Apologies for cross posting, but a colleague drew my attention to the following from the Women's History network:
Dear all
The archives of Ruskin College, pioneer institution of working-class
education, have been partly destroyed, on the instructions of the
college principal and despite protests and an offer from the Bishopsgate
Institute to take everything. What remains may still be at risk.
'Papers have not gone to a landfill site but have been specifically
destroyed. Even the removal firm seemed puzzled and sought clarification
from the principal who allegedly confirmed that indeed such material
must be destroyed.', writes Hilda Kean in an article on the History
Workshop website.
Please read Hilda's article for more information if you have time
http://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/whose-archive-whose-history-destruction-of-archives-at-ruskin-college-oxford/
And please urgently sign and publicize the petition at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/120/368/331/stop-further-archive-destruction-at-ruskin-college-oxford/
Does anyone have more information on this?
Rachel MacGregor
Senior Archivist
Birmingham Archives and Heritage
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