Woburn Abbey and the Dissolution of the Monasteries

1933 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 129-160
Author(s):  
Gladys Scott Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Present Writer ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record

A prolonged search has recently been undertaken by the present writer with the permission and encouragement of the Duke of Bedford with the object, in the first place, of locating if possible the records of the Cistercian abbey of Woburn and, in the second, of ascertaining what material hitherto unused, or partly unused, exists in the Public Record Office and elsewhere concerning the history of that abbey at the time of its dissolution and immediately subsequent thereto.

Sir John Melton's Case (1535): Cockermouth Castle and the Three Silver Luces

1996 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-264
Author(s):  
J.H. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Chance Discovery ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strange Story ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Daunting Challenge

“FOR who shall interest us in contingent remainders,” wrote the young Mr. Maitland in 1879, “… while Chinese metaphysics remain unexplored.” It would indeed be a daunting challenge to kindle even a bare possibility of historical interest in the nooks and crannies of Fearne's elaborate learning. Yet so much progress has been made with Chinese metaphysics since 1879 that perhaps the time has come to riska brief excursion into the history of the contingent remainder. The occasion is a chance discovery in the Public Record Office which unlocks the strange story behind one of the first leading cases on the subject.

History of Hut 8 to December 1941 (1945)

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Mahon
Keyword(s):  
Washington Dc ◽  
British Government ◽  
Department Stores ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Archives ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record ◽  
First Time

Patrick Mahon (A. P. Mahon) was born on 18 April 1921, the son of C. P. Mahon, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England from 1925 to 1930 and Comptroller from 1929 to 1932. From 1934 to 1939 he attended Marlborough College before going up to Clare College, Cambridge, in October 1939 to read Modern Languages. In July 1941, having achieved a First in both German and French in the Modern Languages Part II, he joined the Army, serving as a private (acting lancecorporal) in the Essex Regiment for several months before being sent to Bletchley. He joined Hut 8 in October 1941, and was its head from the autumn of 1944 until the end of the war. On his release from Bletchley in early 1946 he decided not to return to Cambridge to obtain his degree but instead joined the John Lewis Partnership group of department stores. John Spedan Lewis, founder of the company, was a friend of Hut 8 veteran Hugh Alexander, who effected the introduction. At John Lewis, where he spent his entire subsequent career, Mahon rapidly achieved promotion to director level, but his health deteriorated over a long period. He died on 13 April 1972. This chapter consists of approximately the first half of Mahon’s ‘The History of Hut Eight, 1939–1945’. Mahon’s typescript is dated June 1945 and was written at Hut 8. It remained secret until 1996, when a copy was released by the US government into the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Washington, DC. Subsequently another copy was released by the British government into the Public Record Office at Kew. Mahon’s ‘History’ is published here for the first time. Mahon’s account is first-hand from October 1941. Mahon says, ‘for the early history I am indebted primarily to Turing, the first Head of Hut 8, and most of the early information is based on conversations I have had with him’.

The Birth of an American State: Georgia: An Effort of Philanthropy and Protestant Propaganda

1923 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 22-49
Author(s):  
R. A. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Authentic Materials ◽  
The Public ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Northern Continent ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Full Day ◽  
The Town

Students of the history of the communities now established in a great Republic and a great Dominion on the northern continent of America have this advantage: that they can begin at the beginning of things, at a definite point or from a line drawn, so to say, in the open plain in the light of the full day. There is for them no search for the head-springs of the river in almost impenetrable fastnesses, no dim twilight before the dawn, no doubtful region of myth or tradition or biassed chronicle. A plain tale of truth and fact is there for their perusal from the first. And I suppose in the case of no one of the States which has a beginning before the Declaration of Independence is this more conspicuous than in the case of the last of them formed from overseas, Georgia, the subject of the present essay. The authentic materials are ready to hand in the Public Record Office in abundance: in State papers, in entry books of letters, in books of appointments and grants to settlers, in journals of trustees, in minutes of the Common Council, in proceedings of the president and assistants for the town and county of Savannah from 1741 onwards, and in a mass of original correspondence, memorials and the like.

E. PREVELAKIS AND K. KALLIATAKI MERTICOPOULOU, ED., Epirus, Ali Pasha and the Greek Revolution: Consular Reports of William Meyer from Preveza, 2 vols. Monuments of Greek History No. 12 (Athens: Academy of Athens, 1996). Pp. 636 for vol. 1, 389 for vol. 2.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
Molly Greene
Keyword(s):  
Research Centre ◽  
The Public ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek History ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record ◽  
One Year

This lengthy two-volume work is part of a long-term Greek project to make foreign archives concerning modern Greek history more accessible to researchers in Greece. Professor Eleutherios Prevelakis, who passed away one year before the publication of these volumes, became the director of the Research Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History of the Academy of Athens in 1963. This position allowed him to conceive and carry through his program of collecting in microfilm form British archival material of relevance to modern Greece. The two volumes under review grew out of the work that he and Professor Merticopoulou conducted over many years in the archives of the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, which are stored in the Public Record Office.

The Politics of Archives in Uganda

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek R. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Slow Decay ◽  
Paper Record ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record ◽  
The Government ◽  
State Secrets ◽  
History Of Control

Since the beginning of the 21st century, archivists in Uganda have been pursuing a number of projects to make previously inaccessible archival collections available for research. All of this work of archival rehabilitation makes it hard to see the longer history of control and curatorship in the management of Uganda’s public record. Uganda’s archives have, over the course of decades, been rearranged and pruned in response to changing political and intellectual demands. In the 1950s and 1960s British and Ugandan officials sought to shield the paper record from examination. This regime of access control deprived campaigners of inspiration and evidence. During the 1970s, with the ascendancy of Idi Amin’s government, archives were rendered into a national patrimony. Civil servants hastened to ensure that the record of their accomplishments was stored in safe custody. Since the late 1980s the government of Yoweri Museveni has disinvested the state from the legacies of the past. For the Museveni government the slow decay of the public record has allowed the foreclosing of divisive debates about history. Uganda’s political history has been episodic and interrupted, and every new regime has had to struggle anew to author a narrative about national self-becoming. That is why Uganda’s governments have taken such dramatically different positions on the management of historical knowledge. Opening or withholding archival materials is a way of editing the public record. It makes some kinds of information state secrets and renders other aspects of the past into a legacy, a source of inspiration and orientation.

The authorship of “News from Spayne and Holland” and its Bearing on the Genuineness of the Confessions of the Blessed Henry Walpole, S.J.

1951 ◽  
Vol 1 (03) ◽  
pp. 220-230
Author(s):  
W. F. Rea
Keyword(s):  
Present Writer ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Record

In an article contributed to “The Month” for November 1951 the present writer expressed doubt about the genuineness of the confessions which Henry Walpole is said to have written during his imprisonment in the Tower in 1594. These enigmatical confessions, which are in the Public Record Office, were published by Father Pollen in volume V of the Catholic Record Society Publication. In the article in “The Month” the present writer based his argument on the government’s failure to use such compromising confessions, on the absence in Walpole”s subsequent conduct and correspondence of any sign of such a moral collapse as these pages represent, and lastly on Walpole's apparent admission in the confessions that he translated and augmented “Philopater”, a remark so fantastic that Walpole could not have made it. For the development of these arguments I must refer my readers to the pages of “The Month”. What is here aimed at is to show that the book which Walpole really did “translate and augment” is the anonymous work, entitled “News from Spayne and Holland”.

A recent view of the General Interdict on England, 1208–1214

1966 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 159-168
Author(s):  
C. R. Cheney
Keyword(s):  
Medieval History ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record ◽  
Pope Innocent Iii ◽  
King John

In recent years there have been several obvious places where an enquirer might learn about the interdict laid by Pope Innocent III on England and Wales. Powicke in the Cambridge Medieval History, Poole in the Oxford History, and Painter inThe Reign of King Johnall described this episode in the history of the English Church and discussed its bearing on political affairs. People who wanted more detail could go to two papers, published in 1948 and 1949, and would find additions to their knowledge in fragmentary documents discovered recently in the Public Record Office and the Canterbury archives, and edited by Dr Powell and Dr Barnes for the Pipe Roll Society in I960. From all these places they would receive roughly the same impression. But last year Messrs Richardson and Sayles published the first volume ofThe Governance of Mediaeval England.

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