Table of Contents
Introduction; Chapter 1 How Government Shaped the English Archival Profession: Commissions, Legislation and Reports, 1800–1950; Chapter 2 How Government Shaped the English Archival Profession: From Grigg to The National Archives, 1950–2003; Chapter 3 A National Archival System or Strength in Diversity: National Archival Institutions, 1838–2003; Chapter 4 Diversity of Provision: Local and Specialist Archives, 1889–2003; Chapter 5 From Scholarly Preoccupations Towards Professionalism: Historical and Scholarly Associations, 1880–1945; Chapter 6 The Development of Professional Bodies: The Society of Archivists and Beyond, 1945–2003; Chapter 7 Gatekeepers to the Profession: Archival Education, 1880–1980; Chapter 8 Archival Education: Specialisation, Expansion and Development of Professional Education, 1960–2003; conclusion Conclusion: Archives and Archivists in Twentieth Century England;