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The Archival Platform’s aim is to facilitate dialogue and information sharing between professionals, academics and government employees in the heritage and archive sector.

New exhibition opens at Luthuli Museum 03/02/2010

Fifteen years after the birth of South Africa’s democracy, the effects of apartheid still run deep, as Nunn’s photos demonstrate.  Read More

Reading Archives Power 02/02/2010

An online book review session discusses the book Archives Power.  Read More

Report on skills in archives and library sector 01/02/2010

A draft report has been made available online by the Department of Arts and Culture.  Read More

What’s an authentic haka? 25/01/2010

NZ tour operator hires Europeans and Israelis to perform traditional Maori dances for tourists.  Read More

Editor’s note 15/01/2010

2010 will be concerned not just with the World Cup but also… Read More

Increased access to classified state archives 18/01/2010

Harriet Deacon reflects on the value of increased access to classified state archives.  Read More

Guest Blog
Zimbabwe’s experience implementing the 2003 Convention on Intangible Heritage 18/01/2010

Stephen Chifunyise explains how Zimbabwe has been implementing UNESCO’s Convention on Intangible Heritage at national… Read More

City Museums and Urban Development 15/01/2010

Patrick Abungu, recently a MA student at the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam, comments on the… Read More

This year I’d most like to see on the Archival Platform…

This month we invite you to tell us what you want to see on the AP in our online poll.

Join your professional organisations and consider the role of academics in developing cultural policy by reading this piece by Philip Schlesinger.

Comment on the DAC skills survey and the community library bill.

From the Archival Platform

The_archive: ABORNE, the African Borderlands Research Network, an interdisciplinary network of over 100 academic researchers and... http://fb.me/5PHMhm017:03 08/02/2010

What others say

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