A Little More Web Kipple
And here’s another interesting chunk of Archivery via Period Sites in Period Browsers that doesn’t appear to be online anywhere else – A mid 1990s chronology of the BSE outbreak in the UK as published by the MAFF.
Continue reading “BSE, A 90s Chronology of Events”The BBC archive has just thrown up this lovely little clip. Shot in 1962, this short Ken Russel piece can only be described as a post apocalyptic archeological report. It has good fun misidentifying various pieces of 60s paraphernalia and contains a couple of sly digs at archaeology’s propensity to call anything it doesn’t understand ’religious’.
It also has a few subtle hints as to the nature of this post apocalyptic world; there’s still no mass production, no knowledge of radiation, nor (given the ignorance of the electric fire) apparently, electricity. Indeed, destruction must have been almost total – no books, no photos, no pictures. Even no real oral history.
The BFI also has a nice article on The Lonely Shore here.
This is something I’ve been meaning to write up for a little while and, with the success of the Internet Archive’s recovery from it’s attack, it makes sense to do so now.
In June of 2010, the National Archives released copies of the 1946 US-UK intelligence sharing agreement generally known as the ‘UKUSA Agreement‘. These files were, at one point, stored here. Alas, time and link rot comes for us all, and all that following that link will get you now is a ‘404 – Page Not Found’ error.
So I’ve extracted them all from the Wayback Machine and attached them below!
The core of the UKUSA agreement is covered in HW80/4, with the files HW80/1-3 and HW80/5-11 covering various amendments and procedures.
Continue reading “Archivery: UKUSA Agreement (1946)”
