Tag: British Library

  • Constructing an archive: a reflection on British Library collections

    Constructing an archive: a reflection on British Library collections

    By Mobeen Hussain (@amhuss27) As historians, we are often used to thinking about an archive as a fixed set of documents kept in a static physical location. An appropriate historical source is often considered as such only if it can be verified by ‘real’ material from a ‘real’ archive.[1] Yet, archives mean different things to different researchers.…