Policing the Past: State Control over the Archive

• Barnickel, L. (1999) “Spoils of War: The Fate of European Records During World War II”, Archival Issues 24(1), 7– 20. https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/archivalissues/article/id/10875/
• Lowry, J. (2019) “Radical empathy, the imaginary and affect in (post)colonial records: how to break out of international stalemates on displaced archives” Archival Science 19, 185–203.
• Mbembe, A. (2002) “The Power of the Archive and its Limits,” in Refiguring the Archive. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 19–27.
• Stoler, A.N. (2002) “Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance” Archival Science 2, 87–109.
• Trouillot, M.R. (1995) Silencing the past: power and the production of history. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press.

Online Sources:

• British Film Institute, Colonial Film Database: http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/
• Imperial War Museum Sound Archive: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/sound
• Endangered Archives Programme, British Library: https://eap.bl.uk/
• Map of Community Archives: https://www.communityarchives.org.uk/interactive-map

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