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Maurice Bond Lecture and Harley Prize Presentation 2025

This year’s Maurice Bond lecture was given by Jane Winters, Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London on “Archiving in the digital age: risks, rewards and opportunities”.

It took place on Tuesday 29th April from 6-8.30 PM at The Warburg Institute, London UK.

Jane Winters considered the challenges associated with the identification, capture, archiving and preservation of the myriad forms of digital cultural heritage created by individuals, communities, institutions and organisations every day. She discussed digital records ranging from the archives of the web and social media to information held on company document servers and personal hard drives, exploring their value for histories of the late 20th and early 21st century. The talk addressed questions of abundance and scarcity, vulnerability and resilience, and concludd with some reflections on the digital infrastructures that mediate access to both digital and analogue records.

We presented the Janette Harley Prize 2024, which has been awarded to Dr Eliza Wheaton (editor) for Loving and Obedient? Family Correspondence of the Mores of Loseley Park, 1537-1686 (Surrey Record Society vol. XLVIII, 2023).