Lectures
These are, for the most part, unpublished presentations/papers given at symposia from 1997
onwards. Published items are under 'bibliography.'
Archives in the digital age.’ Paper presented at the National Preservation
Office Seminar, 28 April, 1997.
Convergence in the digital age: challenge for libraries, museums and archives.
Proceedings of a conference held in Amsterdam on 13-14 August 1998.
Introduction to session II ' The citizens' access to the digital heritage,' at
the European Commission conference Libraries in the information society 1999.
English overseas charting 1540-1640 . Presentation to the Folger Library, March,
1998.
From manuscript to printed maps. Seminar paper at All Souls Jan 1999
'Archival landscape' Presentation given at the Society of Archives conference at
Manchester 28 June 2000.
Paper given to the History of Cartography seminars at the Warburg Institute on
‘Gabriel Tatton' s atlas of the East Indies’, 4 May 2000,: a revised version of
that given at Madison, University of Wisconsin symposium on the History of
Cartography Vol III, 6-7 April 2000.
The geography of the sea. Research paper on the drawing and projection of charts
in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries includong the 'paradoxal' chart.
Given at the Institue of Historical Research (IHR) Maritime history seminar 20
March 2001
Public History and Archives. Seminar presentation at 'Historians and their
publics'conference at York University 20 April 2001
'Old traditions,New archives' keynote at the International Conference for
Informatics in the Humanities (ICHIM) at Milan 3-7 Sept 2001
Nautical tales from the archives:discovery and exploration in mapping of the
sixteenth and early seventeenth century.The Plume lecture at Maldon, Essex 22
Nov 2003
'Oh Lord the Queen is a woman.' Cultural organisations:a woman's place. British
and International Federations of University Women lecture at the Sybil Campbell
Library 2003
'Quinn, the Hakluyt Society, and Map Friends (1909-2002)' at the memorial
meeting for David Quinn on 13 March 2003 organised by the Hakluyt Society at the
Warburg Institute
Speech at the 30th anniversary meeting of the Federation of Family History
Societies at Loughborough 24-26 Aug 2004
'You can't keep it all.' UCL Guest Lecture 21 Oct 2004
C21st curation seminar - working with digital assets in the new millenium;
challenges and opportunities. School of Library, Archive and Informatuion Studies
UCL seminars. 8 June 2005
After dinner speech at the 'Librarians and Archivists' dinner held at Churchill
College 15 Feb 2005
RLG meeting at the Huntington Library California 18-19 April 2005 'spotlight on
innovation.'
'Sir Methusaleh Jenkinson and after: making the national archives in London.'
Lecture at Humanities Advanced Technolgy and Information Institution (HATII)
9 May 2005
Sarah Tyacke talks to Elspeth Hyams about the creation of Britain's
truly state-of -the- art National Archives.In the service of history.
Library+Information Update Sept 2005 vol 4 (9) pp. 20-22.
DLM conference Budapest 4-7 Oct 2005 keynote presentation as chair of the DLM
forum.
Panel presentation at the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) Newfoundland,
June 2006, 'Records managers and archivists . What are they for?'
Presentations at archival conference Singapore Sept 2006, 'Old traditons,New archives.'
Presentation at the Nelson Mandela Fondation Johannesburg, 'Transforming Archives'
for the Archives conference April 2007
Keynote on Robert Dudley for 'Richard Hakluyt : life, times, legacy' Conference
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK, May 2008
Panel presentaion, The evaluation 2008 of the evaluation in 2006 of the Archival Service
of Finland, ICA Kuala Lumpur July 2008 ( with David Leitch and Iussi Nuorteva)
Course on archival legislation, preservation for non-specialists and records
management and appraisial with Kelvin Smith for the Centre for Documentation
and Research (CDR) of the UAE in Abu Dhabi Feb 2009
'Understanding Robert Dudley:the Arcano del Mare 1646-8' History of Cartography
seminar Warburg, February 2009
Keynote with Graham Dominy at ACA Calgary May 2009,'The state we're in:
National Archives services and the application of access and privacy/confidentiality
to records'