Chris picks out a fact of life - the misrepresentation in the Archers - with which we seem to be struggling more and more these days, despite the amount of community engagement this particular office carries out. I was talking to my new neighbours about my job recently, and was asked about the oldest record we hold here. It happens to be a Saxon charter of 780. He said why were we holding something like that - shouldn't it be somewhere more secure? And, as he could see my hackles were rising, he corrected himself and said he thought stuff that old would be in a proper record office. When I asked him what he thought a local record office did, he didn't know.

We find this time and time again, despite giving endless talks tours and other forms of outreach. Somehow the culture of out time fails to get to grips with what we actually do.

Caroline Adams (another former Archers listener - but I fell off when Mark was killed)

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As a former listener - I, too, turn it off when the theme tune comes on nowadays! - I think that Anne is right in saying Jennifer went to the record office when researching for her book, but didn't she also go to the British Library (rather than the mere local archives) to do some proper research? The implications - and the complete misrepresentation - being clear! Chris Pickford Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra

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