Routledge Guide to British Political Archives - Sources Since 1945

Zusatztext 'Everyone involved in the history of democracy! research into electoral systems or in political journalism should make a daily obeisance to Chris Cook and urge the gods to make him immortal. For over thirty years he has assiduously produced a stream of remarkably reliable statistical volumes on a commendably wide area of national and international topics! all of which have shortened considerably the amount of time each of us would otherwise need to spend digging out crucial facts. This current volume is but the latest in along line of such tomes'. - Michael Meadowcroft! Representation Informationen zum Autor Chris Cook is former Head of the Modern Archives Unit at the London School of Economics. Editor of the best-selling Pears Cyclopaedia for over thirty years, his is also author of The Routledge Companion to European History since 1763, The Routledge Companion to World History since 1914 and The Routledge Companion to Britain in the 19th Century . Klappentext Presenting a comprehensive range of 1,500 personal papers, this major reference work provides an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to archives and sources now becoming available for British political history since 1945. Zusammenfassung Presenting a comprehensive range of 1,500 personal papers, this major reference work provides an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to archives and sources now becoming available for British political history since 1945. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction and Acknowledgements. Abbreviations of Major Record Repositories Part 1: Checklist of Archives of Organisations and Societies (A-Z) Part 2: Personal Archive Collections. Appendix 1: The Colonial Records Survey. Appendix 2: The Military Records Survey. Appendix 3: A Note on Electronic Pathways

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• Authors: Chris Cook, Cook Chris
• Assisted by: Chris Cook (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2006
• EAN: 9780415327404
• ISBN: 978-0-415-32740-4
• No. of pages: 488
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Politics & government, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Bibliographies, catalogues