Treasuries of Knowledge Podcast
1) Frances Maguire: ‘Printed Receipts and Personal Solvency: Collecting the Paperwork of Hearth Tax’
Discussion of the material culture of Hearth Tax, showing the intrusion of the state into households but also the potential for negotiation.
2) Sietske Fransen and Katherine Reinhart: 'Making Visible: The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society'
Discussion of the project on The Visual and Graphic Practices of the Early Royal Society.
3) Matt Symonds: 'Archeology of Reading'
Discussion of the Archeology of Reading project and the digital archive.
4) Helen Kemp: ‘All My Manuscripts Papers of My Own Hand to be Carefully Preserved in the Study of the Said Library’
Discussion of the manuscript library of Thomas Plume
5) Stéphane Jettot: ‘Treasuries of Refugees: The Collection of Genealogical Archives by Exiled Jacobites in the Reign of Louis XIV’
Discussion of Irish Jacobites' conflicts over the role and ownership of the Great Book of Lecan (fifteenth-century Codex).
6) Brooke Palmieri: ‘A Little World of Strangeness’
Discussion of Thomas Leeds's Temple of Wisdom, reflecting on the treasuring mentality and the role of the 'impartial reader' (recording missed the first five minutes, for which Brooke Palmieri very he...Show More
7) Marco Schnyder: ‘Knowledge, Action, and Identity: The Swiss Merchant Nation in Lyon and its Archive (17th-18th centuries)’
Discussion of the Swiss merchant archives and their use in legal and cultural usage.
8) Djoeke van Netten: ‘Collecting and Guarding Information just before and after the Establishment of the Dutch East India Company (1602)’
Discussion of concealing and revealing, inclusion and exclusion in the history of information gathering of the Dutch East India Company.
9) Fabio Antonini: ‘Italian Archives: Administration and Scholarship’
Discussion of the access and use of the Venetian secret archives, interrelating the administrative impulses with erudite historical study.
10) Sundar Henny: ‘Masters of Useless Information: Private Papers as Treasuries in Seventeenth-Century Zurich’
Sundar Henny Challenges the focus on 'information' and 'knowledge' in the study of archives and libraries, and draws attention to the materiality and symbolic value.