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Roy Edwards - University of SouthamptonKeith Harcourt – HMRS
Co-Founders – The Archives and Artefacts Study Network
Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics
Alliance or Atrophy?
Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics
Alliance or Atrophy?
The National Coalition for History - USANearly every program of interest to the
historical and archival communities have cuts from 2011
Wagons-Lits Archiveand Collection sold
The Silk Mill Industrial Museum Derby, a World Heritage site was mothballed at short notice in 2011.
Photo: Derby City Council
Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics
Alliance or Atrophy?
How can the community of amateur historians and enthusiasts work with those in the
academic/education community to ensure that these records will be available for future
generations to use?
Faced with the circumstances, our question is:
Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics
Alliance or Atrophy?
The survival of records and artefacts is best ensured by their use:
- Education: 5-16 years old – History is there, but who knows where next.- No undergraduate degrees in business or technological history.
- No departments of business history (BHU at LSE). - Media – Video Conferences, Radio and Television.
- Manufacturing is suddenly important again.- Engineering is being seen as the saviour of the British economy- Museums are starting to have links with colleges who use their material
Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics
Alliance or Atrophy?Who are the stakeholders of business/technological history?
Aviation enthusiastsMotor Vehicle enthusiastsRailway enthusiastsAcademics working in archivesor with artefactsShip enthusiastsUrban exploration ‘practitioners’
Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics
Alliance or Atrophy?
Academics, Professional Museum Curators and Archivists haveagendas that vary from those of the Enthusiast, but ALL need therecords, artefacts and the ideas that arise from them.We have common cause, but how do we articulate this?
Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics
Alliance or Atrophy?
We need to co-operate:1. Preservation2. Use of Archives & Artefacts3. How do we let people know?
Paul Garrret – HMRS Drawing Archivist, Dr Terry Gourvish – Chair of the Business Archives Council,
Margaret Garret – HMRS Secretary, Dr Roy Edwards – Univ. of Soton and Clive Walton Evans – Chair HMRS
in the HMRS Drawings Archive discussing these issues as A2SN was founded
Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics
Alliance or Atrophy?
But not only do we talk – we hold conferencesWhy not come and join us?
Archives, Artefacts, Amateurs & Academics
Alliance or Atrophy?
Thanks for listening
Roy and Keith