The Silence of the Archive

David Thomas is a Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria where he is involved in research into access to contemporary records. Previously, he worked at the National Archives where he was Director of Technology and was responsible for digital preservation and for providing access to digital material. He has written articles and book chapters on archives, focusing on the implications of the digital.

Simon Fowler is an Associate Teaching Fellow at the University of Dundee where he teaches a course on military archives. Previously he worked at The National Archives for nearly thirty years. He has an MA in Archive Administration from University College London where his thesis was on income generation by archives.

Valerie Johnson is Interim Director of Research and Collections at The National Archives. She holds an MA with Distinction in Archive Administration, and was awarded the Alexander R Myers Memorial Prize for Archive Administration. She has worked as an archivist and a historian in the academic, corporate and public sectors.

Anne J. Gilliland, Associate Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, conducts research and teaches in the areas of electronic records management, the design and evaluation of information systems containing primary sources, and archival education. She has an MA from Trinity College Dublin, an MS and CAS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. She is a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, and a recipient of the Society’s C.F.W. Coker Award and the Midwest Archives Conference Margaret Cross Norton Award.