Freedom of Information : Open Access, Empty Archives? (Hardcover)

Section 1: Freedom of information in Britain  1. ‘History Must be Written Imperfectly’: Closure and Disclosure in British Public Records, 1838?2006  David Vincent  2. Opening Government? The Freedom of Information Act and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office  Gill Bennett  3. The Freedom of Information Act in Practice: The Historian’s Perspective  Andrew Flinn and Harriet Jones  4. The Freedom of Information Act and Welsh Devolution  Duncan Tanner and Mari Elin Wiliam  Section 2: Comparative Experiences of Freedom of Information  5. The Access to Information Shuffle: Historical Researchers Versus the Government in the Netherlands  Bob de Graaff  6. Access to Information: Promise Versus Practice in the USA  Don B. Schewe 7. Freedom of  Information and the American Presidency: A Researcher’s Perspective  Darby A. Morrisroe  8. The Problematic Freedom of Information Principle: The Swedish Experience  Kjell Ostberg and Fredrik Eriksson  9. Access to Information and Historical Research: The Canadian Experience  Larry Hannant  Section 3: Historians and the Closed Archive  10. Problems in Obtaining and Using Official Records for Research in Irish and British History in the Twenty-first Century Eunan O’Halpin  11. Censorship, Declassification and the History of End of Empire in Central Africa  Philip Murphy 12. Researching Contemporary Monetary History: The Archival Experiences of an Economic Historian  Michael J. Oliver 13. Political and Digital Divides: The Dual Challenge for Central European Archives  Miklos Lojko