1st Edition

Michael Moss on Archives Beyond the Four Corners of the Page

260 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Michael Moss on Archives brings together selected outputs from an internationally renowned archival scholar, who explored the theory and practice of archives and records management. Comprising a selection of 11 of Moss’ most significant archival writings, the book demonstrates the development of his thinking in archival theory and practice over the past 20 years. Michael Moss was a towering... Read more

Introduction

From Whisky to Nelson by Way of Brussel Sprouts: The Contribution of Michael Moss (1947-2021)

Julie McLeod, Andrew Prescott, Susan Stuart and David Thomas

 

1.     The scent of the slow hound and the snap of a bull-dog - the place of research in the archival profession

By Michael S. Moss with Introduction by Michael Piggott

 

2.     The Hutton Inquiry, the President of Nigeria and what the butler hoped to see?

By Michael S. Moss with Introduction by Sarah Tyacke

 

3.     Privileging information is inevitable

By James Currall, Michael Moss & Susan Stuart with Introduction by Eric Ketelaar

 

4.     The archives of business and the business of archives

By Michael S. Moss with Introduction by Vicki Wilkinson

 

5.     Choreographed encounter: The archive and public history

By Michael Moss with Introduction by Nick Barrett

 

6.     Authenticity: A red herring?

By James E.P. Currall, Michael S. Moss, Susan A.J. Stuart with Introduction by James Lowry

 

7.     Opening Pandora’s Box - What is an archive in the digital environment?

By Michael S. Moss with Introduction by Lale Özdemir

 

8.     Overlapping temporalities? The judge, the historian and the citizen

By Michael Moss and David Thomas with Introduction by Andrew Prescott

 

9.     Our digital legacy: An archival perspective

By Michael S. Moss and Tim J. Gollins with Introduction by Iyra S. Buenrostro

 

10.  How the file was invented

By Michael Moss and David Thomas with Introduction by Paul Lihoma

 

11.  The four corners of the page and the digital record

By Michael Moss and David Thomas with Introduction by Darra Hofman

 

12.  Select Bibliography of the Writings of Michael Stanley Moss

Biography

Julie McLeod is Professor Emerita in Records Management at Northumbria University. She has lead multidisciplinary research projects on digital records management and developed innovative records management and information governance education initiatives with leading national and international organisations

Andrew Prescott is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Glasgow and was from 2012-19 AHRC Theme Leader Fellow for the AHRC ‘Digital Transformations’ theme. From 1979 to 2000 he was a Curator of Manuscripts at the British Library, where he worked on the Electronic Beowulf project. He has also worked in libraries and digital humanities units at the University of Sheffield, King's College London and University of Wales Lampeter. 

Susan Stuart’s research is primarily in the area of hermeneutic philosophy and centres on developing the notion of enkinaesthesia as a transcendental condition for the very possibility of conscious experience. Stuart worked with Michael Moss on a number of ground breaking articles in which they applied the concepts and methods of philosophy to archival questions.

David Thomas was Visiting Professor at Northumbria University and spent most of his career at the UK National Archives where he was Director of Technology. He was educated at London University and did a PhD in Tudor history under Conrad Russell. He researches and writes in the fields of archives and history.