Workshop 4

Archives into Institutions

4pm 23rd November 2022

Whether through sale, loan, or donation, many family collections are eventually transferred into museums, local record offices, and other institutions. Under the care of professional archivists they are preserved, catalogued, and made accessible to an audience beyond the family who compiled them. Which items do families seek to pass on, why, and how might these familial bequests shape national narratives? What is gained – and lost – in the migration from the home to the record office? 

Speaker: Dr Ann-Marie Foster (Northumbria University) and Mr Tom Plant (Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre)