Engaging with Records and Archives

Engaging with Records and ArchivesThis new book provides an authoritative and inspiring response to todays growing fascination with the idea of the archive and contains cutting edge research articles on the history and theory of archives and records, written by internationally renowned and emerging scholars.

Hug examines a wide range of sources

whose inept and dangerous rule many historians feel put the country on the road to civil war

socio-economic policies

Ranging from Shakespeare to Dragnet

national and identity in the long nineteenth century

It compares two ways in which memory is embodied: in repertoires of practices

It includes studies of the fascinating

and ideologies

such as the 1997 general election

and sexual acts

Argues that research into the cultural history of music can significantly help our understanding of the evolution of English national identity

It is an engaging oral history of migrant experiences and attitudes