Gjentakelse — Appraisal

Example

KV 6/47 at the UK National Archives.

Miscellaneous records preserved by Gilbert Wakefield, employed in MI5 in 1956 to weed records deemed no longer worth keeping. The files involved were destroyed but some early papers that he considered were of historical interest were preserved, with hand-written notes he made by way of explanation.

Descriptions can form a kind of 'post-archive': shedding light on what was disposed of or rejected/filtered out.