National Archives under threat?

[teaurn]

That's true.

maybe I'm just frightned of change  

[Redroger]

Much of the problem comes back to lack of training and motivation. The private sector is arguably no better than the private sector at this, and certainly no more competent, when the profit motive blinds them to everything, i.e. the bank collapse!I am all for change so long as it is from private to public, i.e. progressive and not regressive back towards the 19th century.

[LizzieW]

I think this is in danger of becoming too political now.

[BAC3]

Recently I asked The National Archives to research the disposition of a prisoner transferred to Millbank Prison from Parkhurst Prison on a specified date in the 1840's

The subsequent Quotation requested a provisional downpayment of £444.42

The Bank refused my application for a mortgage.

The National Archives..................!!!!!!

BAC3

[Redroger]

I had a quote of around £50 about 10 years ago but that was for 50 pages, so I accepted it.

[Nick29]

I think this is in danger of becoming too political now.

It was political from post number 1, but there is nothing in the rules about polical comments.   It is topical though, and the discussion has been very polite and civilised.

[teaurn]

 

[DianneReuby]

I'm a volunteer at a museum, and I know the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (which sets standards and gives advice) is to be closed in 2012 (just after a major restructuring which must have cost a bit!). My worry is not that organisations such as the NA and MLA are privatised, but that their info is simply thrown into a (very large) cupboard and left until it rots.

[Nick29]

I think we all have a responsibility to make sure that this does not happen.  And I'm not just talking about museums and record storage facilities..... how much social history is thrown away every year when people pass away, and old documents and photos get thrown into the skip ?