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Annual The Review 2002 – 2003

London:The Stationery Office 2 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

REVIEW OF THE YEAR s y e v ar i h Arc liament r a P The

his annual review of the House of Lords Record TOffice (The ) for the year that ended on 31st March 2003 is intended to meet the needs of our user communities - all those to whom we provide services in Parliament and amongst the general public, but also professional colleagues with whom we share information and work to enhance those services.

Our primary responsibility continues to Staff be support for the administrations of each Attracting and retaining the skills and House of Parliament in their core tasks of: competencies required to deliver planned • maintaining the heritage of buildings, outcomes has been a growing concern. objects and documents Increased demand for qualified staff in all sectors is a sign of a valued profession, but • providing the public with information the downside is a struggle to recruit suitable and access staff when they are needed.The year’s Planning achievements owe much to the dedication and enthusiasm of our staff who have Whether it is sustaining business as usual, displayed a willingness to develop their skills or developing new initiatives, there is greater by training and professional involvement. focus on effective forward planning. We now operate within the discipline of new House Records Management,Freedom of of Lords’ management and financial structures.The Office’s three-year business Information and Data Protection plan supports the administration’s high level One outcome of the new planning business plan, which aims to implement arrangements was agreement on a statement initiatives contained in its five-year strategic of records management services that the plan. As a joint service of Parliament the Record Office will provide to the House Record Office also operates within similar of Commons. Regular meetings between structures established for the administration the Record Office as supplier of the service of the House of Commons. and the Office of the Clerk in the House ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 3

of Commons representing the client increasing number of satisfied enquirers are a feature of the new arrangements. who have accessed cataloguing data about the original Acts of Parliament, Lloyd Records management will bring business George Papers and Bonar Law papers on benefits to offices and departments, as well the Access to Archives website hosted by as assisting compliance with information the National Archives. access legislation and creating the right culture in which to manage electronic Web access to the catalogue is planned records. In recognition of these priorities for 2005. In the meantime our newly the management boards of each House designed internet and intranet pages, which have approved the appointment of two are attracting a growing number of visitors, new posts of Assistant Records Manager have become a focus for outreach and for to provide support for Parliamentary staff internal dissemination of information about implementing records management practice our archive and records management and procedures. Key activities were services. continued rollout of a corporate file The main outreach activity was the classification scheme, development of policy internet launch of the on-line exhibition for the disposal of Parliamentary records, Citizenship - A History of People,Rights and and participation with stakeholders in Power in Britain.This was a joint project determining strategy for electronic led by the National Archives and funded by document and records management. the New Opportunities Fund that provides a readily accessible documentary resource Archive services for lifelong learners. Preserving paper and parchment records for the benefit of future generations is happily Future plans an endless task. Good progress has been • Priority will be given to drafting and made with essential building work required approving disposal practice for to bringing the Victoria Tower repository up Parliamentary records and devising to archival standard, largely with minimal strategy for the management of inconvenience to our users. electronic records. The automation project successfully • Further preparations for bringing the completed a mid-term review within time House of Lords administration under and budget, and we are now in the third of the Freedom of Information Act and the four years required for the retrospective Data Protection Act. conversion of finding aids.The online • Completion of improvement works catalogue, to be known by kind permission to the Victoria Tower repository. of the Speaker as Portcullis, will be the centrepiece of our electronic service delivery. • Launch of the online catalogue Portcullis Evidence of the future value of the catalogue in the public Search Room and scoping to researchers has been detected from an for internet access.

Stephen Ellison Clerk of the Records 4 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

SUPPORTING PARLIAMENT BY SAFEGUARDING s y e

v AND PROVIDINGREADY ACCESS TO ITS RECORDS ar i h Arc liament r a The Parliamentary Archives does this by: P

The • providing a records management and • ensuring compliance of the House of an archive service for each House of Lords administration with information Parliament and making the archives access legislation. accessible to the public.

The following key objectives provide a strategic framework for the core tasks of the Parliamentary Archives:

Records management Preservation • to develop, implement and sustain • to provide sufficient suitable repository policies for a best practice and corporate storage to preserve the archives in approach to the management of the accordance with recognised professional current records of each House of standards. Parliament. • to assist preservation of the archives • to develop, implement and sustain by their conservation and the provision policies for compliance of the House of of surrogate copies. Lords administration with the Freedom of Information Act and the Data Access and outreach Protection Act, and to provide advice to • To provide an up-to-date catalogue staff about their particular application. of the archives. Selection and acquisition • To provide a public service for the consultation and copying of records, • to ensure that departmental records and the answering of enquiries. of each House of Parliament worthy of permanent preservation are selected • To promote awareness of the archives and archived. and history of Parliament. • to acquire other records that contribute significantly to the understanding of the history and workings of Parliament. ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 5

RECORDS MANAGEMENT s y e v ar i h Arc liament r a ‘To ensure that records in all media are created, used and disposed P

The of in accordance with the business, legal, evidential and archival needs of the House by applying recognised standards and best practice in records management’ - a primary task identified in the House of Lords Strategic Plan 2003–2008 ‘To develop an integrated approach to information management in paper and electronic formats which supports business processes, complies with Freedom of Information and Data Protection requirements and guarantees effective management of records’ - a corporate goal of the House of Commons administration

This year saw records management recognised as a corporate priority for the administrations of both Houses, which provides a strong sense of purpose for the records management team’s work in developing and implementing agreed policies for Parliament.The main activities of the records management team have been:

Classification scheme for Parliamentary records 2002-2003 marked the first full year of implementation of the parliamentary classification scheme in both Houses. The scheme is based on Keyword AAA, a functional thesaurus and classification scheme developed by the State Authority of New South Wales, and widely used in the public sector in Australia. It is an essential precursor for a corporate records disposal policy and for the management of electronic records. By the end of the year approximately 800 staff had received training in the use of the quality reviews of work completed. classification scheme.Training is followed by Implementation of the scheme in both direct support to offices in the classification Houses is due to be completed by the of their existing records and in undertaking summer of 2004. 6 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

Disposal policy for Parliamentary The role of the intranet in promulgating records Record Office guidance and policies across Parliament has grown in the last year. There has been significant progress in taking As well as providing key documents, such forward and agreeing proposals for the as the Parliamentary Records Management authorised disposal of Parliamentary records. Handbook, an easy to use online thesaurus This was the outcome of a workshop where has been launched to assist staff across the a wide measure of agreement was reached in the classification by the Record Office and senior staff of both of their records. Houses about the essential requirements. The management boards of each House Web pages agreed subsequently that corporate disposal The House of Lords Publication Scheme practice should be developed for records issued in accordance with the Freedom of series created by the business activities of Information Act undertook to make records each of the twenty-eight Parliamentary management guidance to Parliamentary staff functions represented in the classification available to the public. Web pages have been scheme.The twenty-eight volumes setting developed and made accessible enabling out authorised practice for how and when users of the Parliamentary web site to view staff should dispose of records (that is destroy the Records Management Handbook, the or archive records), will be approved by the Records Management Policy Guidelines and Clerks of each House on the recommendation training material.The pages have provoked of a Records Disposal Panel to be chaired interest in Parliament’s records management by the Clerk of the Records. A two-year plan strategy as far away as South Korea! that addresses priority areas has been agreed for putting the Authorised Records Disposal Practice in place. Electronic records management In the context of a joint Information Work on the first volume, which will cover Systems strategy both Houses are examining a large number of series of financial records, the significant corporate and departmental is in progress. Once approved, it is proposed business benefits of using document to make each volume accessible on the management, content management, workflow Parliamentary website. and related technologies.The Record Office is working with stakeholders to ensure that Training and guidance for staff suitable solutions are developed for the As well as the training courses that introduce extension of records management to an staff to use of the classification scheme, the electronic environment. Record Office also presents a half-hour The Record Office has participated in the section of the staff induction programmes Parliament-wide Electronic Document and for each House. New staff are introduced to Records Management Group, which was set basic concepts of good record keeping by a up to review the needs of the departments and mixture of instruction and fun activities such offices of both Houses for the management as quizzes. Records management can be fun, of electronic records and workflow, and to but the serious message is that it is everyone’s consider the implications for document responsibility. ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 7

management applications of developments in electronic records management under the e-government initiative. It has also been involved in the Parliamentary Information Standards and Ownership Project, which was tasked to define and agree standards for data relating to internal HOW THE INFORMATION IS ORGANISED exchanges of information and those with BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE MEMBERSHIP & SERVICES TO MEMBERS

History Proceedings Investigative the outside world, taking into account Legislation Legislation Judicial & (including select Procedures Members & Reimbursement Services to (public) (private) Business Registers issues relating to records management. Role Hansard) committees Composition Scheme Members Codes of Conduct Reimbursement Standing Scheme - a gen- Public Bills orders of the Public Private Bills List of eral guide & Public House of Information & Acts of Lords, Current General Members & The Clerk of the Records addressed briefings Parliament Amendments Library Notes Acts & Published & Guide Companion Analysis parliamentary archivists at the first MInutes of Register of Register of Proceedings Journals Lords’ Hereditary Order Papers Public Membership Select Interests Peers & Hansard Information Minutes of part of an ECPRD (European Centre of Committee Briefings & Evidence Committees Reports Notices ADMINISTRATION for Parliamentary Research and Civil & Public House of Appeal Criminal Information Lords Committee Practice Select Structure Briefings Judgments Reports Policies & Directions Committee & Documentation) Double Seminar about Finance Staff Staff on Adminis- Office Guidance trative Reports & Matters Guide to management of records in a digital Services VISITOR, EDUCATION Published AND ARCHIVE SERVICES Details of environment, hosted by the Belgian Annual & Principal Office Officials Reports Visitor Education Archive Federal Parliament in cooperation with Services Services Services

Records Public House of the Parliament of the Netherlands in Education Information Management Visitor Archives & Membership Reports Resource Lords Staff Unit Briefings Guidance for Information Finding Aids Accounts Handbook Publications relating to Staff May 2002. Finance

Freedom of Information and sets out the classes of information the House Data Protection publishes, how the information is published The Freedom of Information and Data and whether a charge is made.The scheme Protection Acts are important drivers for is accessible on the Parliamentary website, effective management of records in all or available on request from this Office. media. Coherence is brought to Most of the information included in the arrangements in the Lords by consolidation scheme has been publicly available for many of all three facets in the responsibility of the years. Some new information was included House’s Freedom of Information Officer in the first edition of the scheme including based in the Record Office. Assisted by a the records management guidance material Lords’ working group, she has continued to for staff and the House of Lords Staff prepare for the full implementation of the Handbook.The House of Lords will identify Freedom of Information Act in 2005 and additional information suitable for inclusion for the extension to the House of the Data in subsequent editions. In January 2003 the Protection Act. Separate preparations are House of Lords decided that the Publication being made by the House of Commons. Scheme should be amended to include The House of Lords Publication Scheme information relating to Members’ expenses was approved by the Information from autumn 2004.This information will Commissioner and published in November be published annually (related to financial 2002 in accordance with section 19 of the years), and broken down by the main Freedom of Information Act.The scheme categories. 8 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

SELECTION AND ACQUISITION s y e v ar i h Arc liament r a The range of accessions during the year reflects both the P

The departmental functions of both Houses and our aim to acquire other records that contribute significantly to the understanding of the history and workings of Parliament. During the year there was a total of 117 Non-official deposits accessions, a decrease on last year’s figure Records were acquired from a range of of 133.This can be accounted for by a non-official sources and represented a wide temporary embargo on some deposits because date span. Additional deposits were made of the building works in the to several existing collections: the Britain Victoria Tower. in Europe papers, the papers of Lord Shackleton and the records of W B Gurney & Sons.This last included shorthand notebooks relating to the trial of Warren Hastings as well as office papers.

Nevertheless, a large deposit of files was made by ’s Office, 51 boxes of financial records were received from the House of Lords Refreshment department and 60 boxes of research material came from a new depositor, the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). All of these deposits will be subjected to appraisal procedures. Large deposits continued to be received of records that will not require further appraisal; these included papers that are laid before the House of Lords every day (93 boxes) and files of the House of Commons European Scrutiny Committee (73 boxes). Of particular note were the accessions from the Commons’ Private Bill Office of printed volumes as well as office Several accessions were small but of value to files dating from 1924. the history of both the Palace of A further purchase of microfiche of House and the history of Parliament, notably the of Commons sessional papers was made. letters concerning the burning of the Houses ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 9

of Parliament in 1834 and the letter from In total he worked for that House for 55 years the Duke of Wellington to the Earl of Lucan and in so doing acquired a wealth of in 1832 concerning parliamentary reform. experience and knowledge of Parliamentary The more recent history of the House of procedure. He became Clerk of the House Lords was represented by a deposit by a of Commons in 1871 and held that post until former Clerk of the Parliaments, Sir Michael shortly before he died in 1886. In 1844 May Wheeler-Booth, of papers relating to the published A Treatise upon the Law, Privileges, Royal Commission on the Reform of the Proceedings and Usage of Parliament which House of Lords, of which he was a member. became the bible of Parliamentary Procedure and today is simply known as ‘Erskine May’. The Erskine May Papers Since May’s death his papers had remained in The most significant non-official acquisition private hands, although in 1984 the Record during the year was the papers of Thomas Office had been able to obtain microfilm of Erskine May,first Baron Farnborough (1815- most of the collection. In March 2003 the 1886). May began his career in the House opportunity arose for the Office to purchase of Commons in 1831 when he became them. Assistant Librarian. The collection includes approximately 50 letters from William Gladstone, as well as correspondence with four successive Speakers, Charles Shaw Lefevre, John Evelyn Denison, Henry Brand and Arthur Wellesley Peel.There are letters regarding the publication of the first edition of the treatise and correspondence with officials of overseas parliaments indicating the influence of that publication on other legislatures. There is also May’s private journal for 1883-1886, and the letters patent relating to his appointment as Clerk of the House in 1871.The papers offer a valuable insight into the House of Commons, and its procedures, in the 19th century.

A full list of accessions is provided in Appendix 1. 10 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

PRESERVATION s y e v ar i h Arc liament r a Significant progress has been made with the Victoria Tower P

The repository improvement project.

This important project, which Building work has been by 2005 will bring electric concentrated on assembly wiring, fire precautions and and commissioning of the air conditioning of the main air handling and repository up to archival conditioning plant outside standard, entered its second the repository areas on the year. Inevitably, the building 13th and 14th floors of work has dominated the life the tower. From there will of the office, but it is to the run supply ducts, each serving great credit of the staff that one of twelve repository floors disruption to public services and and the local conditioning and other activities has been minimised.This recirculation equipment contained in has been no mean feat considering that large small plant rooms on each floor. quantities of records are held offsite at two Works, which include newly constructed fire separate storage locations, and as building safety exits and escape illumination, have work proceeds from floor to floor, there has been completed for four repository floors been a need for almost continuous decanting and the records have been reinstated. With and reinstatement of the records that remain the completion of the main plant, work can in the repository. Considerable time has had proceed more quickly from floor to floor, to be devoted to planning and supervising but in practice the pace of work has to be these activities as well as determining revised governed by the need to give adequate layouts for racking as each repository floor is protection to the records during the various returned to archive use. moves. Plans to implement separate environmental conditions for photographic and other media in special stores within the repository are well advanced.

Conservation Addressing needs The report by the British Library on the condition survey described in last year’s review was delivered during the year. The report found that the physical condition of the bulk of the archive is sound. However, 18 % was found not to be in good condition and production of these items should either be restricted or stopped altogether. Many of the records in this category are plans and thus the decision taken during 2001-02 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 11

to undertake limited treatment on those The NADFAS volunteers who have so nineteenth century plans not previously generously given of their time this year covered by conservation work was fully include Alan Bergman, Viorica Bergman, justified.This work has continued and has Elizabeth Dundas, Angela Haine, Helen already delivered benefits in terms of more Hodgson, Margaret Lykiardopoulos, Laura efficient not to say cleaner production to Silver, Ann Stevenson, and Audrey Watson. searchers, although it does not solve all of the issues identified in the report. The report found that 10% of the archive has high priority preservation needs and 36% medium priority needs. Whilst over 50% of the archive fell into the low priority band nearly two thirds of the material in this band was closer to the medium band than the very low priority band.The report indicated that improvements to storage, protection and environmental conditions would significantly improve the profile of these priority bands and therefore the future Display of documents challenges for the conservation unit are beginning to emerge. It is hoped that during The working group convened to review 2003-04 a strategic policy for the work of the the display of documents within the palace unit will be developed, incorporating the reported to the Administration and Works report’s findings. Committee early in the year.The group found that the present display cases in the We have continued to diversify the work of Royal Gallery do not meet the relevant the unit, principally by addressing the needs British Standard for the display of archival of those records covered by the automation material and made a number of project and subsequently identified as ‘sick’. recommendations for future displays. Binding work for the Lords’ Library and A consultant was subsequently appointed other other offices has also been carried out. to produce designs for new cases and these In an attempt to expedite work that is were delivered at the year’s end. not suitable for the unit we have been working with volunteers from NADFAS, The National Association of Decorative Preservation microfilming & Fine Arts Societies. A team of NADFAS The Reprographics Unit has continued volunteers have been visiting the office the programme of filming records in case in pairs three times a week to undertake of disaster and for the provision of surrogates essential non-specialist preservation work, in the Search Room. Some progress has including removing rusting metal paper clips been made in developing strategies for and staples, re-filing material in acid free these activities. Digitisation of the office’s folders, re-labelling files and re-boxing files collection of images has continued and the in archive boxes. Work completed to date unit was heavily involved in producing includes approximately 1000 files of House digital images for the on-line citizenship of Commons committee papers. exhibition. 12 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

ACCESS AND OUTREACH s y e v ar i h Arc liament r a The five year automation project reached the half way stage. P

The Four assistant archivists, employed on in consultation with the offices concerned. temporary contracts to 2005, continued Approximately 80 metres of shelf space in the expert task of editing and indexing data the Victoria Tower repository has been in the cataloguing system (CALM 2000+) freed as a result of the appraisal of those to international standards of archival modern series. In addition, all records have description.They have been supported been re-referenced and many re-boxed in in their work throughout the year by two acid-free materials temporary typists who are responsible House of Commons records for converting the existing paper lists into electronic text for the new archivists to edit Catalogue entries to the records of the into the online catalogue. following offices and departments have been imported and substantially expanded on the catalogue database: HC/SA (Serjeant at Arms’ Department) HC/SO (Speakers Office) HC/COMM (Commons Commission) HC/CL/CH (Office of the Clerk of the House) HC/CL/CA (Office of the Clerk Assistant) HC/LB (Library)

Some 13,382 files of the European Scrutiny Committee (HC/CL/EU) have been The number of records in the catalogue at catalogued online for the first time. the end of March 2003 was approximately These files show the consideration given 132,580 (some 41,500 records have been to European legislation and its impact on added during the year). While the UK law.They thus form a very important automation project is designed mainly to historic record series, and in order to deal convert existing finding aids to electronic with them in the depth required, a contract form without the need for cataloguing archivist was employed for four months. from scratch, very often the descriptions Three thousand of these records were of records are enhanced in the process. catalogued from scratch, the remaining Catalogues to 17 Parliamentary offices existing descriptions were imported into the or departments have been retrospectively catalogue and all files were boxed in archive- converted this year and the process also standard materials. Employing this form of provided an opportunity to appraise and short-term contract was so successful that we dispose of records of little historical value plan to use this solution again in the future which have been accessioned in the past, should the need arise. ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 13

In May 2002 eight postgraduate students Group for Parliamentary World Government from the MA in Archives and Records (PWG) Management Course (UK and International) Scottish Roads and Bridges Commission at University College London visited the (SC) Record Office on a project placement. Society of Clerks at the Table (SCT) They re-catalogued the records of the Association of Secretaries General of House of Commons’ Nationalised Industries Parliaments (ASGP) Committee which was appointed ‘to review Association of Lieutenants of Counties reports and accounts of all Government (ALC) bodies that received funding from Statute Law Commission (SLC) Parliament or funds advanced from the Clerk of the Crown (CC) Exchequer’. Its papers include administrative Commonwealth Parliamentary Association records of the committee and files on (CPA) particular inquiries undertaken.They Shaw Lefevre (SLF/1-7) created 514 file descriptions for our online catalogue.They also re-boxed and re-filed A backlog of new accessions from outside everything in acid-free archive boxes and Parliament has been cleared and the file covers. following collections have also been added to the catalogue: the Erskine May papers, House of Lords Records the Abraham papers, the Goodman papers The following Lords’ series underwent and the Bond papers. appraisal and were catalogued online: Migration of legacy data HL/PO (Parliament Office) Conversion work on the Accessions database HL/PO/AC (Accountants Office) and the databases of Commons and Lords HL/PO/CA (Clerk Assistant) Committee papers was successfully HL/PO/CP (Clerk of the Parliaments’ completed during the year, and the Office) Microfilm and Image Library databases HL/PO/EO (Establishment Office) were re-imported with new references. HL/PO/ IA (Internal Auditor) This provides scope to link digital images HL/PO/LB (Library) to entries in the catalogue. HL/PO/RC (Reading Clerk) HL/PO/RO (Record Office) A major project on the Architectural Archive HL/BR (Black Rod) has allowed it to be sorted, re-arranged and HL/RF (Refreshment Dept) re-referenced (given unique references according to provenance to fit in with the Parliamentary Collections new cataloguing structure and standards), edited and indexed according to subject, During the year, cataloguing data for the place and person name standards. Records following collections were imported, which were better placed elsewhere in the catalogue entries enhanced and, where catalogue have been separated out according necessary, records re-boxed: to provenance. For example, papers relating Exchequer Chief Usher (ECU) to Sir have been given their Lord Great Chamberlain (LGC) own reference of ‘BAR’ and papers relating 14 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

to A W N Pugin Searchers are now ‘PUG’. After a decline in previous years, the Records created number of visitors to the Search Room by the Ministry rose this year to 979.This is encouraging, of Works or the particularly since apart from the usual Property Services fortnights closure for stocktaking in Agency have also November, it was necessary to close the been put into other Search Room occasionally for staff training appropriate and for talks to visiting groups while the sections of the office’s lecture room in the Victoria Tower catalogue. It is was being refurbished. Access was also now possible for restricted during the University College searchers to search London students work placement in May for a subject, person, or place in the Palace 2002 and the replacement of the lift to the of Westminster (specifically using the index repository during the summer inevitably searches or more generally with an ‘any text restricted the range of original records that search’) and anything held in the range could be produced. of plans and drawings in the architectural archive will be available to them. A total of 6,650 items - volumes, boxes, files, original Acts, plans, microfilm and other Public Services items - were produced for searchers, an increase of over 1,500 compared to last year. Facilities for searchers This represents an average of 6.8 orderable A number of small improvements were units per visit.There were 35 requests from made to the Search Room this year. Glass parliamentary offices for loans of documents panels were installed in the Search Room and 179 requests for records to be brought door, which enabled us to reduce the impact from the London Metropolitan Archives of noise from the nearby corridor without where some records are currently stored compromising security. In order to clarify during the Victoria Tower building work. identification and lines of responsibility There were 441 new searchers of whom information about Search Room staff has 25% came for official and business purposes, been displayed, giving names and job titles 5% were from the media and the remaining with accompanying photographs.The 70% were pursuing research for academic office’s kitchen was re-designed to create or personal reasons. a space where searchers can sit and eat lunch for the first time, and a chilled water dispenser was installed. We intend to Purpose of visit (new searchers) examine how we might improve the future I Official/Business delivery of our services during 2003-04, 25% particularly in the light of the automation I Academic/Personal project. 70% I Media 5% ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 15

The searchers in question were mainly Subjects for biographical studies included conducting research into the 19th century the trade unionist George Barnes, (26%) and the 20th and 21st centuries the novelist Rebecca West, the cartoonist (49%); the remaining 25% were looking at Francis Carruthers Gould, Charles Darwin, periods before 1800 or did not specify. John Milton, Henrietta Maria (wife of Charles I), the anti-slavery campaigner Subjects being researched included William Wilberforce, and the Puritan genealogy (7% of new applicants), William Prynne. architecture (2%) and legal matters (13%). 7% declared an interest in parliamentary Following the surveys of 1999 and 2001, history, which included parliamentary the office participated once again in the reporting in 1668, parliamentary committee National Survey of Visitors to British systems in the UK and India, and evacuation Archives conducted by the Public Services plans for Parliament in 1940. 10% were Quality Group.The survey was carried out interested in local and transport issues, in autumn 2002, but the results and analysis including Cork lunatic asylum, small towns are not yet available. in North Hampshire in the 17th and Searcher profiles 18th centuries, the London -Portsmouth telegraph line, Liberals in the City of Dr Sarah Poynting from Keele University London 1900-1931, and witchcraft in Essex. spent several weeks in the Record Office 14% were researching contemporary issues, undertaking research for a three volume including head injury rehabilitation, duty scholarly edition of the writings of King of care issues in the British army, and the Charles I, which will be published by Oxford mis-selling of pensions. University Press in 2009.This project will take in material scattered across the UK and The remaining 47% pursued general abroad in order to present a full picture of historical subjects.Twentieth century topics Charles through his writings for the first included media influence on Lloyd George, time. She has studied various writings of Winston Churchill and the Bolsheviks, the Charles I at the Parliamentary Archives, Conservative party and suffrage, British including material in the Main Papers of the reactions to the bombings of Hiroshima House of Lords such as the Naseby letters. and Nagasaki, female circumcision in Sudan 1945-1946, English jingoism 1878-1914 and the ideal of motherhood as seen through Parliamentary debates 1936-1967. A broad range of topics from earlier periods included infanticide and prostitutes in the 19th century, transportation and convict hulks, medical care in English prisons 1770-1850, music hall licences, early English medicine, the Bechuanaland police 1825-1903, ship money in Lincolnshire in the 1640s, court theatre in the reign of Elizabeth I, and the Feltmakers Company. Sarah Poynting transcribes a letter of Charles I 16 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

Dr Poynting has been painstakingly in Westminster Hall and Mr Schwartz and transcribing each item and making his son were shown the window during a visit interesting discoveries along the way, such to the office when they were also supplied as holograph additions by Charles to with copies of a document relating to the speeches which have not previously been incident in which Captain Elliott was killed. noted. In particular Dr Poynting believes Remote enquiries that a Naseby letter partly in cypher, which scholars have previously thought to have Staff answered a total of 2,919 (last year been addressed to Prince Maurice, was 2,326) remote enquiries which were logged actually addressed to Prince Rupert. on the office enquiry database.The office ‘As I study Charles’s writings, I can’t help was open for a total of 241 days, which but be drawn into his world and develop represents an average of 12.1 enquiries sympathies for him’ Dr Poynting says. per day.These enquiries comprised 1,222 ‘He was undoubtedly very brave, romantic (last year 746) requests by e-mail, 44 (57) and determined, although also stupid at by fax, 795 (748) by letter and 858 (775) times and stubborn’. by telephone. In addition, 1,604 ‘quick’ telephone calls which were not logged During the year the office received an on the database were dealt with by staff on enquiry from Mr A. Schwartz concerning the public lines.The increase in the number a relative, Captain Elliott, who was killed of enquiries, and especially the increase in during an air raid on the Palace of e-mail enquiries, is attributed to the success Westminster in 1941. Captain Elliott’s of the office’s outreach programme, name is included in the memorial window including its web presence, and to increased public use of computers and the Internet.

Remote Enquiries 3000 I 2001-02 2500 I 2002-03 2000 1500 1000 500 0 E-mail Fax Letter Telephone All

Informal feedback from remote enquiries indicates a generally high level of satisfaction. ‘I would like to thank you very much for your prompt response to my request. I am impressed by the speed and the precision of the provided information, which was very helpful for my Mr Schwartz and his son in Westminster Hall research…’ ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 17

‘I am delighted with your help and guidance programme about royal marriages, and the over something I have been battling with for a Bill of Rights for BBC Parliament and used while and as yet found little guidance from local images from the Lloyd George Papers for archives or libraries as to how to progress my a Timewatch programme about George V query… - only wish I had thought of contacting and for a programme about the Versailles you earlier! Please accept my sincerest Conference. appreciation...’ Granada Media Group Ltd filmed David Starkey with Tudor Acts of Parliament for a Use of records Channel 4 programme Edward and Mary - The Unknown Tudors. Media use Green Bay TV filmed the journalist Huw It was a particularly busy year in respect of Edwards with the Act for the Union of requests by the media for filming material England and Wales of 1536 for a programme in the archives: about the Welsh language. BBC Radio 4 interviewed the Clerk of the NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation Records about the use of vellum for Today in filmed the Charitable Uses Act of 1601. Parliament, David Prior about the Civil List for The Week at Westminster, and Katharine Japanese Television filmed Charles Barry’s Bligh about the Royal Family Marriages Act plans of the . of 1772. MBC of Korea filmed the Corrupt and BBC TV filmed a number of documents of Illegal Practices Prevention Act 1883 and constitutional significance for a Panorama interviewed Professor David Butler for

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a programme about the British electoral system. Books and offprints received Act of Union Bicentenary 1801-2001: Exhibition Catalogue (PRONI, 2002) The 1710 Pollbook for Cornwall, transcribed, indexed and annotated by Richard G Grylls Michael Davies,‘The Office of the Clerk of the Parliaments’, Peterhouse Annual Report 1999/2000 Paul Seaward,‘Local History at Westminster’, Local History Magazine, involved children from primary schools July/August 2002 in the London boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Southwark. Classes from these schools Paul Seaward,‘Researching Members visited Parliament at the time of the Golden of Parliament 1386-1832’, Genealogists Jubilee celebrations and were able to examine Magazine, September 2002 copies of images and documents drawn from Paul Seaward,‘Whigs,Tories, East Indiamen our collections on the theme of Kings and & Rogues:The History of Parliament 1690- Queens. We also hosted a visit from Edgehill 1715’, Historian, Autumn 2002 sixth form college in Devon which enabled students to examine original source material Andrew Thrush,‘The House of Lords’ in connection with their ‘A’level studies. Record Repository and the Clerk of the Parliaments’ House: A Tudor Achievement’, After some three years gestation the on-line Parliamentary History, Vol.21, Part 3 (2002) exhibition Citizenship - A History of People, Rights and Power in Britain was launched Promoting the archives and history towards the end of the year. This was a joint project with the National of Parliament Archives (formerly the Public Record During the year many of the initiatives that Office) in which the Record Office was a were launched following the review of supporting partner. It was supported by the outreach activities undertaken in 2000 came New Opportunities Fund and was the first to fruition or began to have a perceivable time that the Office has worked with the effect on the profile of the office. At the National Archives in this way. It was also the same time we became involved in new first time that we have been involved in an ventures. on-line exhibition.The site, which explores what it has meant to be a citizen from 1066 Learning Resources to the present day, can be found under the The links the office developed last year with Pathways to the Past section of the National the Parliamentary Education Unit continued Archives web-site at: and took the form of a joint venture which www.pro.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 19

This section is directed at adult learners Council in Berkeley Square to mark the and is therefore a major contribution by the golden jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. office to providing resources for life long The stand featured a case containing some learning. It provides access to images of some printed items from the Commons library of our most well known documents, such as and also a quiz based around the coronation the Death Warrant of Charles I and the Bill banquet of James II. of Rights and therefore is also an important part of our desire to be inclusive and open to all.The documents used in the exhibition are drawn from a wide cross section of our holdings and include items relating to Birmingham, which provides a local history focus on the site. Exhibitions and displays In June the office collaborated with the Curator of Works of Art and the to mount a stand at the event organised by Westminster City 20 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

Once again our portable display stand was Parliamentary Archives web visits taken to the Society of Genealogists’ London I family history fair in May. It was also set up 15000 FOI at a National Council on Archives’ reception 10000 I Other Pages held on the House of Commons’ terrace, 5000 I Home Pages at the London Archives Users Forum conference and at an event organised by the 0 Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar National Archives to promote the Access to 02 02 02 02 02 03 03 03 Archives initiative. Promotional activities the mounting of our catalogue on the site in The launch of the 1690-1715 section of the the near future. Some indication of likely History of Parliament’s history of the House future demand is provided by the statistics of Commons was accompanied by a number from the Access to Archives pages mounted of articles written by the History’s Director by the National Archives which have placed and the office was able to supply images of the catalogues we have contributed to A2A documents as illustrations. Explanatory text amongst the top 40 catalogue requests. concerning our activities was also included. Talks We have continued to place publicity material in local and family history Staff gave talks to the following groups of publications and contributed an illustration postgraduate archivists, historians, societies for one of the House of Lords’ christmas and others: cards. ASSIGN (ASLIB Social Science Website Information Group & Network) Constituents of David Lepper MP During the year a range of features were Institute of Historical Research developed on our internet pages which were Liverpool University Centre for Archive re-launched in August.These have included Studies news of our activities and recent accessions, Marburg School of Archives frequently asked questions, an image of the NADFAS volunteers month and a number of galleries featuring Queen Mary College Contemporary Winston Churchill (voted Greatest Briton History Group in a BBC poll), Elizabeth I (who died in The Foundation for Science and Technology 1603) and Women in Parliament.These University of Wales, Aberystwyth galleries have been reflected in displays (Archives and Records Management) we have mounted in the cases in the Royal Westminster Society Gallery. Winckworth Sherwood (law students) During the year the number of visits to Visiting groups are now given a questionnaire the pages (which include those relating to complete so that we can gauge the level to Freedom of Information and Records of satisfaction with the visit. Results are very Management) has steadily increased. encouraging, with 88% rating the visit overall We will continue to improve the provision of as excellent or very good, and a further 11% information via these pages and to anticipate as good. ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 21

How would you rate the visit overall? ‘The talks were very interesting. Unfortunately not enough time!’ I Excellent/Very Good 88% Talks about the archive and records I Good management services of the office were given 11% to Commons and Lords staff on induction courses, Commons’ Library staff, and staff I Dissappointing/Poor 1% of the Parliamentary Education Unit. Record Office staff on a reciprocal visit learnt about the work of the Education Unit. Many positive comments were made, Visits including: ‘Very friendly staff made us feel Amongst parliamentarians who visited the very welcome’,‘Fascinating to see the original archives were Lord Irvine of Lairg, the Lord documents in the Victoria Tower’,‘Thoroughly Chancellor; Lord Williams of Mostyn, interesting talk – I learnt a lot’, and the Leader of the House of Lords and Lord ‘An extremely interesting and worthwhile visit’. Grocott, Government Chief Whip in the Document displays were rated as fully suited House of Lords. Several overseas Clerks to their interests by 63% of people and partly on short-term attachments to the House of suited by a further 33%. In addition, an Commons and House of Lords also visited. overwhelming 91% said the talk had fully Visiting archivists and librarians from met or exceeded their expectations. overseas Parliaments included Rivka Markus, Head Archivist of the Knesset; Did the Talk meet your expectations? Ms Gro Sandgrind, Librarian of the I Exceeded/Fully Met Parliament of Norway; Hanne Rasmussen, 91% Chief Librarian and Archivist of the I Partly Met Parliament of Denmark; Kristin Geirsdottir, 9% Manager of Information Services of the Parliament of Iceland and Mesdames Buge, Maynial and Rougé from the Library of the French Senate. Other comments related mostly to problems caused by the building works in the Victoria Tower which closed our lecture room for several months; this meant some groups were not able to see inside the Tower, or not able to view many original documents: ‘Would have been nice if whole building had been accessible’,‘Looking at more records would have been useful’,‘Visit rather hampered by building work but very interesting and enjoyable’. Mostly however groups were very happy with their visit, and their only complaint was that it had to come to an end. 22 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

of Archives and Archivists of Parliaments and Political Parties of the International Council on Archives. Paul Gibbons was a member of a panel assessing bids from further and higher education institutions to the Joint Information Systems Committee ( JISC) Fact finding visits made by archivists, records call ‘Supporting Institutional Records managers and others included Australian Management’. High Commission staff; Public Record Jennie Lynch served as Secretary of the Office search room staff; Diane Bach Society of Archivists Regions & Groups and David Hamilton from the Courts Training and Development sub-committee Service’s Records Management Service; and is the London Region representative Jill Pennington from HM Customs and for the Specialist Repositories Group Excise about implementation of the committee. She is working towards Classification Scheme; David Ryan, Head professional registration. of Archive Services, PRO; Laura Taylor from Lloyds TSB Archives; Gaspar Kileo David Prior was re-elected as one of the two from Tanzania about records management; representatives of the Society of Archivists’ F.Joseph Moravec, GSA Public Buildings London Region on the London Archives Service, Washington DC and archivists from Regional Council and continued as Treasurer the National Archives of Estonia. of the Council. He also served on the executive committee of the Greater London In a twist to the national initiative ‘Take your Archives Network and continued as daughters to work day’ the daughter of a convenor of the Network’s training and friend of a member of staff spent a day in the meetings group. Record Office. During the day Zara Donaldson was introduced to the work of the Caroline Shenton presented a number office and helped in some administrative tasks. of training sessions on cataloguing for the Archive Skills Consultancy. She serves Professional activities as an assessor for the Society of Archivists’ Katharine Bligh served on the Public Registration Scheme, and sat on the London Services Quality Group, the Quality Forum Musuems, Archives and Libraries ICT for Archives and Local Studies. She was strategy consultation panel in 2002. elected as a Councillor (for a period of 3 years) Mari Takayanagi served as Professional to the British Records Association. Registrar for the Society of Archivists from Stephen Ellison served on the UK Political October 2002, chairing the Registration Parties and Parliamentary Archives Group sub-committee which administers the and on the steering committee of the Section Society of Archivists’ Registration Scheme. ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 23

ORGANISATION AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT s y e v ar i h Arc liament r a The Record Office is one of several offices that constitute the P

The Clerk of the Parliaments’ Department (the Parliament Office) of the House of Lords. The Office supports the administrationsof political papers acquired each House and is operated as a joint service on the closure of the of Parliament with its budgeted costs shared Beaverbrook Library by the Lords and Commons in the ratio (where she had been the of 60:40. Financial and other information Archivist). Over 27 years about the Record Office set in the context of her main accomplishment its place in the House of Lords administration was the detailed are given in House of Lords Annual Report cataloguing of the 2002-2003 and in House of Lords Resource collections, particularly Accounts 2002-2003 (forthcoming).These the Davidson Papers and the Beaverbrook documents and The House of Commons Papers. Her personal knowledge of the Commission,Twenty-fifth Annual Report, collections acknowledged by numerous Financial Year 2002-03 are accessible at historians is unlikely to be matched, but one www.parliament.uk, or available in hard of her last tasks was to oversee the migration copy from The Stationery Office. of the finding aids to the electronic catalogue. She is succeeded by Mari Takayanagi on Staff promotion, and Jennie Lynch moves from the Cataloguing Team to the vacated post of The complement of seven archivists/records Assistant Archivist. managers, four temporary archivists working on the automation project, and four support staff was unchanged in 2002-03. Specialist Work placements support was provided for conservation and The office was pleased to be able to offer reprographic services, in accordance with 3 GCSE students, Razan Uddin, Harriet service agreements, by secondment of staff Thorne and Alison Fernett, experience of from the British Library and The Stationery working in the office. Caroline Venamore and Office. In addition Leanne Traynor Dutton Nicola Richardson joined us as prospective was employed on a temporary contract in archivists in search of experience and connection with the automation project. Michael St John, a UCL student, undertook an archive management placement. Arash Within the complement there were three Fatemian, a sandwich changes. Stephen Noble moved to another student, spent part of his post in the House of Lords and was replaced year in the House of by Colin Rudkin. Kathy McCarthy, Lords with us, and Leah Conservation Officer, returned to the British Rinfrit, an American Library and was replaced by Tom McCarthy. studying at the University Katharine Bligh, who retired from her post of Westminster, of Archivist on 31st March 2003, joined undertook a placement the Record Office in 1975 to assimilate an as part of her studies. extensive collection of 20th Century Arash Fatemian 24 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

APPENDIX 1: CCESSIONS

s A y e v ar i h

Arc The list of accessions which follows constitutes the 32nd annual liament r a

P supplement to the Guide to the Records of Parliament (HMSO, 1971).

The Items marked with an asterisk are subject to public access restrictions. Some administrative records will be destroyed in accordance with agreed retention periods. Departmental Records HOUSE OF LORDS Black Rod’s Office Staff Superintendent’s office files, 1981-2000 (7 boxes)* Office files, 1992-2001 (18 boxes)* Clerk Assistant ITSG Papers on attendance and voting, 1991-2001 (1 box)* Clerk of the Parliaments’ Office Queen’s reply to the Golden Jubilee addresses, 30 April 2002 (1 file) Presentation copy of Staff News (special edition spring 2002) (1 volume) Whips & All Party Notices, 2000-2002 (2 files) Committee Office Records of the following committees: *(except for memoranda reported but not printed) Delegated Powers and Deregulation Committee: Numbered papers, 1999-2001 (7 boxes) European Union Committee: European Union Committee sub-committee E meetings papers, 2001-2002 (6 boxes) Science and Technology Committee: Agendas, minutes and meetings files, 1999-2001(1 box, 2 files) Select Committee on the Public Service: Meetings papers, 1996-1997 (3 boxes) Computer Office Hereditary Peers computer files, 1994-2000 (3 boxes)* Journal and Information Office Ballot papers from by-election to elect a hereditary peer, 25-26 March 2003 (2 boxes)* Information Office files, 1996-2002 (2 boxes)* Video of ‘The Lords’Tale’ (Documentary by Molly Dineen on the House of Lords, broadcast on Sunday 3 November 2002 on Channel 4) (1 item) Evidence given to the Group Appointed to consider how the Working Practices of the House can be Improved, January 2002 (1 file) Judicial Office Appeal Cases 2000-2001 (133 Volumes) ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 25

Leader of the House and Government Chief Whip Desk instructions for the Leader of the House, 1994-1998 (1 file)* House of Lords Library Deposited papers, 1998-2000 (35 boxes)* Printed Paper Office Laying papers 2001-2002 (93 boxes) Transport and Works Order deposited plan, 2001 (1 plan) Private Bill Office Plans, 1999-2002 (10 plans) Transport and Works Act Orders and plans 2002; Certificate proof copies of Acts 1990-1991 and 1999-2002 (2 boxes and 2 plans) Transport and Works Act Order plans (5 plans) Public Bill Office Bills that did not receive , 1999-2001 (2 boxes) House bills, 1999-2000 (9 boxes) Public Bill files, 2000-2001 (9 boxes) Public Bill Sessional Statistics, 2001-2002 (1 file) Refreshment Department Financial records, 1987-2002(51 boxes)*

HOUSE OF COMMONS Committee Office Records of the following committees: *(except for memoranda reported but not printed) Joint Committee on Financial Services and Joint Committee on Tax Simplification: papers 1998-2001 (1 box) Culture, Media and Sport Committee: Memoranda reported but not printed, 2002 (2 files) Education and Skills Committee: Memoranda reported but not printed, 2002 (6 files) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee: Memoranda reported but not printed, 2002 (3 files) Environmental Audit Committee: Unprinted papers, committee papers, printed memoranda, memoranda reported but not printed and background papers, 1999-2002 (17 boxes) Environmental Audit Committee: Committee papers, Printed memoranda, Memoranda reported but not printed, 1999-2001 European Scrutiny Committee: Scrutiny files, 1992-2001 (73 boxes) Health Committee: Committee papers, correspondence and general papers, memoranda reported but not printed 1997-2002 (8 boxes and 3 files) 26 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

Home Affairs Committee: Committee papers, Memoranda reported but not printed, 1990-2001 (19 boxes) Information Committee: Memoranda reported but not printed, 2002 (1 file) International Development Committee: Memoranda reported but not printed, 2002 (11 files) Public Accounts Committee: Confidential committee papers and committee papers, 1980-2000 (14 boxes) Science and Technology Committee: Memoranda reported but not printed, 2002 (4 files) Scottish Affairs Committee: Committee papers, 1999-2000 (3 boxes) Select Committee on Public Administration: Memoranda reported but not printed, 2002 (2 files) Treasury Committee: Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2002-2003 (1 file) Welsh Affairs Committee: Committee papers, Memoranda reported but not printed, 1979-2002 (3 boxes) Finance and Administration Fees Office and other records including: quarterly account ledgers 1916-1945 & 1946-1953; petrol coupons issue ledger 1956-1957; Speakers Art Fund accounts 1963-1972; ledger of photographs and maps 1916-1972 (3 boxes) House of Commons Commission House of Commons Commission papers: Recommendations of the Administration Committee, 1980-1986 and Establishment Office, 1986-1989; Staff Inspector reports 1980-1989 (4 boxes)* Office files, 1976-1990 (7 boxes)* Services Committee files, 1966-1980 (6 boxes)* Journal Office Minute book pages for the Chamber and Westminster Hall; top copies of petition prayers, 2000-2002 (1 box) Private Bill Office Supplement and Appendix to Votes/Private Bill Reports 1841-1980; Register of Private Bills 1980-1997; records of the Committee of Selection 1968-2001; plans and associated documents c. 1989-2001; Bill files c.1994-2002; Briefs for the Chair 1959-1997; office files c.1924-1994 (8 crates, 11 boxes and 7 plans)* Private Business Notice Papers, 1847-1945 (103 volumes) Public Bill Office Public Bills for session 2001-2002, May 2001-December 2002 (7 boxes) Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) Research material, 1989-1999 (60 boxes)* ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003 27

Other records relating to Parliament Letters concerning the burning of the Houses of Parliament, 1834-1835. Purchased. Britain in Europe papers, 1975. Gift. Report of two speeches by Charles James Fox, 1784. Purchased. Papers relating to the Houses of Parliament, 19th – 20th cent. Purchased. Papers relating to Aylesbury election,1857-1859. Letters to John Yeoman, 1953-1969. Purchased. Letter from Henry Thomas to Evan Lloyd, 13 April 1786 relating to electoral matters at Weobley, 1786. Purchased. Text of proceedings in the House of Commons, 1607. Purchased. Correspondence of Lord Shackleton, 20th century. * Correspondence and papers of Thomas Erskine May, 1834-1913. Purchased. Letter from the Duke of Wellington to the Earl of Lucan, 1832. Purchased. Shorthand notebooks of the trial of Warren Hastings; diaries, correspondence, minutes, press cuttings, journals, accounts and other papers of Gurneys, 18th - 20th cent. Loan. Peerage Cases, 18th century-20th century. Gift. 28 ANNUAL REVIEW 2002–2003

APPENDIX 2: TAFF OF THE ARLIAMENTARY RCHIVES

s S P A y e v ar i h Arc liament r Clerk of the Records Assistant Archive Officers a P Stephen Ellison, BA, MSc John Breslin

The Stephen Noble, BA (to 27 October 2002) Assistant Clerks of the Records Leanne Traynor Dutton, BA David Prior, BA, MPhil, RMSA (Temporary from 28 October 2002 Caroline Shenton, MA, DPhil, to 2 February 2003) DipARM, RMSA Colin Rudkin, BSc (from 3 February 2003) Frances Grey,BA Conservation Officers House of Lords Freedom of Information Officer (Seconded by the British Library) Frances Grey,BA Paul Slapp (Manager part-time) Archivist Brian Hopkins Katharine Bligh, BA, RMSA Lois Jolly Ray Rackham Records Manager Mark Naylor Paul Gibbons, BA, MSc Econ, RMSA Kathy McCarthy (to 7 October 2002) Archives Officer Fred Pace Robert Harrison, BA Tom McCarthy (from 8 October 2002) Secretary Reprographic Officers Annie Pinder (Seconded by The Stationery Office) Stephen Chamberlain Assistant Archivist/Records Manager Carol Ager Mari Takayanagi, MA (Oxon), MA, David Trowbridge RMSA Repository Housekeepers Assistant Archivists Gwen Neenham (Automation Project) Madeline Cross Michele Losse, BA, MA Denise Johnson Jennie Lynch, BA, MSc Econ Nick White, BA, MA, DipAA, RMSA Monica Halpin, BA, MA, RMSA, AKC Leanne Traynor Dutton, BA (Temporary from 29 July-27 October 2002; 3 February-31 March 2003)

PHOTOGRAPHS: Geremy Butler (pp.8, 9, 10, 11, 23),Terry Moore (p.5), Deryc Sands (p.2), Parliamentary Archives (pp.12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23)