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Dear all, Ruskin College have issued a short statement: http://www.ruskin.ac.uk/news/2012/10/10/Ruskin_Cherishes_its_Archives Katie On 04/10/2012 15:31, Rachel MacGregor wrote: > 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 > > 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 > -- Katie Birkwood Exhibitions Project Officer Cambridge University Library West Road Cambridge CB3 9DR http://lib.cam.ac.uk 01223 765738 [log in to unmask] 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