Archives of war : technology, emotion and history /

"This book offers a comparative analysis of British Army Unit War Diaries in the two World Wars, to reveal the role played by previously unnoticed technologies in shaping the archival records of war. Despite thriving scholarship on the history of war, the history of Operational Record Keeping i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ramsay, Debra, 1965- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Series:	Media, war and security
Subjects:	Great Britain. > Army > Archives. National Archives (Great Britain) Great Britain. > Army. War diaries > Great Britain. World War, 1914-1918 > Great Britain > Historiography. World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain > Historiography. Archival materials > Digitization > Great Britain. Archival materials > Digitization. Armed Forces > Archives. Historiography. War diaries. Great Britain. 1914-1945

Table of Contents:

Introduction : from battlefield to archive
"Scribbled hastily in pencil" : unit war diaries in the First World War
The typeset war : unit war diaries in the Second World War
The matter of materials and archives
Conclusion : from the age of information to information overload.