European University Institute Library

Freedom of information, open access or empty archives?, edited by Andrew Flinn and Harriet Jones

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

no index present

non fiction

Freedom of information

76798927

edited by Andrew Flinn and Harriet Jones

open access or empty archives?

'History must be written imperfectly': closure and disclosure in British public records, 1838-2006 / David Vincent -- Opening government? The freedom of information act and the foreign and commonwealth office / Gill Bennett -- The freedom of information act in practice: the historian's perspective / Andrew Flinn and Harriet Jones -- The freedom of information act and Welsh devolution / Duncan Tanner and Mari Elin Wiliam -- The access to information shuffle: historical researchers versus the government in the Netherlands / Bob de Graaff -- Access to information: promise versus practice in the USA / Don B. Schewe -- Freedom of information and the American presidency: a researcher's perspective / Darby A. Morrisroe -- The problematic freedom of information principle: the Swedish experience / Kjell Östberg and Fredrik Eriksson -- Access to information and historical research: the Canadian experience / Larry Hannant -- Problems in obtaining and using official records for research in Irish and British history in the twenty-first century / Eunan O'Halpin -- Censorship, declassification and the history of end of empire in central Africa / Philip Murphy -- Researching contemporary monetary history: the archival experiences of an economic historian / Michael J. Oliver -- Political and digital divides: the dual challenge for central European archives / Miklos Lojko