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Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2021: New Ways to Work: future directions for archival and historical practice

The events of the past 18 months have fundamentally changed how, as archivists and historians, we now work—individually and collaboratively. In this year’s Gerald Aylmer Seminar, we invite archivists and historians of all kinds to come together to take stock of the extent, implications and future of these changes. Under the theme of ‘New Ways to Work: future directions for archival and historical practice’, we want to consider how archivists and historians are working now, having been forced to make difficult decisions, to adapt and often to innovate in what we do and how we engage with one another. But in addition to looking at what’s changed, we are also looking to future ways of working: how do we best move forward in a relationship that won’t ‘return to normal’.

Pre-event content
We’re doing things a little differently this year. All of our speaker talks are available to watch in advance and our live event will be focused on speaker Q&A and discussion.

We would like to invite all attendees to watch these talks in advance and come along to the live event ready to participate in speaker Q&A and break-out room discussion

Background on the Seminar

The Gerald Aylmer Seminar is an annual one-day symposium jointly convened by and the Institute of Historical Research, The National Archives and the Royal Historical Society.

The purpose of the Gerald Aylmer Seminar is to bring together historians and archivists to discuss topics of mutual interest.

Pre-event videos