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EP5: The Temple of History

 
 

EP5: The Temple of History

 
 

This week, Yves and Clare are joined by Dr Mike Jones, archivist, historian, deputy director of the ANU’s research centre for deep history, and author of Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum (2021). What dangers lie in sacralising the archive? Is it truly possible to allow everyone control over their own story? The group discusses the historian’s professional anxiety, patrolling the disciplinary boundaries of archival work, and a hidden code in paperclips.

 
 
 
 
 

Artefacts, Archives, and Documentation in the Relational Museum by Mike Jones (Routledge, 2021).

Read Mike Jones’s Essay ‘The Temple of History’ (History Australia, 2021):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14490854.2021.1988650

Yves Rees, Mike Jones and Clare Wright.

Clare Wright, Yves Rees and Mike Jones recording Archive Fever.

Follow Mike on Twitter!