‘Lost’ and ‘found’: the concealment and release of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ‘migrated archives’
‘Lost’ and ‘found’: the concealment and release of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ‘migrated archives’
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“丢失”与“找到”：英国外交和联邦事务部“迁移档案”的隐藏与公开
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10.3828/comma.2012.1.04
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2012
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Mandy Banton
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作者：
Mandy Banton
一群非洲老年人就1950年代和1960年代肯尼亚“茅茅”紧急状态期间据称遭受酷刑对英国政府提出损害赔偿要求，导致高等法院要求提供所有相关文件。外交和联邦事务部（FCO）随后承认，在非殖民化过程中，有37个前英国属地被扣留的官方文件被送往伦敦。本文探讨了英国外交部的帐户长期隐藏的收藏品和所有权的问题，并在英国国家档案馆的文件，它概述了英国的政策，对独立前殖民地政府记录的处置，并注意到有关的材料，不应传递给继任政府的类型的指导方针。来自“迁移档案”的文件已经公开表明，文件安全得到了更多的重视，这显然是政策制定的一部分。文章简要介绍了国际社会试图取缔未来的种族隔离制度的情况。
A claim for damages brought by a group of elderly Africans against the British Government for alleged torture during the Kenyan ‘Mau Mau’ emergency in the 1950s and 1960s led to a demand by the High Court that all relevant documentation be produced. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) subsequently admitted the existence of withheld official documents from 37 former British dependencies sent to London at decolonisation. This article examines the FCO's account of the long concealment of the collections and questions of ownership, and documents at the UK National Archives; it outlines British policy towards the disposal of colonial government records prior to independence and notes guidelines about the type of material that should not be passed to successor governments. Documents from the ‘migrated archives’ already made public note an increased emphasis on document security, which clearly fed into policy development. The article includes a brief account of international attempts to outlaw the future r...