The histories of science and technology written tomorrow will depend
on what is kept today. The Public Record Office has drafted
selection criteria for papers relating to Industrial Policy in the
1970s and after - a collection which will be one of the best sources
for writing the histories of telecommunications, computers, steel,
textiles, oil, cars, metrology, space research, shipbuilding etc etc -
much of the late twentieth-century in other words.
Interested historians should look at the PRO's policy at:
http://www.pro.gov.uk/recordsmanagement/acquisition/industryosp.htm
The PRO are inviting feedback, and it is important to impress on
them that as many science and technology papers as possible should
be preserved.
J.
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