IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 829: 'Exploring Unchartered Waters': Unsorted Records at the National Archives, Kew
Tuesday 13 July 2010, 16.30-18.00
| Sponsor: | The National Archives, Kew |
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| Organiser: | Sean Cunningham, The National Archives, Kew |
| Moderator/Chair: | Stephen O'Connor, The National Archives, Kew |
| Paper 829-a | New Sources and Old History: The Unsorted Medieval Records Collection (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 829-b | Sorting and Cataloguing: Mapping the Routes to Buried Medieval Treasures? (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Charters and Diplomatics, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Paper 829-c | The Hidden National Archives Project: New Pathways into Medieval Itinerant Justice (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Archives and Sources, Law, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
| Abstract | The National Archives at Kew holds many thousands of boxes and sacks of unsorted early records. Many contain routine administrative and legal documents. Others hold fascinating and separated material that relates to existing document series already familiar to medieval historians. This session explains why tens of thousands of medieval records remain unsorted; explores how National Archives staff have approached this collection (and the interesting material found); and reports on a British Academy-funded project to analyse and sort newly-identified material related to late medieval eyres, assizes, and gaol deliveries. |