1st Edition
Archival Silences Missing, Lost and, Uncreated Archives
Introduction
Michael Moss and David Thomas
1. Theorising the Silences
Michael Moss and David Thomas
2. What are silences: the Australian example
Michael Piggott
3. Silent contemporary records: access to the archives of Special Investigation Commission in Iceland, 2010-2019
Eiríkur G. Guðmundsson
4. Noises in the Archives: Acknowledging the Present Yet Silenced Presence in Caribbean Archival Memory
Stanley H. Griffin
5. Silenced and Unsilenced Memories: Archival Fonds of Brazil’s Political Police, 1964-1985
Renato Pinto Venancio and Adalson de Oliveira Nascimento
6. Uncovering Silences Through Photographs and Listening:
Envisioning Archives as a Democratic Space
Iyra S. Buenrostro
7. Silences in Malawi’s Archives
Paul Lihoma
8. Perceived Silence in the Turkish Archives: from the Ottoman Empire to Modern Republic
Lale Özdemir and Oğuz İcimsoy
9. Silenced Archives and Archived Voices: Archival Resources for a History of Post-Independence India
Swapan Chakravorty
10. The Voices of Children and Adolescents in the Archives
Mette Seidelin and Christian Larsen
11.Diaries and Silence
Polly North
12. Filling the Gaps
Michael Moss and David Thomas
Afterword: Tales from the Sometimes ‘Silent’ Archives
David D. Hebb
Biography
Michael Moss was professor emeritus of archival science at the University of Northumbria, he was previously research professor in archival studies in the Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute at the University of Glasgow, where he directed the Information Management and Preservation MSc programme.
David Thomas was employed at the UK National Archives for most of his career, acting as Director of Technology from 2005 until his retirement in 2013. Subsequently he was a visiting professor at Northumbria University.
