Guilty Secrets
Deceit, Denial, and the Discovery of Kenya’s ‘Migrated Archive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7798641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David M Anderson (0000-0002-0328-1640, University of Warwick, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 142-160 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbv027 |
| OpenAlex | W2281919366 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 40 |
| References cited | 7 |
In April 2011, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office revealed that it was illegally holding a large archive of documents that had been removed from the former colonies at the point of independence. This included files taken from thirty-seven countries between the late 1940s and the 1970s. This revelation emerged as a consequence of a case mounted in the High Court to seek compensation for Kenyan victims of alleged abuse and torture during the Mau Mau rebellion of the 1950s. This article recounts how these ‘migrated archives’ were first removed from the colonies, and how their existence in Britain then came to light more than forty years later. Destruction and secrecy are the principal themes of this story, which raises wider questions about the censorship, control and ownership of archives.
Computer security · Criminology · Denial · Internet privacy · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Computer Science · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Military History and Strategy · Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
Taking the Measure of the Commonwealth
The Secret Empire of Signals Intelligence
The Dregs of the Mau Mau Barrel”
The Grammar of Status Competition
Thinking About Denial
Open secrets
Facts about Atrocity
Terence Ranger, 1929-2015
Humanitarianism, Race and Denial
Gendering Labour in Palestinian Archaeology, 1890s–1930s
Who Were the Military Reaction Force? Undercover British Army Shootings on the Streets of Belfast, 1971 to 1973
Cobain, Ian. The History Thieves
Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho
Unsettled Responsibilities
Archives, Epistemic Injustice and Knowing the Past
The last forum of accountability? State secrecy, intelligence and freedom of information in the United Kingdom
Gunboats of soft power’
A haunting past
Presidential Powers in Postcolonial Africa Deserve Historical Attention
Navigating “Confidentiality”
The Productivity of Political Imprisonment
Constituencies of Control’ – Collective Punishments in Kenya’s Mau Mau Emergency, 1952–55
Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments
Colonial Fragility
Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park
Remapping Italy’s Migrant and Migrated Archives
Performances of Injustice
Reconstructing the legacies of colonial detention
Hidden violence and silenced voices
Scandal and Secrecy in the History of the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
In the shadows of the continuum
The flexibility of the records continuum model
Wiriyamu and the Colonial Archive
Les migrated archives ou l’art de cacher le passé colonial au Royaume-Uni
Secrets, hostages, and ransoms
Mau Mau's Army of Clerks
The geographies of the Information Research Department
Old wounds
Locating Kenya's emergency detention camps
Risk and labour in the archives
Apply the Flame More Searingly’
Censorship, declassification and the history of end of empire in Central Africa
Medicine Murder in Colonial Lesotho
Mau Mau in the High Court and the 'Lost' British Empire Archives
Historians, a legacy of suspicion and the 'migrated archives
Decolonization and Independence in Kenya 1940-1993
"Unsound" minds and broken bodies
| Unique citing works | 40 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 37 |