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Archive Service Accreditation is the UK standard for archive services, and 2024 marks 10 years since the Richard Burton Archives at Swansea University became the first university archive in the UK and the first service in Wales to receive accreditation status after the launch of the standard in 2013. To mark the occasion, we’re delving…Continue Reading Ten Years of Archives Accreditation
Following my first and second blog, covering different parts of my internship at the Richard Burton Archives, in my third and final blog I will focus on my impressions of a typical day working in an archive. Behind a glass door is a world of stories waiting to be told, on paper, photograph, parchment and…Continue Reading An Archival Perspective
As part of my placement at the Richard Burton Archives, part of my work included translating material from the Centre for Contemporary German Culture (CCGC) collection, from German to English. In this blog, I therefore wish to explore what translators have to consider. While converting German content into English, some terms proved more difficult to…Continue Reading The Art of Translation