Archives in a Wider World: The Culture and Politics of Archives

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  • Sarah Tyacke

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Sarah Tyacke

Sarah Tyacke has been Keeper of Public Records and Chief Executive of the Public Record Office (PRO) of the United Kingdom government since 1992. She was responsible for building the new PRO building at Kew and establishing the separate Family Records Centre for family historians. Her responsibilities now include the records management part of the "modernizing government" agenda (freedom of information and digital records), and the promotion of the use of England’s archives and their "metadata" via the Access to Archives (A2A) programme and via the digital release of the 1901 census and other historical records over the Internet under the Nation’s Memory programme.

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2001-02-21

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Tyacke, Sarah. 2001. “Archives in a Wider World: The Culture and Politics of Archives”. Archivaria 52 (February):1-25. https://archivaria.dev.publicknowledgeproject.org/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12812.

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Archivaria 52 (Fall 2001)

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