Out of the Depths of Chattel Slavery in Maryland

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maya Davis
Keyword(s):  
Frederick Douglass ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
Antebellum Period ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Government Records ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Private Collections

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, also known as Frederick Douglass, is arguably one of the most studied figures in the nineteenth century. His life in the public arena is well documented through public and private collections. This article examines how Frederick Bailey is documented in both public and private collections of records from the antebellum period. It also focuses on the preservation of the private family papers of Captain Aaron Anthony and the donation of the collection to the Maryland State Archives in the early 1960s. As with the personal papers of many slaveholding individuals, much of Douglass’s life in enslavement was recorded through the eyes of his master, Anthony. As 2018 marked the bicentennial of his birth, the state of Maryland celebrated his life and legacy. Archivists at the Maryland State Archives, the state’s official depository, worked to preserve and make accessible historical records of Douglass’s early life as documented in the public record. The Archives house government records of permanent value as well as private papers that document Douglass’s life as an enslaved individual.

The Irish court of wards under James I

1960 ◽  
Vol 12 (45) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Victor Treadwell
Keyword(s):  
English Court ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
James I ◽  
The Public ◽  
Charles I ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Public Archives ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Great Mass

The work of J. Murstfield and H. E. Sell hns directed the attention of historians to the importance of the English court of wards and liveries, both as an instrument of fiscal policy and as a welfare organisation for the children and widows of the king's tenants. In the Public Record Office, Lonclon, a great mass of material remains to throw light on every aspect of the court's activity. More recently Dr H. F. Kearney has published a uselul and suggestive paper on the Irish court of wards which was principally concerned with the reign of Charles I. A more detailed appraisal of the earlier period is not easy since the records of the Irish court of wards have, like those of other departments of state, suffered wholesale loss or destruction. It seems unlikely that the wards papers were ever placed in public archives: they apparently never reached the old Public Record Office in Dublin to be consumed in the holocaust of 1922. Consequently, the student has to work from public and private papers scattered throughout these islands in libraries, record ofices and private collections.

Historical Records

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Access ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Public Records ◽  
The Public ◽  
Code Of Practice ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Public Record ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Information Regime

Chapter 7 examines the relationship between the freedom of information regime established by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 and the pre-existing statutory regime governing the keeping of public records under the Public Records Act 1958. It describes the processes by which public records are transferred to the Public Record Office and opened to public access, and the progressive replacement of the ‘30-year rule’ with a ‘20-year rule’. It explains the separate, but related, concept of ‘historical records’ introduced by the 2000 Act, and the removal of certain exemptions by reference to the age of documents. The special procedures applicable to requests for information in transferred public records that have not been opened to the public are set out. The chapter then summarizes the guidance given to relevant authorities about the above matters by the Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice and the National Archives.

XIII.—Medieval Tallies, Public and Private

Archaeologia ◽  
1925 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 289-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Jenkinson
Keyword(s):  
Financial System ◽  
Great Change ◽  
Financial Problems ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Great Mass

It is now almost exactly twelve years since I first introduced this subject to the notice of the Society in connexion with a then recent deposit of medieval Exchequer Tallies at the Public Record Office; and though I subsequently communicated two further notes upon it, I may plead that even since those were made ten years have elapsed. During that “time there has been a great change in our knowledge of Exchequer procedure. Two or three notable books have appeared and a considerable amount of work has been done, though not all of it has yet been printed, upon the neglected Exchequer Records. Already we begin to look with quite different eyes at medieval financial problems, even though our knowledge of the great mass of the Memoranda Rolls, Receipt and Issue Rolls, Wardrobe Accounts and subsidiary documents still owes practically nothing to any publication of texts from those Records. I have accordingly thought it worth while to submit to the Society a further stage in our knowledge of the financial system, public, semi-public and private, of which Tallies formed so important a part. I have fortunately little to retract from what I said in my previous papers, but there are a few new points to note, some remarks to be extended, and a selection to be offered from a considerable accumulation of further illustrations.

Arbiters of Value: The Nationalization of Art and the Politics of Expertise in Early Socialist Romania

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 656-676
Author(s):  
Emanuela Grama
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Art Collections ◽  
National Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
Art Objects ◽  
Spatial Dimensions ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
Art Experts

In 1948, immediately after the Communist Party came to power in Romania, state officials commissioned a group of art experts to radically transform the existing public and private art collections into a national system of museums. These professionals became the new regime’s arbiters of value: the ultimate authority in assessing the cultural and financial value of artwork, and thus deciding their fate and final location. Newly available archival evidence reveals the specific strategies that they employed, and the particular political needs of the state they were able to capitalize on in order to survive and even thrive under a regime that, in principle, should have disavowed them. Even though many of them had professionally come of age during the interwar period, the art experts managed to make themselves indispensable to the new state. They functioned as a pivotal mediator between state officials and a broader public because they knew how to use the national network of museums to put the new state on display. Through the rearrangement of public and private collections across the country, and the centralization of art in museums, they produced a particular “order of things” meant not only to entice the public to view the socialist state as the pinnacle of progress and as a benefactor to the masses but also to validate their expertise and forge a new political trajectory for themselves. The strategic movement of art objects that they orchestrated reveals the material and spatial dimensions of state-making in early socialism.

scholarly journals The Transcendental Subaltern

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-371
Author(s):  
Byron Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ◽  
The Way

Abstract Was Immanuel Kant Russian? More striking than the fact itself is the length of time it was overlooked: following historian Alexander Etkind’s research on the topic, this paper details Königsberg’s occupation by the Russian Empire, considering the possibilities of reinstating Kant’s thought in the postcolonial tradition, more specifically that of the subaltern (as framed by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Taking this colonial context into account via a range of historical records and correspondences, I argue for a postcolonial reinterpretation and re-evaluation of the philosopher’s work, beginning with his famous essay on the topic of enlightenment. In what ways does this pertain to the enlightenment, as Kant sees it, and the way he distinguishes between the public and private spheres? Furthermore, how does Spivak’s reading of Kant overlook the subaltern status that she herself defines?

scholarly journals Some Mercenaries of Henry of Lancaster, 1327–1330

1913 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 151-166
Author(s):  
V. B. Redstone
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Third ◽  
Historical Manuscripts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Government Records ◽  
The Military ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

There are three sources, distinct in character, which supply materials whereby historians may be able to study the military characteristics of the period under discussion. The authentic Government records, existing either in printed form, as Palgrave's ‘Writs,’ Rymer's ‘Foedera,’ ‘Statutes of the Realm,’ and the like, or among the vast mass of original documents still lying unpublished in the Public Record Office, show the conditions of military service under the King. Numerous chronicles, as those of Geoffrey le Baker, ‘Annales Londonienses’ and others, the works of partisan clerks or monks, which form the second source, give a prejudiced and often an exaggerated account of the movements of Lancaster, Mortimer and the King, marked by an inaccuracy which was doubtless due to the writers' dependence upon second-hand information. The third source is that which has recently been made more accessible, though not to the extent which may be desired, by the publication of various local records in the Reports of the Historical Manuscripts Commissioners and of such useful works as the ‘Calendars of the City of London Letter Books’ and Miss M. Bateson's ‘Calendar of the Records of the Borough of Leicester.’ This new source of historical facts has an advantage over the other two in that it deals with events chronicled at the very time of their occurrence, and also places on record, without comment, mere statements of facts, including also the personal evidence of the chief actors in, and originators of, the incidents under consideration. The great historical value of this third source calls attention to the need for further publications of borough records such as the Memoranda Rolls of the City of London, a calendar of which Dr. Reginald Sharpe has now commenced. It is from these Memoranda Rolls, which contain letters from the King and from Henry of Lancaster, that the present paper attempts to throw new light upon the history of Mortimer's ascendency during the years 1327 to 1330.

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