Don't forget about this years British Records Association Conference,
entitled Written in Stone? Records for the History of Law and Order.
1st-2nd December 1998, Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London
EC1
The programme consisting of presentations by both archivists and historians
is as follows:
Tuesday 1 December
9.50 Prof J H Baker (St Catherine's College, Cambridge) - Fact and law in
legal records
10.30 Dr Laura Gowing (University of Hertfordshire) - Women's history and
the church court records
11.30 Dr R Shoemaker (University of Sheffield) - Whores, mobs and
litigants: quarter sessions judicial records as a source for social
historians
12.10 Richard Temple (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick) -
Guardian angels - the records of the Howard's League and NACRO)
2.00 Prof Clive Emsley (Open University) - "Just some old bite of paper -
junk 'em like the rest": police records and the problems of preservation
2.40 Dr Ian Bridgeman (University of Luton) - "You're a likely lad."
Personnel registers and reconstructing the Royal Irish Constabulary
3.20 Duncan Broady (Greater Manchester Police Museum) - Criminal Records -
the Work of the Greater Manchester Police Museum
5.20 Maurice Bond Lecture
Archives: The Global Picture presented by Mr George Mackenzie, former
Deputy Secretary of the International Council on Archives
Wednesday 2 December
9.30 Dr Clare Rider (Inner Temple Archives) - Inn or out? The Inns of
Court and of Chancery and their records
10.10 Dr Ruth Paley (Public Record Office) - Giving the hangman the slip:
records of transported convicts
11.20 Prof Mike Levi (University of Cardiff) - Laundering the evidence:
white-collar crime and the historical (non) recording angel
12.00 Geoff Pick (London Metropolitan Archives) - One final sentence: a
summary judgement on the conference
To book or for further details ring the British Records Association on 0171
833 0428.
I hope to see you there!
Emily Naish
Conference Co-Organiser
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