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…which brings us into the challenging area of creators, corporate bodies and machinery of government changes.
Some colleagues may be interested in this visualisation showing the government departments responsible for foreign affairs from 1945. Please, bear in mind that The National Archives Labs is a test area to try out our new ideas without affecting our main online services:
http://labs.nationalarchives.gov.uk/wordpress/index.php/2012/08/foreign-affairs-timeline/
Regards
Jone
Jone Garmendia
Head of Cataloguing
The National Archives
Tel +44 (0)20 8392 5330 Ext. 2415
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Boardman
Sent: 13 September 2012 10:43
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Subject: Re: the naming of names
This is also a common problem with health archives. To give only one example, in its 130 year history one of our hospitals has had five different names and been managed by ten different administrative bodies.
Elizabeth Boardman
Archivist
Oxfordshire Health Archives
From: Archivists, conservators and records managers. [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Gillian Fewings [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 September 2012 10:28
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Subject: the naming of names
I’m currently cataloguing a collection of material relating to the Poor Law commissioner and educationalist James Phillips Kay. On his marriage he took his wife’s name and became known as James Kay-Shuttleworth.
He’s also referred to as James Shuttleworth and also as James Kay, also as James Kay Shuttleworth (no hyphen).
He founded the ‘Battersea Training School’, which became ‘St Johns College, Battersea’, which was also known as the ‘National Society’s Training College’. This then merged in 1923 with St Marks in Chelsea and became Marjohns (The College of St Mark and St John), which moved to Plymouth in 1973 and became ‘Marjon’, aka The University College Plymouth St Mark and St John.
So far, in my wee catalogue, just dealing with him and St Johns Battersea, he’s got 5 possible names and 7 titles for one college (not counting all the others he was involved in).
Drat the man!
And I’m sure there are lots of you out there with much worse examples than that!
Gil
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