Newsletter Working for Archives

Autumn 2019 Series 5, Number 2

A chance to visit BURLINGTON HOUSE

Living on the edge A round-up of this year’s BRA conference How to archive the counterculture 150 years of the Historical Manuscripts Commission Tax incentives for preserving archives A glimpse of Southill’s treasures ➥NEXT Newsletter Autumn 2019 Series 5, Number 2

Contents [Click on the headline to jump to the page] News The Society of Antiquaries London Message from the Chair 3 Patron Vice-Chair of Council HMC’s anniversary symposium 3 The Marquess of Penelope Baker Salisbury, PC, DL Records at Risk: latest developments 4 Treasurer Obituary: Rosemary Keen 4

Cover picture: © Cover picture: President Janet Foster Master of the Rolls, BRA visits 5 Editor of Archives Sir Terence Etherton Archives: an update 10 Dr Ruth Paley Books, grants and news 11 Vice-Presidents Honorary Secretary Events 12 Dr David Robinson Victoria Northwood David Prior Features Membership Chair of Council Secretary Living on the edge: a round-up Julia Sheppard Elizabeth Stazicker of this year’s BRA conference 6 Tax incentives for archives 8 Archiving the counterculture 9

British Records Association Newsletter Editor: Sarah Hart c/o 70 Cowcross Street, Sub-Editor/Designer: Jeffery Pike London EC1M 6EJ Consultant Editor: Janet Foster Tel: 07946 624713 To contribute to the Newsletter, please email Charity number 227464 [email protected] Archives Archives is the peer-reviewed journal of the British Records Association, whose aims and objectives it seeks to promote. Published twice-yearly by Liverpool University Press, Archives contains essays, case studies and reports on all aspects of archives. It also includes short edited documents as well as reviews of recent publications, websites and archival exhibits, physical or virtual. The next issue will be mailed to members in late autumn, and back issues of Archives from the journal’s beginnings in 1949 are now available in digital format via the Liverpool University Press website. ✦ We welcome submissions, and are always keen to receive work by early-career scholars. ✦ There is no upper limit on length of submissions, but 8,000 words including notes is suggested. ✦ Submissions must be the original work of the author(s) and must not have been published previously, or be about to be. For more information, please contact Dr Ruth Paley:

[email protected]. BACK ➦ ➥NEXT BRA Newsletter Autumn 2019 3 Message from the Chair ur latest Newsletter contains the journal now all available online, the usual interesting mix of an improved Newsletter, and Oarticles and news, and we developments in working with The are indebted to Sarah Hart and National Archives and other bodies Jeffery Pike for their editorial work. on records at risk. All very positive You should have heard from our achievements for a small charity Secretary Victoria Northwood that which continues to have a key role Penny Baker and I wish to hand over on the archive and research scene, the reins of Vice-Chair and Chair at thanks in no small measure to the the forthcoming AGM. By then we hard work and dedication of our the BRA’s membership and will have done the job for four years, volunteers and Council members. subscription lists. We are working and feel it is time to let others take In addition, in November we will to resolve some teething problems, the BRA forward. At the same time be holding the first of what may so please bear with us and renew Victoria, who has also done a good become an Annual BRA Forum on a your subscription if you find it is no stint as Secretary, wishes to change topic of importance to the archival longer valid. Your membership is her role and stand for the Vice-Chair and research communities. This will very important and we do not wish post. All three positions will be voted bring together about 20 invited to lose you! on at the AGM. participants to discuss a topical issue: The AGM, followed by the I am delighted to be able to step ‘Archives and Records in a Post- annual Bond Lecture, will take down as Chair knowing that the Truth World’, investigating if there place on 13 November at the Paul Association is now in a much are any ways in which, together or Mellon Centre in Bedford Square – happier place than it was a few years individually, it is desirable or possible a highly appropriate venue given ago. Quite apart from being more to counter the atmosphere of that next year’s April Conference financially stable, we have been mistrust in some of the evidence- will be on the subject of Art active on many fronts with a new based material (analogue and digital) Archives. I look forward to seeing constitution, a reshaped Council, a for which we are responsible. some of you there and raising a new home, an events programme, Our journal Archives (see page glass (or two) to the continued the Harley Prize, a new look for our 10) is now published by Liverpool success of the BRA. journal Archives, back numbers of University Press, who also manage Julia Sheppard, BRA Chair Marking the HMC’s 150th anniversary A free symposium organised by The National Archives to mark the 150th anniversary of the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) is taking place at its Kew headquarters on Monday, 14 October. The event replaces the cancelled HMC 150th Conference originally planned for 12 June, and is open to all, particularly academics, archivists, researchers and those interested in the history of archives. The HMC was first appointed by Royal Warrant in 1869, and various events have been held this year to mark the anniversary, including a reception at the House of Lords in July hosted by Lord Cormack, who served as Commissioner for 22 years. The HMC was first formed to document the location of records and papers in private hands and until 2003 (when it was merged with the Public Records Office to form TNA), the HMC’s findings were published as reports and calendars and were essential to researchers who could not gain access to original records in private ownership. Many of HMC’s functions continue today, including maintaining information about archives and their collections in TNA’s catalogue Discovery, monitoring the sale and export of archival material, running the Archive Service Accreditation scheme and securing significant archives from the risk of dispersal and neglect. For further information on the symposium, and to book a place, visit www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hmc-150-

symposium-tickets-67967038241. An HMC Royal warrant dating from 1882 BACK ➦ ➥NEXT BRA Newsletter Autumn 2019 4 BRA news Records at Risk: latest developments HE BRA COUNCIL is setting up collections to ensure that Ta small group of BRA members irreplaceable documents remain to help deliver its records preserv - accessible for years to come. The ation objectives. We would like to seminar is jointly sponsored by the encourage input from our Records at Risk Steering Group institutional members, as they are and the Higher Education Archive the key to establishing a robust Programme. system for saving vulnerable The fifth meeting of the Records archives. The Council group will at Risk Steering Group was held at support our work in the national Cowcross Street on 19 September. (England and Wales) advisory The BRA website will be hosting a Records at Risk steering group. page about the group’s activities RIP Bury FC: recent efforts Sadly, over the summer, the and work is going ahead to have involved rescuing records main focus of records preservation organise a fund, to be held by the from businesses that have has been rescuing records from BRA, that will provide support for gone into administration businesses that have gone into the rescue of vulnerable records, administration, such as Bury especially those unprotected by broadened the concept of ‘legal’ Football Club and Spudulike. legislation, such as charity and records beyond court records and Archives are rarely a priority when private records. This represents a deeds, and outlines a strategy for businesses and organisations are big step up for the BRA, but will their rescue, which could be wound up (a room of archive bring us back towards the reach applied nationally to other private material gathered for the centenary and ambition of the founders of sector records. It is available to anniversary of British Homes Stores our association to promote records download at humanities-digital- disappeared when the firm folded). preservation on a national basis. library.org/index.php/hdl/catalog The Crisis Management Team, A final report on the Legal /book/lrar. The author of the organised by TNA, has been co- Records at Risk project has just report, Clare Cowling, is director ordinating this work. been published. Legal Records at of LRAR, was on the BRA Council There is a seminar at The Risk: a Strategy for Safeguarding 2015-2018 and is a member of the National Archives on 15 October our Legal Heritage summarises the Records at Risk Steering Group. on mitigating risks to archival work of the project, which Penny Baker, BRA Vice-Chair

Obituary Lambeth degree by George Carey, then Archbishop of Canterbury. Rosemary Keen She maintained her interest and Rosemary, who was archivist at involvement in archives long after the Church Mission Society (CMS) retirement, helping with some of for over 30 years, died in Novem - the more detailed CMS enquiries at ber 2018 at the age of 85. Birmingham and volunteering at the She was born in Newbury, where Merton Heritage and Local Studies she attended the local Girls’ Centre near her home. Her Grammar School before going on danger of floods (this before the professionalism, her warmth and to study English Literature with Old Thames Barrier), compiled her sense of humour made her a Norse at the University of Reading, exemplary catalogues to the main much-appreciated and loved graduating in 1954. She then took archive series, and is remembered colleague. Rosemary had many the Archives course at UCL before with gratitude by scores of interests and accomplishments but going to Maidstone as an assistant researchers. When it became clear her abiding passion was the theatre, archivist under Dr Felix Hull. that the CMS could no longer especially Shakespeare. Despite She took up her post at the maintain the archive, she prepared suffering from dementia in her last CMS in 1959, the first professional for its transfer, beginning in 1979, years it is good to know that just a archivist to be appointed to that to the University of Birmingham. week before she died she was at position. The CMS, founded in The quality of her work allowed Stratford-upon-Avon, enjoying 1799 and generating one of the the archive, comprising some two performances of Christopher largest and most important million items, to be made available Marlowe’s Tamburlaine and missionary archives in existence, for research almost as soon as it Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. was extraordinarily fortunate in this arrived. It remains one of the I am indebted to Dorothy Mellor appointment. During her time University’s most-heavily used and Christine Penney for their there Rosemary successfully collections. For her services to the assistance in writing this obituary.

preserved the archive from the CMS Rosemary was awarded a Rosemary Seton BACK ➦ ➥NEXT BRA Newsletter Autumn 2019 5 BRA visits A rare glimpse of Southill’s treasures N 6 JUNE 2019 a group of members and guests Whig and a popular figure, he fought for causes such Oenjoyed a delightful afternoon at Southill, as free primary education and a minimum wage for Bedfordshire, which has been home to the Whitbread agricultural workers. Sadly he took his life in 1815, brewing family for over 200 years. The house and distressed at the war with France. His son William gardens are not often open to the public, so we felt Whitbread (1795–1867) helped develop the Midland privileged to be given a tours by Charles Whitbread Railway Company: his train line to Southill lost its and James Collett-White, their archivist (and ex- importance when the main St Pancras to Bedford line Council member of the BRA). We took advantage of opened, and the track was finally taken up in 1964. the nearby White Horse pub for an excellent lunch Most of the older archival material including the beforehand and tea after the tour. correspondence of Samuel Whitbread II has been Brewer Samuel Whitbread purchased Southill transferred to Bedfordshire and Luton Archives. But from Viscount Torrington in 1795, but died the James Collett-White showed us a selection of following year. His son, also called Samuel, employed interesting items and photographs including the Henry Holland (1745–1806) to rebuild the existing Game Distribution Book of the 1820s, which shows house. It is acclaimed as Holland’s masterpiece and the large range of the family’s contacts, and a book of today looks much as it originally did, with much of plans of the house dating from Henry Holland’s time. the decoration and furniture designed by him still in The Whitbreads have been Presidents of the situ. The house contents include portraits by Bedfordshire Historical Records Society since its Gainsborough, Reynolds and others of family inception in 1912 and the current owner Charles’s members and celebrated individuals such as John great-grandfather worked closely with Dr G. H. Smeaton the engineer. There are also paintings of Fowler, Bedfordshire’s first County Archivist and a key staff at the Chiswell Street Brewery in the 1780s – figure in the early years of the BRA. Julia Sheppard evidence of the regard Whitbread had for his employees. Southill’s extensive gardens were designed by Capability Brown, whose daughter married Henry Holland. The Whitbread family were nonconformist tradespeople. The first Sam Whitbread (1720–96) was a Whig and reformer, and was the first man to mention the Slave Trade in the House of Commons. Sam Whitbread II (1764–1815) worked closely with Holland in the design of the house. A prominent ▲ Archivist James Collett-White (left) and present owners Charles and Jane Whitbread at Southill Visit the Society of Antiquaries and Linnean Society BRA members and their guests have the chance to be shown around the libraries and archives of the Society of Antiquaries and the Linnean Society at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London on Monday 11 November. Each tour lasts about 90 minutes and the cost is £20 for BRA members and £25 for guests. Numbers are strictly limited to 20, and booking is via the eventbrite website: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/visit- to-the-society-of-antiquaries-and-linnean-society- burlington-house-tickets-65250249252. Please note it is possible to pay by cheque when booking through eventbrite, but if you are unable to The Society of Antiquaries London

© use the website please contact the BRA office via [email protected] or 07946 624713 to book and arrange payment – this is so that we can avoid double-booking places. We are all volunteers, so please allow plenty of time for this!

▲ The Society of Antiquaries’ magnificent library BACK ➦ ➥NEXT BRA Newsletter Autumn 2019 6 Living on the edge

Stephen Freeth reports on the stimulating presentations at April’s BRA conference which explored records of suburbia

ore than 50 participants heard a fascinating brainchild of Henrietta Barnett (1851-1936), who was selection of papers about different aspects of the motivated in part by Victorian altruism to create a Msuburbs, those sprawls of housing which we garden suburb for all classes after seeing the horrors of cannot quite decide whether to love or to hate; where Whitechapel where her husband was a parish priest. Betjeman’s comforting Metroland contends with An initial 80 acres were bought from Eton College furious grumbles about how the neighbours are in March 1907 by public subscription, and vested in the maintaining their garden. London County Council. This was followed by a The first speaker was Joanna Smith, Senior further 243 acres. A managing syndicate was formed for Investigator at Historic England. She described Historic the purchase and the Hampstead Garden Suburb Act England’s project The English Suburb 1830-2015, 1906 was passed to ensure low density development which considers the creation, planning and design of all and wide streets. Henrietta was a woman who knew types of suburb over nearly two centuries. Primary how to get things done. She also realised that the name sources were considered largely impractical given the Hampstead was crucial, even though the planned estate scale of the project, and so much use has been made of was actually in Barnet. secondary sources, such as Pevsner; the Victoria The principal architect was Raymond Unwin; County History; the Listed Buildings schedule; the Edwin Lutyens was also involved. Public buildings were architectural press; and the Aerofilms Collection. The positioned around a central square and public houses project is now nearing completion; an initial and temporary drinks licences were forbidden. In many publication, Shopping Parades, appeared in 2016. ways Hampstead Garden Suburb was a huge success, but the original notion that one-third of the suburb A successful garden suburb would be working-class never came to pass. The houses Next up was Sally Bevan, Senior Archivist at London were simply too expensive, and there was no local Metropolitan Archives, who spoke on Hampstead economy. The archives of the Garden Suburb are now Garden Suburb – described by Pevsner as ‘the mostly at London Metropolitan Archives, though some aesthetically most satisfactory and socially most material is still held locally in Bigwood House. It is an successful of 20th-century garden suburbs’. It was the extensive collection and A Handlist and User’s Guide was published jointly by the HGS Archive Trust and LMA in 2001.

Transport and adult education Jim Ranahan, Collections Archivist at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust spoke on Adult Education and Transport assessed through the Suburban Birmingham Project. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, this was a ‘knowledge exchange partnership’ between Birmingham’s Archives, Museums and University. It aimed to investigate South-West Birmingham, 1880-1960 across the holdings of the partner institutions, through archives, books, objects, the built environment, topography and land use. It was hoped that the project would bring the various specialists together and foster a new, shared With Suburb Trust thanks to Hampstead Garden ‘language’ and comprehensive approach. This never happened, but a huge amount of useful material is available at www.connectinghistories.org.uk. The project also gave long overdue recognition to a number of individuals such as Thomas Hackett and

Mary Cottrell, prominent in the cooperative movement, BACK ➦ ➥NEXT BRA Newsletter Autumn 2019 7

and Rose Sidgwick, the first female history lecturer at the University. She was involved in the Workers’ Educational Association and the suffrage campaign but sadly died young in 1918.

The ideal semi After lunch Deborah Sugg Ryan, Professor of Design History and Theory at the University of Portsmouth, spoke on ‘The Interwar Suburban Semi: from the “ideal” to the “real’” home’. Three million houses were built between the wars, mostly for owner-occupation. In 1900, only 10% of houses were owner-occupied. By 1939, the figure was 33%. Home ownership was promoted by legislation, which from 1932 led to a wave of smaller houses for poorer people aided by cheap mortgages, often provided by local authorities. Deborah based her description of life in one of these new houses on her experience in her own first property, Above: Deborah Sugg Ryan goes into the 1930s built in 1934. She bought this in 1994, unimproved and suburban home. Below: Sally Bevan and Sara Kinsey at a good price. It turned out to be a time capsule, with its original decorative scheme and furniture intact. It to its roots in the ‘Swindon Project’, a new development also made it clear that contemporary photographs of funded by the Society and based closely upon the wishes ‘working-class interiors’ are misleading and carefully of local people. staged tableaux for marketing campaigns. Real houses After tea there were three short presentations: were too dark to photograph with a Box Brownie and Rachel Freeman (Church of England Record Centre) the beautiful matching furniture of the marketing described The Church of England’s Role in the photos belied the clashing styles and mismatches of the Development of Croydon. The Archbishop of furniture in real houses. An amusing feature was the Canterbury’s Park Hill 130-acre estate was first built need to save space in small rooms through multi- over in the 1920s with large villas each on a 1.5-acre purpose ‘metamorphic furniture’: my favourite was the plot, all on long leases. But by the 1950s the desperate bookcase which doubled as a coal scuttle. shortage of housing led the Church to change tack. It Sara Kinsey, Head of Historical Archives at demolished the whole lot and replaced it with high- Nationwide Building Society, spoke on ‘Building density ‘1960s’ blocks, in a 50:50 venture with Wates. Societies and the Suburbs’. Building societies developed Jessica Scantlebury, University of Sussex, spoke on from the Friendly Societies and were linked to the The Mass Observation Archive. Mass Observation was Freehold Land societies which aimed to extend the formed in 1937 as a social research organisation. The Conference photographs: with thanks to Amanda Engineer Conference franchise by buying land, laying out streets and selling Coronation of George VI was its first project, with individual plots to the diaries and interviews, and it continued to collect members. information until 1966, and restarted in 1981. Its By 1900, most towns had archive is now held by the University of Sussex at The at least one building society Keep in Lewes, and the Topic Collections contain and the inter-war years were much about daily life and behaviour in the suburbs. their heyday, making homes Finally Sally Gilbert, school archivist, spoke about affordable to millions through Merchant Taylors’ School, which was founded in 1561 sponsored new builds, longer by the Merchant Taylors livery company, in Suffolk Lane mortgages and smaller in the City. At first it had 250 pupils, 100 of them free, deposits. The Co-op’s 100 fee-paying and 50 half-price. The school moved in membership, for example, the 1870s to a larger site at Charterhouse, until in 1929 increased from 6,000 to Spencer Leeson, the Headmaster, finally persuaded the 65,000 and housing was seen Company to move the school to a more suitable site. It as a safe investment after the bought the Sandy Lodge Estate in the suburbs at Wall Street Crash. Northwood, Middlesex, chosen because 75% of parents The modern Nationwide lived north of the Thames. The school reopened on 4 is an amalgamation of over May 1933 and today there are over 800 pupils. The 200 building societies and its archives are at Guildhall Library, but the plans are held archives (established in 2016) at the school. contain the historic records of Like all BRA conferences, this one was excellent – around 250 different societies. informative, varied, amusing, and firmly based on They comprise chiefly minute documents, and what they tell us. It was a pleasure to books (decisions on be there. There was plenty of time for questions. Since applications), mortgage the conference I have been musing on my own suburb registers and advertising. The (Epsom), and trying to reinterpret my own inter-war

Society is currently going back house (1928). ■ BACK ➦ ➥NEXT BRA Newsletter Autumn 2019 8 Material benefits Philip Gale sheds light on three schemes that offer tax incentives for cultural property and explains how they apply to archives

CCEPTANCE IN LIEU (AIL) is one of the UK’s collection and, in consultation with the custodians, Amost long-standing tax incentive schemes for gauges whether the collection is in a fit condition to be securing cultural artefacts for the nation. Administered shown to members of the public and how the by Arts Council England, it enables taxpayers to mandatory public access will be achieved. If transfer important cultural artefacts or heritage material stabilisation work is needed, or cataloguing is required into public ownership in lieu of to ensure public access is meaningful, Inheritance Tax. the owner will be asked to meet the Offers are made to HMRC, who necessary costs, although grant aid refer the application to the Arts may sometimes be available to assist. Council’s AIL panel, which These recom mendations are consults independent experts and incorporated into an agreement signed assesses the material’s pre-eminence by the owner before the conditional and open-market value, before exemption is given. Provided the making a recommendation to the ownership does not change and the Secretary of State for Culture, conditions imposed by the agreement Media and Sport or the appropriate are met, the conditional exemption Minister in the Scottish and Welsh from tax remains in force. A new governments. owner can reapply to renew the Often an offer is made on agreement. Further information is condition that the archival collection published on the HMRC website: is allocated to a particular www.hmrc.gov.uk/heritage. repository, in which case TNA’s Historical Manuscripts Cultural Gifts Scheme Commissioner is asked early in the This is the latest incentive created in process whether that condition is 2012 to enable UK taxpayers to acceptable. donate important heritage material If the material is offered without during their lifetime, to be held for the such a condition, institutions are Many significant collections of benefit of the public or the nation. In invited to make an application for the personal papers have been return, they receive tax reduction (for permanent allocation of the material. accepted in lieu of tax, including Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax or those of Margaret Thatcher held In the case of archives, this takes the at Churchill College Cambridge Corporation Tax) based on a set form of advertisements on TNA’s percentage of the value of the item website. The Historical Manuscripts Commissioner then they donate. The tax reduction can be spread over five considers these applications before advising Arts Council years. England (or the appropriate Scottish or Welsh Minister) The procedure is similar to the AIL scheme – who formally makes the decision. AIL is a form of applications are sent to HMRC and referred to the Arts payment rather than a charitable gift and there are Council’s AIL panel to assess the material’s cultural significant benefits for offerors. Because tax would have pre-eminence. Where donors make unconditional to be paid on an object sold privately, items are offers, the Historical Manuscripts Commissioner generally worth 17% more if offered in lieu of tax than advises about the allocation of the material. Further if sold on the open market at the same price. information on the Cultural Gifts Scheme is available on the Arts Council’s website: www.artscouncil.org. Conditional Exemption uk/tax-incentives/cultural-gifts-scheme. This scheme exempts cultural material from Inheritance For more information on tax incentives that benefit or Capital Taxes in return for making them available to archives, private treaty sales and export licensing, visit the public and keeping them in a state of preservation www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/advice-and- that allows for public access. The application procedure guidance/managing-your-collection/cultural-property. ■ is similar to AIL, with applications being submitted to HMRC and referred to the AIL panel to assess the Philip Gale is head of Standards and Improvement material’s cultural pre-eminence. Usually a member of Team, Archives Sector Development at The

TNA’s Cultural Property team visits the archive National Archives BACK ➦ ➥NEXT BRA Newsletter Autumn 2019 9 How to archive counterculture connections? Alison Scott describes the challenge of working on the papers of 1960s counterculture figure Jim Haynes

Janette Martin, archivists at the Rylands Library, to compare notes. Thinking about who else might be in this field, I put a call-out on the archives list-serv for anyone concerned with counterculture collections. Responses have included the Small Press Collection at University College, London; the Gavin Selerie collection at Lincoln College, University of Oxford; the Harvey Matusow collection at the University of Sussex; and the Mayday Rooms in London. Research seems to be on the increase. So I would be very interested in hearing from other archivists with similar challenges or researchers who have used similar collections. What has been important to them? And of course if you just want to know more about Jim Haynes, get in touch: [email protected]. ■

N NOVEMBER 2018 I started work at Edinburgh INapier University on the papers of Jim Haynes, a JIM HAYNES: A LIFE leading figure in 1960s counterculture (pictured above, 1933 Born in Louisiana, USA around 1970). Above all else, he collected people and 1955 Enlists in the US Air Force and is posted to before the Facebook age he was all about social Kirknewton outside Edinburgh networking. His online biography is full of the names of 1959 Opens the Paperback Bookshop in friends, many of whom he helped with their own Edinburgh, later a theatre venue and gallery cultural activities. 1962 Helps organise the International Writers This presented its challenges to an archivist. Jim was a Conference attended by Muriel Spark, Norman hoarder and among the more expected diaries, notebooks Mailer and others and manuscripts, the collection contains thousands of 1963 Co-founds the Traverse Theatre Club slips of paper with names and addresses, Christmas cards, 1966 Moves to London and opens the London random notes from friends. Quite apart from the issue of Traverse, sits on the board of underground preserving original order (or perhaps ‘original disorder’ as newspaper International Times Jim would be the first to admit), material like this would 1967 Founds the Arts Lab on Drury Lane be seen as incidental in many collections and perhaps not 1969 Launches the sexual freedom paper Suck even retained. But in this case, this evidence of and moves to Paris. Teaches media studies and connections and networks and friendships is the collection sexual politics at Université Paris 8 for the next and fundamentally what Jim is all about. 29 years In this context, I was interested to read an article in a 1974 Publishes Hello I Love You, a celebration GLAM (Group for Literary Archives and Manuscripts) of sexual liberation edition of ARC magazine. It was about the archive of 1978 Starts his Sunday salon dinners counterculture artist and poet Jeff Nuttall, held at the 1988 Begins publishing the People to People John Rylands Library, University of Manchester. In travel directories order to make a study of his network they ran a joint 2002 Starts to use his Paris atelier as a gallery project with their Computer Science Department to 2016 Appears as a live exhibit in a V&A develop a digital map/visualisation of Nuttall’s exhibition about the 1960s connections. Once again, connections are at the heart of 2019 Currently still lives in Paris atelier and is a collection from this period. still hosting his Sunday dinners.

This led me to get in touch with Jessica Smith and BACK ➦ ➥NEXT BRA Newsletter Autumn 2019 10 Archives: an update from the editor

LL MEMBERS should by The records of the Westminster Paving Anow have received the first Commission issue of the new-look Archives. ✦ Jessamy Harvey, Solving the mystery of The brief for the new cover was the thin man in the photograph album: A to give it a modern yet classic case study and a brief guide on resources to look. Feedback so far suggests aid in the identification of photographs. it has been well received. Coincidentally, this issue also Become a contributor marked the 70th birthday of Archives, as Stephen Freeth once the journal. It was also the remarked at an AGM, is about ‘the stuff’ first to be published – the records that our members own, care simultaneously in print and for and/or use. If you, a colleague, a digital form. friend (or even an enemy) have something We are delighted to interesting to impart about your report that all back issues collections or projects, please consider of Archives from the publicising it more widely by submitting journal’s beginnings in 1949 an article to Archives. If in doubt as to are now available to members in suitability, take a look at our editorial digital format via the Liverpool policy as outlined on our website: University Press website. We hope that www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/ this is not only a benefit for members but publications/archives-the-journal-of- will also attract new audiences. the-british-records-association. The next issue should pop through Ruth Paley your letterbox in late Autumn. Contents range from a study of the use of ordination lists to examine clerical recruitment during the Black Death to an WANTED: REVIEWS examination of the processes required to unmask the identity of the otherwise EDITOR anonymous subjects in an album of Sadly we are about to say thank photographs picked up in Spanish flea- you and goodbye to our current market. On the way we stop by the 18th Reviews Editor, Neil Murphy, whose century to look at records deriving from new role as head of department is contrasting approaches to crime and making it more difficult to carve out public order: the practicalities of deterring enough time for Archives. shoplifters and the ways in which changes If you are interested in taking to the urban infrastructure related to over, please contact me at improved policing. editor@britishrecordsassociation. org.uk for the job spec. In the new issue: There is no fee available, but ✦ David Robinson, The Black Death and necessary expenses are covered. clerical recruitment: The evidence of We estimate that it will require ordination lists between 15 and 20 days a year – ✦ Shelley Tickell, ‘The most dangerous but it is feast or famine, with that enemies to shopkeepers’: Eighteenth-century time being spread irregularly across shoplifting in the archive the year. Ruth Paley

✦ Elaine A. Reynolds, Hidden pavements: BACK ➦ ➥NEXT BRA Newsletter Autumn 2019 11 Books, Grants and News

The Newton Papers Goodison Fellowship grants by Sarah Dry Applications are now open (until Oxford University Press £22.99, late October) for the National Life paperback £5.99 Stories Goodison Fellowship 2020- 21. The aim of the fellowship is to First published in 2014 and now increase public knowledge and available in paperback, this awareness of oral history, detective story is subtitled The particularly of the National Life Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Stories collections, based at the Newton’s Manuscripts. British Library. Dry provides a fascinating The award of £5,000 is open account of what happened to anyone resident in the United Newton’s papers after he died Kingdom who wishes to use the intestate in 1727. He left a mass of National Life Stories oral history Immigrant evidence: the seal of writings – more than 8 million collections to reflect on life stories 14th-century Italian merchant words – on subjects ranging from and memory, and share the results Benedict Zakarie who settled in secret alchemical formulas to of their research in the public London from Genoa. The seal is impassioned rejections of the Holy domain. Past fellows have used attached to a receipt for 499 Trinity to notes and calculations the award to stage an exhibition, marks from the Treasury in part- on his core discoveries in calculus, write a play script, research a payment of Edward III’s debt to universal gravitation and optics. book, write scholarly articles and Zakarie for goods supplied His heirs summarily dismissed the produce a series of radio papers as ‘not fit to be printed’. programmes. For application including the Universities of York Many of his private writings were details see the BL website: and Sheffield. It uses data drawn suppressed due to their heretical www.bl.uk/nls/fellowships from a variety of records – taxation content. assessments, letters of denization Sarah Dry traces the 300-year Sign up for sales alerts and protection, and a variety of story of the disappearance and Those working in UK archives and other licences and grants – and dispersal of his papers, which libraries can now sign-up to offers a valuable resource for were then gradually rediscovered, receive email alerts every time a anyone interested in the origins, pursued and pieced together by new notice of sale is added to the destinations and occupations of a diverse group of academics and Private Treaty Sales area of the people who chose to make wealthy buyers, all of whom were Arts Council website. The Arts England their home during this united in their desire to ‘know’ the Council website lists the notices of turbulent period. Find it at real Newton. A riveting and sale for items granted conditional www.englandsimmigrants.com. untold story, The Newton Papers exemption from capital taxation. reveals a man altogether stranger These items can be purchased by TNA funding now open and more complicated than the bodies listed in Schedule 3 of the TNA’s Collaborate and Innovate genius of legend. Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (most UK funding programme is currently public museums, galleries, archives open for applications. The and libraries) for less than their programme is focused on open market value. To find out supporting collaborative more and to receive an email approaches to problem-solving, notification every time a new innovative practice and the notice of sale is added visit development and testing of www.artscouncil.org.uk/tax- original ideas among archive incentives/private-treaty-sales. services. It is designed to be delivered Medieval migrant through two schemes: the data now online Networks for Change fund A fully-searchable database is (awarding grants of up to £15,000) available to view online, containing and the Archives Testbed fund over 64,000 names of people (which provides micro grants of up known to have migrated to to £5,000). Round One cut-off England during the period of the dates for applications are 28 Hundred Years’ War and the Black October and 14 October Death, the Wars of the Roses and respectively. the Reformation. England's For more information visit Immigrants 1330–1550: Resident www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ Aliens in the Late Middle Ages is a archives-sector/finding-funding/

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2019 AGM and appraise, catalogue and make these available to the public can Bond Lecture often be daunting. The workshop 13 November 2019 aims to address these issues with This year’s Maurice Bond Lecture speakers bringing their insights will be given by Gill Bull (below), and experiences to the day. The Director of Freedom of programme will also include an Information Complaints and opportunity to discuss the work of Compliance at the Information the UK Maritime Heritage Forum. Commissioner’s Office, on the For more info visit www.rmg.co.uk/ subject of ‘Access to Information see-do/exhibitions-events/ in Turbulent Times’. maritime-archives-workshop. To The lecture will take place at book, email: [email protected]. the Paul Mellon Centre, 16 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, Scotland’s Community Heritage Conference 9 November 2019 Birnam Arts and Conference Centre, Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross PH8 0DS

Now in its eighth year, the conference provides an Poetry by Alison Brackenbury opportunity for volunteers, published by Carcanet community groups and professionals to network and share of speakers about how the experiences, unlocking the tools Tavistock’s archive has brought that lead to successful projects value or added value to their work. and fruitful working partnerships. For more information, email This year’s theme is Making Places, [email protected] or call London WC1B 3JA, and will Connecting People. For more 020 7417 0407. follow the BRA Annual General information, see visitscotland.com. Meeting. After the lecture there Carcanet archives will be drinks and presentation Tavistock Symposium 30 September–end March 2020 of the second annual Harley John Rylands Library, 7 November 2019 Prize. Deansgate, Manchester Tavistock Institute, Tabernacle This exhibition of archive material Next year’s Conference Street, London EC2A 4UE relating to the poetry publisher The next BRA Conference will be The Tavistock Institute of Human Carcanet, explores Carcanet’s held at The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Relations has a heritage of relationship with Arts Council Street, London on Thursday 23 participatory research and England, its place within the April 2020. The theme will be Art professional development work. broader UK poetry publishing Archives. More details will be At this one-day symposium landscape and its role in publishing announced at November’s AGM participants will hear from a variety the work of women poets. and booking details will be put up on the website and in our next newsletter.

How to manage shipbuilding records 28 October 2019, 10.30–4.30 National Maritime Museum,

Greenwich, London National Maritime Museum

The Caird Library at the National Maritime Museum is running a free workshop on working with shipbuilding records. As records of the British shipbuilding industry

can encompass vast swathes of

material, the challenge of how to Records of shipbuilding at the National Maritime Museum in October BACK ➦