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Podcast: Trinity Long Room Hub Podcasts
Episode: TLRH IWhose History? The 'Migrated Archive' and Britain's Colonial Past
Description: Recorded November 23, 2020.
An online lecture as part of the Out of the Ashes Lecture Series, with David M Anderson Professor of African History University of Warwick.
In April 2011, Foreign Secretary William Hague informed the British Parliament that a collection of some 25,000 historical files, that had been illegally held by his department for over 50 years, would be speedily transferred to The National Archive, at Kew. This vast collection of historical papers related to Britain’s imperial past, and is now known as the Hanslope Disclosure. These were records that Britain had secretly removed from each of 37 of its colonies at the po...