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Edited by Robert Ellis and Peter Walne with a new introduction by Terence M. Eastwood 

This book, first published in 1980, brings together an important collection of 25 texts written by Sir Hilary Jenkinson at various times between 1915 and 1960 dealing with a wide range of topics, such as tallies, diplomatic, paleography, the archive profession, arranging records, seals, wartime measures, and so on by one of the most influential archivists in the English-speaking world. Most archivists know Sir Hilary Jenkinson by name, but few are familiar with his writings beyond his famous Manual of Archive Administration (1922). Because these speeches and essays are from another time and, for archivists outside the English milieu, another place, a new introduction (prepared by Terry Eastwood, a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists) provides a sense of the career of the man who wrote these essays as well as an explanation of the context in which they were written and the reasons they bear reading by a twenty-first-century audience. Remote as they may be, these essays reveal a lifetime devoted to almost every aspect of the archivist's professional endeavor. Reading them helps one appreciate the timeless preoccupations of the archivist, who may encounter novel circumstances but rarely an entirely new concern.

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