The List and Index Society (L&IS) is a United Kingdom
learned society
A learned society ( ; also scholarly, intellectual, or academic society) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and sciences. Membership may be open to al ...
that publishes
finding aids,
calendars and
editions of
archival records. It also publishes occasional monographs.
The society was founded in 1965 by Sir
Geoffrey Elton and others, with the aim of publishing and distributing "photographic copies of unprinted lists and indexes kept in the
Public Record Office, London, and of other unprinted guides and aids to the use of public archives in the British Isles", so that historians working at a distance from London could find out what was available in advance of their visits. More recently, photocopied lists and indexes have been replaced by the online catalogue but the society continues to provide a service to historians by publishing augmented lists, calendars and texts of historical manuscripts both in
The National Archives and in other repositories, supplementing the online catalogue.
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Learned societies of the United Kingdom
Text publication societies
The National Archives (United Kingdom)
1965 establishments in the United Kingdom
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