As a research historian I’m a fan of archives and can often be found delving in them.
They are vital although often partial records of the past.
That applies just as much to the left and the labour movement as it does to ‘official’ bourgeois histories (assuming there is a complete divide).
My general thoughts are here:
Alan Rusbridger, archives & preserving modern historical records
I’m pleased to say that the archive of the London Socialist Historians Newletter dating back to 1997, itself now a bit of socialist history is now on-line:
http://londonsocialisthistorians.blogspot.com/2020/01/welcome-to-lshg-newsletter-1997.html
To underline why archives are important it contains many pieces written by myself that I have completely forgotten about… Forgetting is not good history.
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