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A history with web archives, not a history of web archives : a history of the British measles–mumps–rubella vaccine crisis, 1998–2004
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Millward, Gareth (2019) A history with web archives, not a history of web archives : a history of the British measles–mumps–rubella vaccine crisis, 1998–2004. In: Brügger , Niels and Milligan, Ian , (eds.) The SAGE handbook of web history. Communication and Media Studies . Los Angeles: Sage Publications Ltd., pp. 464-478. ISBN 9781473980051
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Abstract
This chapter details a case study where the British Library’s search interface SHINE and the Internet Archive were used as part of a wider documentary history of British vaccination policy since the Second World War. It serves of an example of how social and political historians will increasingly use web archives in their work. Histories of the 1990s and twenty-first century will be impossible without them. However, non-digital historians may lack awareness and skills necessary to make best use of these tools. This case study demonstrates to archivists and platform providers the thinking process used by semi-skilled historians. This may act as a guide to what historians want from digital repositories and how this might be provided. Similarly, it may demonstrate what training and methodological development historians require to produce better histories from web archives.
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Historiography, Public health -- History -- Great Britain, Vaccination -- History -- Great Britain, Measles, Mumps, Rubella | ||||||
Series Name: | Communication and Media Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
Place of Publication: | Los Angeles | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781473980051 | ||||||
Book Title: | The SAGE handbook of web history | ||||||
Editor: | Brügger , Niels and Milligan, Ian | ||||||
Official Date: | 2019 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 625 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 464-478 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 February 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 February 2021 | ||||||
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