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Digitised Sources, Materiality and ‘Interim Archives’: Archive Encounters in Asia and the United Kingdom

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In this Comment, I reflect on my personal experience in doing research at institutional archives as an early career historian. I discuss how my research has been shaped by encounters with physical and digital sources across Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong SAR and the United Kingdom. In doing so, I draw on the concept of ‘interim archives’ to emphasise the partial nature of primary sources in institutional archives, and the necessity for research to be multi-archival due not only to the realities of access, but also the need to incorporate diverse perspectives.

Source: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

DOI: 10.1017/s0080440125000076

Author: Jeremy Goh

Institution: University of Warwick

Language: English

Topic: Digital and Traditional Archives Management

Subfield: Conservation

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,550

Funders: University of Warwick, Tan Kah Kee Foundation