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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
MONDAY 8 AUGUST
10.15 am
11.00 am
11.30 am
12.15 pm
1.00 pm
2.30 pm
3.15 pm
4.00 pm
4.30 pm
5.30 pm
OPENING ADDRESS
Coffee
GEOFFREY MARTIN The Public Records in 1988 A
ELIZABETH HALLAM From Tower Hill to Ruskin Avenue:
nine centuries of housing the Public Records
Lunch
RICHARD LORIMER Government record keeping: a Tale
from the Department of Employment
KELVIN SMITH Sampling and selection: current policies
Tea
MANDY BANTON Random relics: some lesser-known kinds of
Public Record
P.V. VISCOUNTESS leaves Westminster Pier for a return
sailing to Kew. There will be a conducted tour of the Public
Record Office, and a Buffet Supper on the trip back, arriving
at Westminster Pier at about 10.00 pm.
TUESDAY 9 AUGUST
10.15 am
10.50 am
PETER SPUFFORD The British Record Society and probate
records
Coffee
There follows a choice of lecture
11.20 am
12.30 pm
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3.15 pm
4.00 pm
NICHOLAS COX The thirty year rule and freedom of
information: access to Government Records
or
JANE COX Hatred pursued beyond the grave: the records of
the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
EDWARD HIGGS The P.R.O., the historian, and information
technology
or
MARGARET SPUFFORD The use of wills by economic and
social historians
Lunch
SIR GEOFFREY ELTON The P.R.O. and the historical
profession
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LORNA WEATHERILL Probate Inventories and consumer
behaviour
STELLA VCOLWELL A genealogist’s view of the Public
Records: ideals and reality
or
AMY LOUISE ERICKSON An Introduction to Probate
Accounts
Tea
TUESDAY 9 AUGUST Continued
4.30 pm
5.40 pm
8.00 pm
WEDNESDAY
10.15 am
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.00 am
.30 am
12.15 pm
1.00 pm
2.30 pm
3.15 pm
4.00 pm
4.30 pm
7.30 pm for
8.00 pm
JOAN BLYTH Records for the Primary School
or -
ANTHONY CAMP The genealogist’s use of probate records
RECEPTION IN THE MUSEUM OF THE PUBLIC RECORD
OFFICE, CHANCERY LANE
An Evening’s Entertainment MEMBERS OF THE BAR
THEATRICAL SOCIETY (CONVENOR: PATRIC
DICKINSON)
10 AUGUST
TIM PADFIELD Preservation and Conservation: will our
Public Records survive another 150 years?
Coffee
JOHN POST Record publication at the P.R.O.: past
performance and future prospects
BRIAN SMITH The National Register of Archives and other
nationwide finding aids
Lunch
ALEXANDRA NICOL Liaison: Public Records held in other
Record Offices
MICHAEL ROPER The international role of the P.R.O.
Tea
GEOFFREY MARTIN Future developments
RECEPTION AND BANQUET IN THE PARLIAMENT
CHAMBER OF THE INNER TEMPLE
CONFERENCE: RECORDS OF THE NATION, 8-10 AUGUST 1988
Please return (to arrive no later than 1 May 1988)
To: Miss S Colwell, c/0 Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London WC2A
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PLEASE RESERVE  places for the above Conference at £25 per place
I enclose a) Cheque for ........ .. made payable to The British Record Society
(in Sterling)
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Coupons for the Final Payment Form to be sent in May 1988