#public-record-office

#public-record-office

Michael Roper's leadership at the Public Record Office significantly shaped modern archival practices in the UK.

His career was marked by a major relocation of records management from central London to Kew.

Centuries of historical records in Ireland were lost in a massive explosion during the civil war of 1922.

A team at Trinity College Dublin has been able to locate and digitize a quarter of a million lost records from the destroyed Public Record Office in a project funded by the Irish government.