New Thinking: Citizen researchers and the history of record keeping

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How a disaster in the 1922 led to new thinking about record keeping. Ahead of the ICHORA conference Dr William Butler, Head of Military Records and Jenny Bunn, Head of Archives Research from The National Archives join Naomi Paxton to discuss some of the researchers across the UK who have helped catalogue our history and about a research project based on documents held by the royal hospital which tell us about pension negotiations and disability history.

You can find more about the records held at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on the National Archives website https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14232 https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/our-research-and-academic-collaboration/research-events/ichora-2022/ https://archivaldiscourses.org/news/

This podcast was made in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council, part of UKRI. You can find more conversations about New Research gathering into a playlist on the Free Thinking programme website https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zws90

Producer: Paula McFarlane

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0:35.8	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:39.8	Hello, I'm Naomi Paxton, and thanks for listening to this new thinking episode of
0:44.3	the Arts and Ideas podcast, in which we're talking about records and archives, how they
0:49.2	are created, cared for, remade and reimagined.
0:53.5	Since 1912, the grounds of the Royal Hospital in Chelsea
0:56.5	have been host to the splendour of the famous annual flower show.
1:00.8	But the colour, tradition and spectacle of the place,
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