{"id":1707,"date":"2018-01-12T18:26:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2018-01-12T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T18:26:32","slug":"why-do-archive-files-on-britains-colonial-past-keep-going-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Why do archive files on Britain\u2019s colonial past keep going missing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalarchives.gov.uk\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">National Archives<\/a>\u00a0are home to more than 11m documents, many of them covering the most disturbing periods of Britain\u2019s colonial past. The uncomfortable truths revealed in previously classified government files have proved invaluable to those seeking to understand this country\u2019s history or to expose past injustices.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/dec\/27\/archive-files-britain-colonial-past-government\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Article originally published on The Guardian<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0National Archives\u00a0are home to more than 11m documents, many of them covering the most disturbing periods of Britain\u2019s colonial past. The uncomfortable truths revealed in previously classified government files have proved invaluable to those seeking to understand this country\u2019s history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1707\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[145,300,394],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-archives","tag-colonial-past","tag-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}