Michael Moss

Laurence Brockliss

Michael S. Moss

John Cardwell

The death of Admiral Nelson on his flagship, the Victory, at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 is the basis of a well-known story. This book focuses on William Beatty, the surgeon who attended Nelson in his last hours and was later to publicize the deathbed scene. It traces his life and career as a leading naval surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars and afterwards.

William Beatty, Naval Medicine, and the Battle of Trafalgar

Nelson's Surgeon

John R. Hume

History of the shipbuilding company, Harland and Wolff. The company was founded in Belfast in 1861 by Edward Harland and Gustav Wolff. This company built the Titanic and the Olympic.

125 Years of Harland and Wolff, Belfast 1861-1986

Shipbuilders to the World

Numerical Gravity Wave and Linear Advection Experiments on a One-dimensional Nested Grid

Alison Turton

House of Fraser

A Legend of Retailing

Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast is the most visited property of the National Trust for Scotland. This lavishly illustrated book tells the whole history of the castle.

The 'magnificent Castle' of Culzean and the Kennedy Family

David Thomas

Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign 'silence' is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, India, Iceland, Jamaica, Malawi, The Philippines, Scotland, Turkey and the United States. Making a clear link between autocratic regimes and the failure to record often horrendous crimes against humanity, the volume demonstrates that the failure of governments to create records, or to allow access to records, appears to be universal. Arguing that this helps to establish a hegemonic narrative that excludes the 'other', this book showcases the actions historians and archivists have taken to ensure that gaps in archives are filled. Yet the book also claims that silences in archives are inevitable and argues not only that recordkeeping should be mandated by international courts and bodies, but that we need to develop other ways of reading archives broadly conceived to compensate for absences. Archival Silences addresses fundamental issues of access to the written record around the world. It is directed at those with a concern for social justice, particularly scholars and students of archival studies, history, sociology, international relations, international law, business administration and information science.

Missing, Lost And, Uncreated Archives

Archival Silences

Michael S. Moss

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