New Issue: Archives & Records

Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association
Volume 46, 2025 – Issue 3: Special issue on conservation
(subscription)

Editorial

Introduction to special issue on conservation
Mark Allen & Annie Starkey

Research Articles

In safe hands: moving the medieval archive of Durham Cathedral
Tony King, Katie Brew, Alison Cullingford, Joanne Fulton, Andrew Gray & Isabelle Morse

Creating access to Archbishop John Swayne’s register through interdisciplinary collaboration, conservation, and digital advances
Sarah Graham

Large-scale archives of industrial companies: thoughts, research, choices and activities of the SNIA Viscosa collection project, with a focus on tracing paper drawings
Ilaria Camerini & Eliana Dal Sasso

Lessons from the masses: a comparison of three major conservation and rehousing projects for three Oxford College archives
Jessica Hyslop, Emma Skinner & Nikki Tomkins

Book Reviews

Conservation of books
edited by Abigail Bainbridge, London and New York, Routledge, 2023, xxxiii + 700 pp., £43.99 (paperback), ISBN 9780367754914
Steph Bennett

Paper, Paper, Paper
by Rúben R. Dias, Miguel Sanches and Manuel Delago, with illustrations by Diana Amarelo and Foreword by Gavin Ambrose, Portugal, o.itemzero, 2024, 216 pp., £44 (hardback), ISBN 9789895378654
Shirley Jones

Letterlocking: the hidden history of the letter
by Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, with the Unlocking History Research Group, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2025, 528 pp., $45 (hardback), ISBN 9780262049276
Katie Proctor

The conservator’s cookbook: solution preparation for the heritage professional
by Laura Chaillie, London, Routledge, 2025, 242 pp., £24.74 (paperback), ISBN 9781032489780
Lou Blackmore