Email correspondence

PART OF:: Records of Railtrack Private Shareholders Action Group

Made:: 2002-01-01-2005-12-30

part of archive:: Records of Railtrack Private Shareholders Action Group

Records are held on one CD disk containing approximately 3000 emails. A sample of printed emails makes up five bundles of printed A4 pages.

This series consists of email correspondence gathered by the former Website Editor of RPSAG. The records cover the activities of the group during the run up and after the court case. They document how the group communicated with its members and also record the PR activities of the group carried out in order to gain support and funds. The records also focus on the design of the website and how the group decided to represent themselves in court.

Correspondence in RPSAG/4 sometimes duplicates that of RSPAG/3. This is because emails were often copied to a number of members of the group. However the Honorary Secretary and the Website Editor kept different correspondence and therefore their two email records are quite different. RPSAG/4 contains a much fuller record of the year 2003 than RPSAG/3.

Details

Extent:: 1 CD disk and 5 bundles

Identifier:: RPSAG/4

Access:: A Data Protection form must be signed prior to accessing this material.

System of Arrangement:: The records held on the CD disk remain in their original order. It contains a very large volume of emails which can be searched by users through ‘search and sort’ mechanisms in order to find emails that contain a certain subject or individual. For ease of reference a sample of email correspondence has been printed. The sample was ascertained by the archivist by using ‘search and sort’ facilities. Record classes that reflected functions of the group were searched for and selected in this way. The main functions of the group were identified by looking at the prominent activities identified in the rest of the collection, for example media, finance, PR. Synonyms of these functions derived from thesauri were also searched for in order to ‘catch’ a good range of emails. The rationale for this approach was taken from the archival Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media (Paradigm) project. A project by the major research libraries of Manchester and Oxford explored issues involved in preserving private digital papers. (http://www.paradigm.ac.uk/)

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Records of Railtrack Private Shareholders Action Group