TY  - CHAP
AB  - Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to explore the relationship between and among genres, discourse communities, and their associated ideologies by means of a historical case study of the rise and decline of a particular archival finding aid genre, i.e., the calendar, within the Public Records Office of Great Britain (PRO) between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.Findings The study demonstrates the ways in which the calendar genre, as it evolved in the PRO, reproduced, framed, and perpetuated a progressive, consensual understanding of the history of the British nation, and worked to construct a community of historical workers comprising select members of the PRO’s professional staff and select users.Originality/value The study deepens and extends understanding of discourse communities and the ideologies they promote and suppress and contributes to the emergent understanding of archival finding aids as socio-cultural texts by exposing the ways in which they participate in the formation and shaping of knowledge.
VL  - 11
SN  - 978-1-78441-255-5, 978-1-78441-254-8/2055-5377
DO  - 10.1108/S2055-537720140000011006
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-537720140000011006
AU  - MacNeil Heather
PY  - 2015
Y1  - 2015/01/01
TI  - The Role of Calendars in Constructing a Community of Historical Workers in the Public Records Office of Great Britain ca. 1850s–1950s
T2  - Genre Theory in Information Studies
T3  - Studies in Information
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 91
EP  - 113
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -