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  • the biggest and one of the most advanced enterprises in the country the royal mail archive and the Contemporary Historian
    Contemporary British History, 2007
    Co-Authors: Adrian Steel, Peter Sutton
    Abstract:

    The riches of The Royal Mail Archive are many and cover a huge variety of subjects. Yet they remain under-used in particular by the Contemporary Historian. As an institution that touched many aspects of national life, the story of the Post Office is inextricably linked to key events in twentieth century British history. This article touches on a number of these links. It goes on to highlight numerous examples of material in The Royal Mail Archive that the Contemporary Historian could deploy to enhance their research.

  • sir henry wellcome s archival legacy and the Contemporary Historian
    Contemporary British History, 2003
    Co-Authors: Adrian Steel, Lesley A Hall
    Abstract:

    The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London has an international reputation in the fields in which it specialises. The Archives and Manuscripts Section of the Library, staffed by a team of fully qualified archive professionals, contains unique collections of original material of value to many types of researcher. This article will deal briefly with the life and work of the man whose bequest established the Library on its present footing, Henry Wellcome, and then with the archive material that is held by the Library. The emphasis of the article is on material of interest to the Contemporary Historian, and Contemporary medical archives

John D Fair - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Lesley A Hall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • sir henry wellcome s archival legacy and the Contemporary Historian
    Contemporary British History, 2003
    Co-Authors: Adrian Steel, Lesley A Hall
    Abstract:

    The Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London has an international reputation in the fields in which it specialises. The Archives and Manuscripts Section of the Library, staffed by a team of fully qualified archive professionals, contains unique collections of original material of value to many types of researcher. This article will deal briefly with the life and work of the man whose bequest established the Library on its present footing, Henry Wellcome, and then with the archive material that is held by the Library. The emphasis of the article is on material of interest to the Contemporary Historian, and Contemporary medical archives

Peter Sutton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

F S L Lyons - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the dilemma of the irish Contemporary Historian
    2016
    Co-Authors: F S L Lyons
    Abstract:

    From time to time, as is well known, the B.B.C. in a laudable attempt to come to grips with the more disagreeable aspects of present-day reality, decides to enlighten its public on the subject of Ireland. On one of these improving occasions—I think it may have been a Panorama television programme just over a year ago— the commentator seemed to find the past weighing heavily upon his modish brow, for he repeated more than once a remark em bodying what he seemed to regard as his own special discovery about the Irish question. 'Irishmen', he pronounced solemnly, 'are so imprisoned in their history that it is hard to see how they can find a way out of their present predicament.' Not, we may feel, a very profound or a very original observation. But, like so many truisms, it does contain an element of truth, unpleasant but undeniable. It is that element of inconvenient truth which helps to define the subject of this essay. If the Historians of Contemporary Ireland face a dilemma, it is precisely because we are all indeed incapsulated in our history and therefore find it difficult either to study it or to write about it objectively. For if, as I believe, this is true even of our efforts to write about events further back in time, a fortiori it is truer still when we come to deal with what has happened and is happening under our very eyes. Of course, it may be argued that this is by no means an ex clusively Irish dilemma, and that the same difficulties, in varying degrees, face Contemporary Historians in every part of the world. This is perfectly true and it raises a general question—I had almost said a philosophical question—which must be faced before we can go on to consider what, if anything, may be uniquely different about the character and intensity of the Irish dilemma. The general question is very simply stated—can Contemporary history be history? Put thus baldly it sounds a stupid question