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Annual Review 2006–2007

London: The Stationery Office

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Review of the year that ended 31 March 2007

‘ he has a new name now, to make clear the fact that it is only half ours and half a part of the TCommons. They held special tours and a most interesting exhibition of their work in connection with their anniversary. What a treasure trove of historic materials they hold; it was very interesting to see.’

This generous and unexpected name in the memory of , business check by of Berkeley in the inefficiencies and weaknesses in corporate Christmas 2006 adjournment debate in accountability. the House of provided a welcome Less than ten years ago the business sense of the success of a fortnight of of holding and providing access to our events and activities designed to mark traditional archives was largely self the 60th anniversary of the office, and contained. By contrast a strong theme of the formal adoption of a new name. this review is the essentiality of mutual The name change better reflects the dependencies in the digital age. We see work that the Parliamentary Archives the value and increasingly the necessity of undertakes for and on behalf of both partnership working with our stakeholders, Houses in their core tasks of providing the internal and external collaboration, and public with information and access, and the need to acquire external expertise to maintaining the heritage and collections. supplement our knowledge and skills. The It is a time of opportunity and considerable essential message of “Archives fortnight” challenge for records managers and archivists for parliamentary staff was the influential as Parliament increasingly operates in a role everyone has in managing the records digital environment and enhances its they create; the file in the in tray or the public-facing information and outreach e-mail in the mail box today, may one day services. A continuing responsibility for be a significant part of the historical record, traditional analogue archive resources is but if not, approved procedures for their being joined with the need to sustain access destruction or deletion should be followed. to digital information assets whether born During the year a three year project for digital or digitised from analogue sources creating the Authorised Records Disposal and all sorts of content created for the Practice for Parliamentary records was internet. This annual review describes the signed off by the Clerks of both Houses. steps we are taking to address the future The disposal practice provides guidance management and preservation of digital to staff on when records can be disposed information assets. If we do not take action of either by destruction after a stated to address these issues we risk a black hole time or transfer to the Parliamentary Archives for permanent preservation.

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This was a substantial achievement for to considerable media interest a preliminary the records management team, record version of an online resource Parliament and officers throughout both Houses and the British Slave Trade 1600‑1807 many other staff who were involved in (www.parliament.uk/slavetrade). extensive consultation. Work is underway Excellent progress was made in the first in connection with the bicameral electronic year of a two year Portcullis II project, document and records management a follow‑up to the initial five-year project to adapt the business classification automation project of 2000-2005, which scheme and other records management is identifying and describing a long tools for full electronic working. term backlog of uncatalogued material Enhancements to our public services and in the Parliamentary Archives. outreach developments have taken place As ever our collective achievements are against a background of increased public mainly due to the hard work, commitment demand for online services and more and creativity of our staff whose readiness to ambitious goals for connecting the work of develop their knowledge and skills enabled Parliament with the public. The Parliamentary us to keep pace with the requirements of Archives has an increasingly coherent focus our users and to take on new challenges. for its contribution to a wider public access agenda and to information and knowledge Future priorities are to: management initiatives as a constituent part • Support the bicameral EDRM Project of the Lords’ Department of Information advising on records management Services. Under the leadership of its requirements for pilots and developing Director, Dr Elizabeth Hallam Smith, the metadata standards. department is utilising synergies in the work of complementary but distinct • Conduct an options appraisal for digital information professionals in developing preservation in Parliament and identify business partnerships and cross-cutting digital records and other assets which working between its component offices, will require long-term preservation. which include the Library and the • Develop a digitisation strategy to Information Office, and across Parliament. support the preservation and The Information Committee, a select accessibility of records. committee of the House, has sympathetic oversight of the work of the combined • Mark the bicentenary of the Abolition services, which also support the Lord of the Slave Trade Act 1807 with the ’s developing outreach role. launch of an interactive microsite, and the tercentenary of the Act of Union Much of the year was spent developing key with 1707 with an exhibition projects that will materialise in 2007/8. to be viewed in the and These included detailed preparations for the . marking the bicentenary of the Act for abolishing Britain’s slave trade and the • Develop plans for marking the 50th tercentenary of the Act of Union with anniversary of the Life Peerages Act Scotland. On 25 March 2007, the 200th 1958 with an exhibition and website. anniversary of the passing of the which Stephen Ellison abolished Britain’s slave trade, we launched Clerk of the Records

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Supporting Parliament by safeguarding and providing ready access to its records

Aims • providing a records management and • ensuring compliance of the House of archive service for each House of Lords’ administration with Freedom of Parliament and making the archives Information and Data Protection accessible to the public. legislation.

Key objectives support delivery of five core tasks: Records management Access and Outreach • to develop, implement and sustain • to provide an up-to-date catalogue of policies for a best practice and corporate the archives conforming to recognised approach to the management of the professional standards. current records of each House of • to provide a public service for the Parliament. inspection and copying of records, and • to develop, implement and sustain the answering of enquiries. policies for compliance of the House of • to promote awareness of the archives Lords’ administration with the Freedom and history of Parliament as a core of Information Act and the Data resource for research, lifelong learning Protection Act. and leisure, and to support public Selection and Acquisition engagement with Parliament. • to ensure that records created or held by e-Delivery Parliament which are worthy of • to deliver services electronically where preservation are selected for the archives, this will provide a substantial benefit and to acquire other records that to users, whether inside or outside contribute significantly to understanding Parliament. of the history and workings of Parliament. Preservation • to preserve the archives in all formats in accordance with recognised professional standards. • to assist preservation of the archives by their conservation and the creation of surrogate copies.

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Records management

he priority for the Parliamentary records management Tprogramme was to convert policy into sustainable practice. The completion of the Authorised Records being provided to staff. Visits to five Disposal Practice in 2006 marked a change departments/offices were carried out in focus for the Records Management between October 2006 and March 2007. Team; previously resources had been concentrated on the development and roll Raising awareness out of suitable records management policies Amongst events to publicise the renaming and procedures to meet business needs. of the Archives and to promote its services, With the completion of these tools, the the Records Management Team piloted Team was able to devote more attention to walking throughout all departments reviewing the effectiveness and consistency and offices in both Houses. The opportunity of records management controls throughout to raise awareness of the programme and to each House, and ensuring that staff receive afford staff support in a more informal the support and guidance that they need for context proved to be popular with staff, the management of records in their area. and bi-annual floor walking has now been Survey and field visits integrated into the Team’s regular programme of work. An eye-catching The Records Management Team undertook poster was displayed across the a survey by questionnaire of all heads of office, record officers and a third of staff of each House to assess broadly the records management needs of each office prior to the launch of a rolling programme of departmental field visits. The survey found that senior managers and staff were supportive of records management and there was good overall appreciation of the ways in which effective record-keeping should support parliamentary business. The need for records management policies and procedures to be applied more consistently across departments and offices was also highlighted by respondents. A programme of regular field visits was then launched with the dual purpose of ensuring that best practice was being embedded in office processes and that the appropriate level of support was

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to underline the benefits for staff of effective management of records. Electronic document and records management The Parliamentary Archives continued to represent the records management interests of both Houses on the bicameral Electronic Document and Records Management (EDRM) Project Board, which was set up to consider the most effective way of taking EDRM forward and to identify suitable areas for pilot applications. During the year continued on developing a series of short a ‘sandpit’ exercise was undertaken to guidance notes to be made available to identify the benefits of an EDRM system for staff through the Parliamentary intranet. Parliament. This introduced parliamentary staff from different business functions to Freedom of Information the concept of EDRM and provided the The Archives distinguishes between opportunity to use a live system in the ‘business as usual’ enquiries, which are context of their respective roles. Malcolm covered elsewhere in this Annual Review, Todd joined the Parliamentary Archives on and requests for information which secondment from The National Archives to may be held in closed records and are provide advice and specialist assistance treated as requests under Freedom of with pilot projects, as suitable areas were Information. During 2006–7 the Archives identified, and to draft the electronic records received a total of 24 requests which were management functional requirements logged on the House of Lords Freedom of for Parliament. Information tracking system. The material Training and seminars requested included Channel Tunnel Rail Link bill files, a Speaker’s Office file on The delivery of training and seminars the British-American Parliamentary was again a prominent feature of our Group in the 1970s, European Scrutiny records management advisory services. Committee material on pollution, and Departments of the a Works file on accommodation for the and offices of the House of Lords requested Leader of the Opposition in the 1970s. a variety of records management and Depositing offices/departments were function-specific disposal seminars. asked to review the relevant papers and as Records managers were often joined by a result the records were in 7 cases fully archivists in running training sessions that opened, in 4 cases partially opened, and covered the whole of the records life-cycle. in only 2 cases exempted from disclosure. Staff induction programmes for each The remaining eleven requests related House continued to feature a half-hour to material not held in the Archives session on records management. Work also or already in the public domain.

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Selection and acquisition

rrangements for the acquisition of records from Ainternal and external sources were reviewed further. The Collection and Acquisitions Policy which was first produced in 2005 was revised. This was principally to take account, in respect of internal transfers, of the completion of the Authorised Records Disposal Practice and also to address some anomalies which had become apparent since the launch of the policy. The second edition also takes account of our desire to acquire architectural and photographic records, which as well as images of members and staff, provide significant evidence of the appearance of the Parliamentary estate, ceremonial and other occasions. Deposits of Departmental records Deposits were from a range of internal departments, including the offices of the Clerk of the and the Clerk of the House, and Committee Offices of both Houses, ’s Office, and the . Amongst the latter were papers relating to applications for the post of Assistant Librarian dating from 1879. A flavour of the material is Requirements for the post of Assistant given by a document from March 1947, Librarian in the House of Lords, 1947 which stated that the Library Committee ‘consider that a man might be found, possibly Other acquisitions between the ages of 30 and 40, who is not entirely dependent on the amount of the salary or future There were significant acquisitions prospects, who has already had some kind of from sources outside Parliament. administrative experience, and whose literary The papers of Basil St.George Drennan tastes, knowledge of books, and desire for regular work might attract him to a post of this kind’. Basil St. George Drennan (1903-1976) worked for more than 30 years as a clerk in the House of Commons. He joined as an Assistant Clerk in 1926, and became Senior Clerk in 1940 and Principal Clerk

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The photographs and papers of Roland Boyes MP Roland Boyes (1937-2006) entered the House of Commons as MP for Houghton and Washington in 1983. Aware of the photographic achievements of Sir Benjamin Stone, who was MP for East between 1895 and 1909, Boyes set out to create a record of Parliamentary life in much the same way as Stone himself had done almost a century earlier. The result was People in Parliament: A Collection of Photographs by Roland Boyes MP, which was published in 1990 to considerable acclaim. Following in Stone’s footsteps, Boyes photographed both MPs and staff but in a more varied series of locations within the . After in 1948. Drennan was attached to several the completion of the project he embarked committees including the Select Committee upon another, this time addressing the on National Expenditure and the Select subject of women in Parliament. It did not Committee on Estimates. At other stages of prove possible to complete this because his career he was Clerk of Private Bills and Boyes was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Taxing Officer, and Examiner of Petitions disease and left Parliament in 1997. for Private Bills. He left the service of the House in 1960. ‘My father was very proud This acquisition complements our collection of his job right to the end of his life, so its very of photographs taken by Benjamin Stone appropriate that his papers should have returned and is a valuable resource for the study of to the Palace in this way’ said Bill Drennan, on life in Parliament in the late 20th century. donating his father’s papers to the Archives. A full list of accessions is provided in The Drennan Papers (DRE) consist Appendix 1. mainly of correspondence received and sent by Drennan, during his career as a parliamentary clerk and in his personal life. Some papers relate to select committee reports and there is some printed parliamentary material. The collection gives an insight into the professional and personal life of a distinguished parliamentary clerk and is a welcome addition to other collections already held, such as the papers of Sir Bryan Fell.

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Preservation

n recent years we have worked to diversify the work of the conservation studio in order to address directly the needs Iof the records. This in itself has meant that studio staff The Archives contacted Professor Paul encounter a wider range of items from Harvey, an expert on seals, who advised the collections and occasionally a few that leaves were found occasionally surprises. An interesting example this attached to the back of late medieval and year was an Act of 1663 for the confirming early modern seals impressed in sealing of four Subsidies granted by the Clergy, wax. He explained: ‘A frequent method of which staff examined during a routine impressing the wax was to hold the wax, softened check. The Act consists of several large by heating (immersion in hot water was one sheets of parchment stitched together way of doing this), in one hand, the matrix in which were folded inwards before being the other, and one thus often finds finger- and rolled. The Grant of the Clergy is affixed hand-prints on the wax. If the wax was too hot to the Act as the last sheet. Acts that have to hold comfortably, a leaf would be held in the other documents attached are relatively hand holding the wax, and parts of this leaf might rare, and the attention of the studio staff remain stuck to the seal. While a bit unusual, it was drawn to a red wax seal attached to the is not a rare phenomenon.’ Professor Harvey grant which had a leaf stuck to each side. also explained that the leaf would have prevented the wax sticking to the hand of the holder. Unfortunately, because the full shape of the leaves has not survived it has not proved possible to identify the tree from which they came 344 years ago. Digital Preservation Digital Preservation is the process of ensuring a digital resource remains authentic and accessible over time. The Parliamentary Archives’ mission is to safeguard the records of Parliament from their creation or receipt to their destruction or archiving and to maintain their accessibility – no matter what their format. The Archives has custody of over 500 years of Parliamentary records on parchment, paper, tape and photographic film. We now need to address the challenge of preserving digital records and other assets, such as digitised images, for the same length of time – in spite of rapid hardware and software obsolescence and the inevitable deterioration of storage media.

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In 2006, just 18% of UK organisations had • We are an associate member (as part of a strategy to deal with the risk of loss or the HL Department of Information degradation to their digital resources. Only Services) of the Digital Preservation a few have taken active steps to preserve Coalition, a UK consortium of archives, their digital records and other digital assets libraries and other bodies working permanently so that the business and together to find solutions to digital the public can access them in the future. preservation challenges. This provides Parliament is no different: the future of its us with potential partners for the future digital memory is at risk and Parliament’s and access to expert training events memory is a vital part of the Nation’s. and publications. The challenge of digital preservation across • We are in close contact with key the UK was recently highlighted by the personnel – some of them former Commons’ Select Committee on colleagues – at the National Archives Constitutional Affairs, which criticised the and other organisations developing Government for a lack of urgency over the digital preservation solutions, both issue, and in a report commissioned by the nationally and internationally. National Council on Archives, Your Data at • We are developing our internal Risk. The Digital Preservation Coalition’s expertise in digital preservation recent Mind the Gap report also noted many through attendance at various training of the same concerns picked up by the courses, seminars and conferences. Select Committee, particularly in the areas of a lack of forward planning and vision, A working group was set up under the and complacency in the face of rapid auspices of the Joint Libraries, Archives technological change. and Information Offices Working Group to develop a Digital Preservation Strategy During the year we took the for Parliament, consider the options following actions: for providing a digital repository for • Our business plan for 2007-2010 placed Parliament, undertake an audit of known digital preservation at the heart of our digital assets and identify those which objectives for the next three years. should be preserved permanently, and determine the financial and staff resources • We recruited a digital records specialist, required to develop and implement a digital on secondment from The National preservation programme. We are working Archives, to work on these issues with us. closely with the Libraries, the Internet • We are members of the EDRM project Project Board and PICT to strengthen the board, which recognises that such links between the information management systems should facilitate the selection, side of Parliament with and the information transfer and long-term preservation of systems and technology side. Only by authentic digital records and has doing this will we have the full range of identified dependencies. expertise to tackle digital preservation, and be able to undertake the actions • We worked, and continue to work, with required satisfactorily. A scoping report Parliamentary ICT (PICT) to identify from the group is due out in June 2007. areas in its programme which have digital preservation implications.

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Access and outreach

he popularity of Portcullis, our online catalogue, as a tool for online research Tinto our holdings continues to grow so that we are approaching 17 times the visits online each day than we can accommodate in the search room. The re-design of the entire Parliamentary website in autumn 2006 provided much greater access to the Archives’ pages, and many more opportunities for users to find Portcullis, as this graph indicates.

In March 2007, a software upgrade enabled Parliamentary Archives on the catalogue. us to improve the usability and design of In total some 124 jobs were identified, Portcullis in response to public feedback. ranging from small labelling jobs which This comprised: may take half a day to complete, to huge cataloguing projects which will take • an updated interface which reflects several months to list, import onto CALM the corporate design of the parliament. and ensure their long-term preservation. uk site Fifty-seven of these jobs were completed • better text size control for the visually during the year. Highlights included: impaired Cooke Papers (COO) • improved search facilities for names One of the first large cataloguing projects and subjects undertaken as part of Portcullis II was • hot links between names and the the papers of Sir Robert Cooke MP catalogue, and subjects and the (1930-1987). These records consisted catalogue, enabling much enhanced of papers relating to Sir Robert’s work browsing through and across collections as a member and as Special Adviser on the Palace of Westminster and his • live cross-referencing between personal collection of material which related records mainly concerned the Parliamentary • highlighting of the search terms in the Estate. These records include many list of hits plans, photographs and even wallpaper samples of the Palace of Westminster. • improved browsing of each collection list. Records of the trial of Warren Portcullis II Project Hastings (HL/PO/JO/10/7/771, 790-828) The Portcullis II project began in April The records of the trial of Warren 2006 as a follow-up to the initial five-year Hastings (1732-1818) held in Westminster automation project of 2000-2005. Its aim Hall between 1788 and 1795 are part of is to identify, evaluate and describe the the House of Lords Main Papers. The backlog of uncatalogued material in the

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House of Commons Establishments Office Records (HC/FA/EO) The large number of files deposited by the House of Commons Establishments Office in 1995 has been appraised retrospectively using the Authorised Records Disposal Practice. The majority of the records were not deemed suitable for permanent preservation. The records added to the catalogue cover subjects including recruitment, grading reviews, staff inspections and provision of computer services between the 1950s and the 1990s.

Evidence given at the trial of

cataloguing project has enhanced the existing rough descriptions, fully listing the evidence, proceedings and lists of the trial. Prisoners under sentence of death, STH/FS/2/5 Stow Hill Papers (STH) Records of trials of Peers The Papers of Frank Soskice, Stow (HL/PO/DC/CP/33) Hill (1902-1979) have been repackaged in archivally sound materials and the A number of records from the House of catalogue entries of the correspondence Lords Committee for Privileges concerning of Soskice himself have been improved. the trials of peers in Parliament have The records cover his work as a politician been catalogued for the first time. These and as a renowned QC, including papers include proceedings, correspondence, dealing with his appearances on behalf witness lists and statements and records of the Indian and Thai governments at relating to the staging of trials. They the International Court of the Hague, relate to the cases of individuals such as 1956-61. One of the more unusual the Duchess of Kingston, found guilty of items is a frame from Soskice’s office bigamy in 1776, William Byron, the 5th when he was which , charged with murder in holds sheets giving details of prisoners under sentence of death, 1953-1965.

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1760 and James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Room was closed for the usual fortnight of Cardigan who was prosecuted for in November for stocktaking, and a duel with one of his officers in 1841. occasionally for staff meetings and filming. Royal Commissions (HL/PO/JO/15) A total number of 5,685 items were produced for searchers (last year 6,873) representing The series of Royal Commissions dating an average of 5.5 orderable units per . from 1709 to 1877 have been individually There were 66 loans of documents to listed and re-housed in archive boxes. parliamentary offices (last year 60). Amongst the commissions was a issued by the There were 441 new searchers (last year of Ireland in 1800, a precursor to the 485) of whom 3% were from the media, Act of Union with Ireland, discovered 23% came for official or business purposes, complete with original seal. and 74% were pursuing research for academic or personal reasons. 49% were conducting Among the more esoteric records research into the 20th and 21st centuries, catalogued were a plaque presented to the 24% the 19th century, and the remaining Lord during a Parliamentary 27% used pre-1800 sources or did not specify. visit to South Korea and the hat worn by Edward, Prince of , on his Subjects being researched by new searchers introduction to the House of Lords in 1918. included genealogy (8%) and legal matters (12%). 3% were researching architectural Uncatalogued ‘main paper’ entries from issues including the transport of stone to 1916 to 1946 were keyed into electronic build the Palace of Westminster, the Great form from the House of Lords’ Journals Clock (Big Ben), and Westminster Hall in during the year, as well as entries for the . 7% of searchers declared an the House of Commons unprinted interest in Parliamentary history, which papers from 1976 to 1982. This data included the Parliaments of Henry VIII, will be imported into the system next Restoration Parliaments 1661-1678, the year. By the end of March 2007 there Great Fire of 1834, the power of the House of were 477,000 entries in our catalogue. Lords 1906-1911, and Parliamentary language. Public Services 9% were interested in local and regional Searchers issues, including the Severn flood of 1606/7, Holyhead Harbour, 19th and The annual number of Search Room visits 20th century canal communities, 19th fell for the second year in succession century Catholic education in Brighton, to 1,024 (last year 1,141). This trend is Trafalgar Square, East Shropshire canals by no means out of step with emerging and industry, the construction of patterns in other repositories and should Bridge and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link. be seen in the context of changing patterns of research; for instance, the Contemporary issues were the subject of online catalogue now enables users to research for 10% of searchers including identify material in advance of their visits dentistry, the EU Urban Water Directive, or order copies by e-mail. The Search airports in the London area, counter

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fraud legislation, urban wildlife and Searcher profiles animal control, Welsh and Scottish , and pop music classification. Alice Hogge The remaining 51% of new searchers Alice Hogge has been a regular visitor to pursued a wide range of general historical the Parliamentary Archives for more than subjects. Twentieth century topics included a year, researching for a book with the the foundation of the NHS, suffragettes, working title Mr Barry’s Pleasure Dome: or, British public debate on the Vietnam What Happened When Westminster got Fresco war, the Labour party and the USA 1945- Fever. Alice is using artists’ letters, architects’ present, political reaction to the TV satire reports, Parliamentary Papers and show That Was The Week That Was, Harold to investigate what happened when the Fine Wilson’s special advisers 1974-1976 and Arts Commission decided to commission the provision of books to the armed frescos for the new Palace of Westminster services in the Second World War. after the old Palace burnt down in 1834. This was a controversial decision as the Pre-20th century topics included many frescoes started flaking off within months. people researching different aspects of Alice is placing this subject within the wider the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, context of Victorian art at this time, and Jack the Ripper, the privilege of keeping is finding fascinating parallels with today. gun dogs, the execution of Charles I, 17th century petitions, the South Sea Bubble, 18th century divorce, memories of the Civil War and the , 17th century naval history, inheritance in the 17th and 18th centuries, conscience in early modern , occupations in 18th century London, the War of Jenkins’s Ear, 18th century opera and the Grand Tour, and madness in 18th century London. Subjects for biographical studies included the 16th century explorer Sir Humphrey Gilbert, department store owner Gordon Selfridge, antiquarian and politician Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, lawyer and scholar , Speaker of the House of Commons William Court Gully, architect Robert Adam and the writer and journalist Rebecca West.

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Ian Westworth had doubled since 2004 to 4%, and the proportion of our searchers from ethnic minorities had more than doubled to 14%. • We continued to do well in our traditional areas of strength, rating above London and national statistics in areas such as the quality of advice given by staff, document delivery, the friendliness and helpfulness of staff, the copying service and our service overall. For the first time the website was also rated highly.

Ian Westworth, the Palace Clock Mechanic, visited the Parliamentary Archives to research the history of the bells and the Great Clock. Ian said ‘It proved to be a great insight into the history. We found out that the problem we were working on had been trouble since the clock was made. The very work we were doing had been done 50 years ago too.’ • The trend in the purpose of visit away from employment to study/ National Survey of to research continued. Personal usage British Archives remained steady. • Socio-economic profiling using postcodes shows our typical UK searcher was aged between 20 and 44, a homeowner with a young family, highly educated, not religious, and was employed full-time in finance or business, as a professional or manager. In February 2006, the Archives participated for the sixth Remote enquiries time in the PSQG (Public Services Quality Staff answered a total of 3,784 remote Group) National Survey of Visitors to British enquiries which were logged on our enquiry Archives, and the results and analysis were database (last year 3,523). Of these, 41% received this year. The findings included: were answered within 1 working day and • Our searchers were more diverse. 98% were answered within 10 working Although small in numbers, the days. An average of 15.4 enquiries was proportion of searchers with disabilities answered per working day. The number

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of e-mail enquiries continued to increase for the development of larger scale from 2,373 to 2,581 a year. There were digitisation which will deliver benefits in also 1,775 ‘quick’ enquiries handled by terms of access as well as preservation. telephone and email, a daily average of 7.2. Promoting the archives and history Facilitating remote access of Parliament Record Your Place in History In November 2006, a fortnight of events and activities was held under the banner Record Your Place in History to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the House of Lords Record Office and to publicise its renaming as the Parliamentary Archives, with a new logo reflected in stationery and promotional materials. The fortnight was successful in meeting its primary objectives. After the fortnight there was widespread awareness of the name change; improved appreciation amongst parliamentary staff that the Archives is concerned with all aspects of the life cycle of records from their creation and effective management in offices to their destruction or permanent archiving; and greater awareness amongst Members and their staff of the work of the Archives. In order to meet more fully the demands of our customers an overhead digital camera was installed at the end of the year. This will enable capture of colour digital images of documents that are not suitable for copying by other means. It also provides the essential infrastructure

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Prominent amongst events in the first week was a seminar chaired by Paul Seaward, Director of the History of Parliament Trust, at which Paul Hayter, Clerk of the Parliaments, House of Lords and Jacqy Sharpe, Clerk of the Journals, House of Commons reflected on the changes they had witnessed in Parliament during their long careers in each House. (For the transcript see ‘Westminster, Past and Present’, The Table: The Journal of the Society of Clerks-at-the-Table in Commonwealth Parliaments, Volume 75 (2007).

Other activities such as the daily tours of the archives and conservation studio provided parliamentary staff with a unique insight into the work of the office and how it was linked to their own work creating and using records earlier in the lifecycle. A photograph competition, A Sense In the second week the key event was of Place, encouraged people to record the week long exhibition For the Record: a ‘behind-the-scenes’ snapshot of a Preserving the Archives of Parliament and week in the life of the Parliamentary Parliamentarians, which was held in the administrations for preservation as a Upper Waiting Hall in conjunction visual record. The winning photograph with the Churchill Archives Centre amongst thirty-eight entries captured a and the History of Parliament Trust. view of the House of Lords Refreshment Department during service. The exhibition was opened by the Prime Minister, , and attendees included Lady Thatcher, whose own papers were featured in the exhibition.

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During Service I by Victoria Russell – the winning entry in the Sense of Place competition.

Other competition entries are featured on this page

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Members, staff, contractors and visitors contributed their favourite memory of Parliament on flyers in response to an invitation to ‘record your place in history’. Vivid personal memories included Nelson Mandela’s address to both Houses of Parliament, State Openings, meeting the Queen, Westminster Hall and the seizure by of the Mace in the House of Commons. Other activities included a quiz which tested everyone’s knowledge of Parliament with answers readily accessible by searching our catalogue, Portcullis, and a display in the Royal Gallery which featured iconic Parliamentary documents. Two former Clerks of the Records were interviewed as part of an oral history project run by the House of Commons. The tapes will be added to the Sound Archive at the British Library.

Parliament and the British Slave The 1806 petition from trade 1600-1807 against the slave trade which contains Preparations were made during the year over 2,000 names to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade, an Act The website was intended as a preliminary for which was passed on 25 March 1807. version of a larger site to be launched in Central to these preparations was the May 2007. The producer for both sites is the launch on 25 March 2007 of a website 24 Hour Museum. featuring two petitions from Manchester Our plans to mark the abolition anniversary in 1806 – one in favour of abolition, were described by David Prior at a conference and one against. These petitions were held in October at the Museum in Docklands. transcribed by Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society to enable name Media use searching and the site generated immediate Visits to the office by the media included responses from family historians who the following: found the names of ancestors on them. One commented: ‘Thank you very much for Ian Hislop was filmed with the Army publishing this. I feel very proud and humble now’. Act 1881. Lion TV filmed Lloyd George correspondence for a documentary on the grandchildren of .

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The BBC filmed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act for a programme which featured Moira Stuart in conversation with Professor James Walvin. The actor Kwame Kwei-Armah described his reactions to viewing the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act for a programme about the slave trade.

BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time programme recorded Lord Bragg and William Hague in conversation about and the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act 1807. Juniper TV filmed material for a BBC4 programme on ‘The Edwardians,’ presented by Dan Snow. Sky News filmed the Honours (Prevention Talks of Abuses) Act 1925 and the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000. Staff gave talks about the archives to the following groups: Blue Badge Guides, The BBC World and BBC Scotland filmed the Charlbury Society, Discovering London, Act of Union with Scotland 1707. Global Eyes and Boston University Student Programmes, Institute of Historical Research, Kingston Decorative and Fine Arts Society, London Appreciation Society, Temple Bar Scholars and staff from . Talks about the work of the office were also given to staff on induction courses in both Houses, and to Commons’ staff of the Scrutiny Unit, Vote Office and the Department of Finance and Administration. Clerks and Officers visited from overseas

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Parliaments including British Columbia, Amongst other visitors were archivists from , Ghana, Japan and Western , Hamburg and the Australia. Malaysian parliamentarians Netherlands; Cynthia Copeland (New viewed the Malaysia Act 1963. Historical Society), Ray Shah (thinkdesign) and Jon Pratty (24 Hour Museum); a group Members of both Houses who visited from King’s Langley WEA; students on the the archives this year included The Lord post-graduate archive courses at Liverpool Speaker, Lord Attlee, Lord Bilimoria, University and the University of Wales, Baroness David, Lord Ezra, Lord Lee Aberystwyth, and Samir Patel, a fellowship of Trafford, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, intern with the HM Treasury. Chris Mullin MP, Brooks Newmark MP, Lord Taylor of Holbeach and Lord Teverson. Parliamentarians whose guests visited included Lord Acton, Simon Burns MP, Lord Craigavon, MP and Bob Spink MP.

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e-Delivery

lectronic delivery of services is now at the centre Eof all our work. Use of technology to improve information users to pay for copies of records, management inside the Archives and across images and media use of our collections Parliament as a whole has profoundly by credit or debit card online, rather changed the work that we need to do and the than having to pay in cash or sterling way that we do it. Many of the developments cheque. The pilot proved very popular in this area which took place during the with overseas users in particular, and year have already been described in this also with staff whose time spent dealing Review, because e‑delivery cuts across all with such transactions was much areas of activity in the Archives – whether reduced. This method of payment will that is electronic records management, be made permanent from April 2007. online cataloguing, the ever increasing • Regular monitoring of online resources number of e-mail enquiries we answer, including Wikipedia, the National Register improving our digital copying capabilities, of Archives, the online Oxford Dictionary of exploiting the internet for outreach Biography and other key websites to ensure purposes, or understanding how to information about us is up-to-date and preserve digital records. Activities not links are not broken. mentioned elsewhere included: • Inclusion of websites and a range of • Further developments to our web pages, electronic media in the schedule of including routine updates, enhanced charges for commercial use of images FAQs, and some more gallery features. from the Archives in our new licensing • Between October 2006 and March 2007 agreement. a successful e-commerce pilot using Paypal was run. This enabled remote

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Governance and resources

he Parliamentary Archives is one of several offices that constitute the Clerk of the Parliaments’ Department T(the Parliament Office) of the House of Lords. The Parliamentary Archives reports to During the year we welcomed Richard the Director of Information Services Burman from the Archive Network who represents those services of the Wales as Assistant Archivist working on House on the Management Board. the Portcullis II project to March 2008; and Michael Plant and Catrin Holland We support the work of the administrations as graduate trainees working on the of both Houses and operate as a joint service Portcullis II project and in the public services of Parliament with budgeted costs shared team respectively, prior to undertaking by the Lords and Commons in the ratio their respective postgraduate courses in of 60:40. The Archives operates within Archives and Records Management at UCL the discipline of House of Lords planning, and the University of Wales. Also joining financial and risk management structures. were Shona Robertson as Assistant Records Each autumn it produces a three-year Manager from the UCL postgraduate business and financial plan shaped by the course and Bina Sudra as an Assistant strategic priorities of the House of Lords’ Archives Officer. We were grateful to administration, which supports drafting The National Archives for enabling the of the administration’s high level business secondment of Malcolm Todd as a Digital plan. The House of Lords Information Records Specialist to support our work on Committee, a Select Committee of the the EDRM project and digital preservation. House, has oversight of our work. During the year we also hosted the part- Financial and other information about time secondment of Verity Sandles from the Parliamentary Archives set in the the Parliamentary Education Service. context of its place in the House of Lords In accordance with service agreements administration is given in House of Lords specialist support continued to be provided Annual Report 2006/07 (HL paper 162) by staff seconded from the British Library and in House of Lords Resource Accounts for conservation services and from The 2006/07 (HL paper 163). Reference to Stationery Office for reprographic services. our support for work of the House of Commons Service is made in Twenty‑ninth We lost two stalwarts of our repository team. report of the House of Commons Commission Sadly Madeline Cross died after a long illness Financial Year 2006/07 (HC paper 708). fought bravely and Gwen Neenan retired. These documents are accessible at www. parliament.uk or are available in hard Professional Activities copy from The Stationery Office. Kimberly Barata was appointed the Reviews Staff Editor of the Journal of the Society of Archivists. She also served on the editorial The permanent staff complement was board of Library & Archival Security, and as an unchanged with nine archivists and expert evaluator for the European records managers and four support staff. Commission Directorate-General Information Society.

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Stephen Ellison served on the UK Political of London, on the subject of ‘Parliament & Parties and Parliamentary Archives Women, c. 1886-1939.’ She gave a seminar Group and as an active member of the at the IHR on ‘The Passage of the Sex Section of Archives and Archivists of Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919’ in Parliaments and Political Parties of the October 2006 and a conference paper International Council on Archives. on the same subject at a postgraduate conference on ‘Women’s Employment in Frances Grey served on the Legislation 20th Century Britain’ at the British Postal Sub-Committee of the Society of Archivists Museum & Archive in March 2007. She and as an executive committee member of also acts as an assessor for the Society the Society’s Records Management Group. of Archivists’ Registration Scheme. Jennie Lynch was secretary of the Society Malcolm Todd co-chaired the Policy group of Archivists’ Archives for Education of the InterPARES2 project (International and Learning Group from July 2006. Research into Permanent Records in She is mentoring a candidate on the Electronic Systems), based at the University Society of Archivists’ Registration of British Columbia, Vancouver until Scheme and a student undertaking the January 2007. From February 2007, he distance learning postgraduate course became chair, in a personal capacity, of in Archives and Records Management the DLM Forum’s review group of experts run by the University of Dundee. advising the European Commission on David Prior served as a director and the development of a new European treasurer of Archives for London Ltd, the standard, MoREQ2 for managing digital London archives body which provides an records. He also served on the review independent voice for the Capital’s archive panel of the Digital Curation Manual practitioners and users. He gave a talk maintained by the Digital Curation Centre, to the Newman Society London Circle Glasgow and the Editorial Advisory in Hendon about the . Board of the Records Management Journal. Caroline Shenton continued as chair of Work placements and Typists the CALM/EAD special interest group and as an assessor for the Society of To support the Portcullis II cataloguing Archivists’ Registration Scheme. During project we used 9 work placement the year she analysed the impact of the volunteers to help us with associated 2000-2005 automation project in articles labelling, listing and packaging work. for Recordkeeping magazine and the Journal of Typists Brenda Askar and Fiona Johnson, the Society of Archivists, published an article stalwarts of the 2000-2005 automation in Apollo on a fourteenth-century heraldic project, returned for nine months to help manuscript, and lectured on Parliamentary us convert descriptions of the House of sources at University College London. Lords main papers 1916-1946, and the House of Commons unprinted papers Mari Takayanagi is studying for a part- 1976-1982 from paper to electronic form. time MPhil/PhD History degree at the This data is now ready for import into Institute of Historical Research, University Portcullis. We are grateful to all of them.

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appendix 1: Accessions Departmental Records HOUSE OF LORDS Black Rod’s Office (HL/BR) Office files including audits, accommodation, works, finance, and information technology, 1988-2000 (1 box) House of Lords Pass books for Strangers’ Gallery visitors c1990-2006 (2 books) Act of Union Bicentenary Exhibition 2001 and Westminster Hall: Millennium/ Votes for the future exhibition 1996-2001 (2 files) Various office files relating to the State Opening of Parliament, Peers and Peeresses, the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, HL Offices Committee, Administration and Works Sub-Committee, Finance and Staff, 1999-2003, (1 box) Clerk of the Parliaments Office (HL/PO/CP) Ballot papers, House of Lords Speakership election, July 2006 (1 file) for new Peers, 2006 (1 file) Two colour photographs of House of Lords Table Clerks, 2000-2003 (2 items) Committee Office (HL/CP and HL/PO/CO) Meeting papers, 2005 (3 boxes) Records of the following committees: Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill Committee (HL/PO/CO/AD): Meeting papers and interim circulations, 2004-2005 (3 boxes) (HL/PO/CO/CN): Meeting circulations and minutes, 2004-2006 (4 boxes) Economic Affairs Committee (HL/PO/CO/EA): Meeting papers and circulations. 2005-2006 (2 boxes) (HL/PO/CO/EU): EU sub-committee D, Numbered papers, memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (9 boxes, 1 file); EU sub-committee F, Numbered papers, 2004-2005 (2 boxes); EU sub- committee A, Numbered meeting papers and interim circulations, 2005‑2006 (12 boxes); EU sub-committee B, Committee papers, meeting papers and interim circulations, 2004-2005 (3 boxes) Finance Bill sub-committee (HL/PO/CO/EA/FB): Numbered meeting files and interim circulations, 2006 (1 box) Merits of Statutory Instruments Committee (HL/PO/CO/SI): Numbered papers, agendas and minutes, 2005-2006 (2 boxes) Procedure Committee (HL/PO/CO/PR): Committee proceedings, 1963-1980 (6 volumes) Religious Offences Committee (HL/PO/CO/RO): Meeting papers, 2002-2003 (2 boxes) Review of the BBC Charter Committee (HL/PO/CO/BB): Meeting papers and circulations, correspondence, 2005-2006 (7 boxes)

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Science and Technology Committee (HL/PO/CO/ST): Committee background papers on science and technology in Local Government, biotechnology, forensic science, digital imaging, fishing etc, 1979-2004 (3 boxes) Speakership of the House Committee: Agendas, minutes, numbered papers, 2003‑2005 (3 boxes) Stem Cell Research Committee (HL/PO/CO/SC): Numbered and unnumbered papers 2001-2002, (3 boxes) Computer Office Computer office files, files relating to computer systems and individual offices, 1989-1994 (1 box) Domestic Committees (HL/PO/DC) Library and Computing Sub-committee (HL/PO/DC/OF/LC): Correspondence, meeting papers and interim circulations 1997-2005 (1 box) Human Resources (HL/PO/EO) House of Lords Staff Handbook, 2007 (1 volume) Journal Office (HL/PO/JO) Main Papers, 2005-2006 (59 boxes and one rolled plan) Sessional Statistics – Members attendances, 2005-2006 (1 file) Sessional Statistics – Relating to the business of the House. Includes the composition of the House at the end of session 2005-2006 (1 file) Sessional Statistics – Members voting records, 2005-2006 (1 file) Divisions and attendance sheets, messages to the Lords, 2003-2004 (1 file) House of Lords Membership and Attendances, 1995-1996 (1 file) Numbered papers, agendas, minutes from the Leader’s Group on Working Practices and records on electronic publishing, logos, the website etc, 1995-2004 (3 boxes) Commissions of , 2006-2007 (13 items) Commission appointing Lord Hoffman second Senior Law Lord, 11 January 2007 (1 item) Commission from Queen thanking House of Lords for 80th birthday wishes, April 2006 (1 item) Acknowledgement of expression of thanks from Parliament for State Opening speech, 2006 (1 item) Library (HL/PO/LB) Envelopes and loose sheets of paper regarding applications for the post of Assistant Librarian, 1879-1969, (1 box) Overseas Office Secretarial Papers, 1998-2002 (1 box) Files, 1998-2004 (1 box) Conference papers and miscellaneous, 1983-2004 (1 box)

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Private Bill Office (HL/PO/PB) Statutory Instruments orders, plans, sections, books of reference and correspondence (Transport and Works Act 1992), 2005-2006: SI 2006 No. 3471 – Network Rail (West Coast Main Line) (Stowe Hill) Order; SI 2005 No.3523) – Cambridgeshire Guided Busway Order; SI 2006 No. 1518 – Port of Blyth (Battleship Wharf Railway) Order; SI 2006 No. 3118 – Luton Dunstable Translink Order; SI 2005 No. 3105 – Docklands Light Railway Order; SI 2006 No. 2310 – of Poole (Poole Harbour Opening Bridges) Order; SI 2006 No. 1691 – and Blaenavon Railway (Phase I) Order; SI 2006 No. 405 – Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) Order. Public Bill Office (HL/PO/PU) Vellums (Chapters 1-24), 2005 (5 boxes) Bill files, Bills that did not receive Royal Assent, Private members bills correspondence, 1993-2005 (21 boxes) Parliamentary Archives (HL/PO/RO) Annual Review, 2005-2006 (1 file) Correspondence, instructions etc, 1999-2001 (1 box) Record Your Place in History: Sense of Place Photography Competition entries, memory cards and marketing material, 20 November-1 December 2006 (1 box & 1 photograph box)

HOUSE OF COMMONS Clerk of the House (HC/CL/CH) Office files, relating to evidence (general), leaks, red book, reports and following up recommendations, 1969-2001 (1 box) Committee Office (HC/CP and HC/CL/CO) Records of the following committees: Communities and Local Government Committee (HC/CL/CO/DV): Agendas and informal notes, memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2006-2007 (10 files) Culture, Media and Sport Committee (HC/CL/CO/DE): Minutes of proceedings (unpublished), memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2007 (7 files) Defence Committee (HC/CL/CO/CU): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2007 (6 files) Education and Skills Committee (HC/CL/CO/DY): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (1 file) Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (HC/CL/CO/DT): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2007 (7 files) Environmental Audit Committee (HC/CL/CO/DG): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (1 file)

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European Scrutiny Committee (HC/CL/EU): Numbered files, 1996, Visit Briefs, 2000-2001, Inquiry records, 2004-2006, Minutes of proceedings, 2005-2006, Committee papers, 1996-2004, Visit records for Brussels, Brussels (COSAC), Madrid COSAC, Warsaw and Copenhagen, Athens and Nicosia, Athens and Cyprus, Strasbourg and Luxembourg, 2001-2003 (43 boxes, 1 file) Finance and (HC/CL/CO/EC): Formal minutes, 2005-2006 (1 file) Health Committee (HC/CL/CO/DA): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (2 files) Home Affairs Committee (HC/CL/CO/CW): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (1 file) International Development Committee (HC/CL/CO/DF): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2007 (7 files) Joint Committee on the Draft Children Bill (HC/CL/JT/CA): Agendas, minutes, background papers and correspondence, 2005 (1 box) Liaison Committee (HC/CL/CO/DH): Minutes of proceedings, 2005-2006 (1 file) Modernisation of the House of Commons Committee (HC/CL/CO/CH): Minutes of proceedings (unpublished), 2005-2006 (1 file) Affairs Committee (HC/CP/CO/DC): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, agendas, briefs, informal notes and correspondence, 1997-2007 (1 box, 1 file) Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Committee (HC/CL/CO/DW): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (4 files) Procedure Committee (HC/CL/CO/DN): Agendas, informal minutes, briefs, minutes of proceedings (unpublished), 2001-2006 (1 box, 1 file) Public Accounts Committee (HC/CL/CO/DR): Correspondence with the public, National Audit Office, MPs and government departments,2 002-2003 (2 boxes) Public Administration Committee (HC/CL/CO/DS): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (2 files) Quadripartite Committee (HC/CL/CO/ED): Informal minutes, Members correspondence, Liaison Committee correspondence, general correspondence and Government Departments correspondence, 2002-2005 (1 box) Scottish Affairs Committee (HC/CL/CO/CX): Minutes of proceedings (unpublished), Chairman’s draft report and proposed amendments: Meeting Scotland’s Future Energy Needs, 2005-2006 (2 files) Trade and Industry Committee (HC/CL/CO/CZ): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2006-2007 (1 file) Transport Committee (HC/CL/CO/AR): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (3 files) Treasury Committee (HC/CL/CO/DD): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (2 files)

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Welsh Affairs Committee (HC/CL/CO/CY): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, papers of the inquiry into the ‘Ofcom Review of Broadcasting’, 2004-2006 (1 box, 1 file) Work and Pensions Committee (HC/CL/CO/DX): Memoranda reported to the House but not printed, 2005-2006 (1 file) Delegated Legislation Office Files including shorthand writers, Gurney’s services and the printing of committee reports, 1965-2004 (2 boxes) Journal Office (HC/CL/JO) Journal, 2004-2005 (1 volume) Minute Book pages A and B for the Chamber, and for Westminster Hall sittings. Top copies (Prayers) of Petitions laid before the House of Commons, 2004-2006 (4 files) Library (HC/LB) Typescript memorandum on issues connected with a privilege motion of March 1955, together with correspondence between J P Stevenson and D C L Holland, 1970s (1 file) Petition in favour of the ministerial plan of reform, [c1832?] (1 file) “A Boy Called Horace: A biography of Mr Speaker Horace King and account of his connections with Tees-side” written by Minnie Horton with a first person account of his tenure. Intended for publication, but never published, c1970 (1 file) Private Bill Office (HC/CL/PB) Private Bill correspondence, 1999-2006 (2 boxes) Public Bill Office (HC/CL/PU) Public Bills – annotated and accompanied by correspondence, notes etc, 1958-1970 (8 boxes) Speaker’s Office (HC/SO) Documents referring to the building of Westminster Bridge, c1805 (3 items) Various files on issues relating to parliamentary procedure such as standing orders, complaints etc. Other files relate to the Speaker’s social and official engagements abroad and with other parliamentary offices, 1956-2005 (4 boxes)

Other records relating to Parliament Photographs of the bombed Palace of Westminster, dated 10 May 1941. Taken by Stephen Culnane, station officer at Acton Fire Station, 1938-1960. Gift. (HL/PO/ RO/1/180) Photographs, negatives and some associated papers of the late Roland Boyes MP in connection with People in Parliament, published 1990 and his uncompleted project on women in Parliament, 20th century. Gift.

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Manuscript volume entitled The Administration of Lord Derby, votes of Members of the House of Commons on Government Divisions only, session 1858. Compiled from the House of Commons Division Lists by P. Vargas. Purchase. (HC/LB/1/40/6) Marriage settlement of Sir George Smyth Baden-Powell (MP for Liverpool, Kirkdale division) and Francis Annie Wilson with trustees deeds and documents, 1893-1917. Gift. (GBP/75) Papers of Basil St. George Drennan, c1926-c1958. Gift. (DRE) Contemporary copy of a speech made to the ‘addled parliament’ by King James I., 4 May 1614. Purchase. (HL/PO/RO/1/179)

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appendix 2: Staff of the Parliamentary Archives

Clerk of the Records: Stephen Ellison, BA, MSc Assistant Clerks of the Records: David Prior, BA, MPhil, RMSA (Collection Care, Public Services & Outreach) Caroline Shenton, MA, DPhil, DipARM, RMSA (e-Archive Services) Frances Grey, BA (Records Management & House of Lords Freedom of Information Officer) Secretary: Annie Pinder

Records Management Service

Records Manager: Kimberly Barata, BA, MLS, CAS Assistant Records Managers: Clare Baker BA, MA Shona Robertson BA, MA (from 11 September 2006) Temporary Records Management Assistant: Amanda Morgan (June to Sept 2006) Digital Records Specialist: Malcolm Todd MA (from 2 October 2006 on secondment from The National Archives)

Archives Service

Archivist: Mari Takayanagi, MA(Oxon), MA, RMSA Assistant Archivists: Jennie Lynch, BA, MSc Econ, RMSA Richard Burman BA, MSc Econ Archives Officer: Simon Gough Assistant Archive Officers: Richard Ward, BA Victoria Britton, BA (to 28 July 2006) Bina Sudra, BA (from 30 October 2006) Graduate Trainee Archivists Michael Plant, BSc (from 2 October 2006) Catrin Holland, BSc Econ (from 10 October 2006)

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Collection Care

Conservation Officers seconded by the British Library: Paul Slapp (Manager part-time) Brian Hopkins Lois Jolly Mark Naylor Fred Pace Tom McCarthy Kevan Holland Reprographic Officers seconded by The Stationery Office: Stephen Chamberlain Carol Ager David Trowbridge Repository Housekeepers: Gwen Neenan (to 28 February 2007) Madeline Cross (to 28 December 2006) Denise Johnson Maria Rojas (from 22 January 2007)

Photographs: Geremy Butler (pp 7-9, 12), Parliamentary Archives ( cover, pp. 6, 14-16,19-21), Deryc Sands (pp. 2,17), Sense of Place competition entrants (p. 18 ). House of Lords 2008 Parliamentary Archives 2008 Printed in the by the Stationery Office 1/2008 87001 19585

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