John Wyver writes: Ten days ago, with perhaps rather too little fanfare, the Government released a new strategic vision for archives. Commissioned from The National Archives (TNA) and launched by Baroness Twycross, Minister for Museums, Heritage and Gambling, this involved, as the project’s website notes, ‘an extensive consultation with the sector… in-person roundtable discussions across the country and an online consultation form. We also consulted with a wide range of the sector’s stakeholders, including users of archives.’ Given such thorough preparation, Archives at the Heart of Society is, in some ways, a comparatively modest proposal. Nonetheless it makes a strong and convincing case for the central importance of archives, and for why they must be accessible, inclusive and sustainable. Using it as a yardstick against which to measure the operation of the BBC Written Archives Centre (WAC) shows just how far short of best practice the Corporation’s archive falls. Regular readers…
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