Digitising the Past - Video
In this short film we celebrate our long term relationship with the UK's National Archives (see their website).
Follow the step-by-step and meticulous process of selection, preservation and digitisation of materials from the UK government's official archive: from paper archive to Archives Direct. Materials selected are for 'Apartheid South Africa' and for the forthcoming 'Colonial America'.
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