from year contributors. Submissions may be to year, but it is anticipated that the edited or cut if space is short. In Committee will make awards of not addition to contributions from more than £1000 each, and of not named individuals, information has more than £3000 in total each year. been taken from a variety of 3 AMARC Newsletter no. 50 May 2008 sources, the accuracy of which they were properly considered cannot be guaranteed. You are under the Treaty of Union in 1707. advised to confirm details, It may well be that the Treaty is the especially if travelling to events or first document to specify formally exhibitions. the future location of a national archive, and by associating them DEADLINE for publication in with the crown, sceptre and sword Issue no. 51 is 1 September 2008. of state, to give them a symbolic Please send your articles or any status. The Scottish experience news of interest to AMARC illustrates just how archives can be members to the editor: lost, or stolen or can stray from the Dr Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan: place where they ought to be. It also Rhos Fach, Brynafan, Llanafan, illustrates generally the importance Aberystwyth SY23 4BG, Wales. of their status as national or [email protected] regional symbol. Images submitted should be at least Archives can be lost. Sometimes 300 dpi and delivered on CD or via they can reappear. The ‘dossier e-mail. secret’ of the Dreyfus affair turned up when all hope of finding it had ARCHIVES & SLAVERY gone. More often unfortunately they Reports from the AMARC winter are destroyed, sometimes meeting, held at St William’s accidentally, as in the fire at the College, York, 10 December 2007. Hôtel de Ville in Paris in 1871, The main focus of discussion was sometimes as a consequence of archives relating to slavery and its ‘collateral damage’ as in the Four abolition, as we marked the Courts building in Dublin in 1923, bicentenary of the legislation which sometimes as an act of policy as in formally outlawed the slave trade in the French Foreign Office at the the British Empire. This provided outbreak of World War II, the context for a discussion of the sometimes as a deliberate act of significance of manuscripts and revenge as with the medieval archives for culture and learning records of Naples in 1943 and and problems raised for curators sometimes of necessity as with the and users. We thank the Paris police records used to stoke contributors for the following the fires in the cold winter of 1944. summaries of the proceedings. Archives can be stolen. The Russians took huge amounts of LOST, STOLEN OR STRAYED: archive material back to Russia at ARCHIVES AS SYMBOL the end of World War II, partly as Patrick Cadell (Formerly Keeper of reparations in kind, and partly as the Archives of Scotland) ‘trophies of war’, an expression Scotland had a very particular which they were still using fifty experience of archives. Having lost years later. Napoleon wished to them twice, once to Edward I of centralise in Paris all the records of England in 1290 and again to the countries he had conquered; he Cromwell in 1651, it made sure that was to a large extent, if only 4 AMARC Newsletter no. 50 May 2008 temporarily, successful. Other of origin, and those of Tallinn materials can in effect be stolen by which had ended up in Coblenz being made inaccessible, the classic were also repatriated. In the end it is example being the records of the access which is important, and with Occupation period in France. all its numerous weaknesses and Archives can stray. They can be drawbacks, it is the production and broken up and sold; they can be ready availability of surrogate broken up and distributed to copies, based on the archival virtues different repositories as happens of good arrangement, good distressingly often with private cataloguing and access regardless of records which come on the market a researcher’s nationality, or in the UK. political or social affiliation, which How can one set things right? will get over the main problems of Under an act of 1996, Russia has archives which have been displaced. nationalised all the foreign cultural But the desire to hold what has been materials it holds, and while there is won and the desire to regain what archival justification for a has been lost are irreconcilable. In considerable amount of the words of one commentator, redistribution, remarkably little has ‘When passion opposes passion, happened since the repatriations rational arguments…can hardly which took place after the prevail’. Napoleonic Wars. The political aspect of the question gives an MEDIEVAL SLAVERY: added level of sensitivity to what is PROBLEMS & POSSIBILITIES already difficult enough. The David A. E. Pelteret (Formerly countries of the former Yugoslavia Senior Research Fellow at King's have drawn up a formal agreement College, London) for archival cooperation.
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