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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">documentation</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">История и архивы</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>History and Archives</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2658-6541</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.28995/2658-6541-2025-7-4-137-150</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">documentation-538</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ПЕРСОНАЛЬНАЯ ИСТОРИЯ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>PERSONAL HISTORIES</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Хранители документов: роль личности в создании библиотечно-архивного отдела Министерства иностранных дел и по делам Содружества Великобритании</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Caretakers of records. The role of personality in the creation of the Library and Archives Department of the Ministry of Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of Great Britain</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-1711</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Банникова</surname><given-names>Н. В.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Bannikova</surname><given-names>N. V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Наталья В. Банникова, кандидат исторических наук, доцент</p><p>125047, Москва, Миусская пл., д. 6, стр. 6</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Natalia V. Bannikova, Cand. of Sci. (History), associate professor</p><p>6-6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">ganzhara@yandex.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Российский государственный гуманитарный университет</institution><country>Россия</country></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>Russian State University for the Humanities</institution><country>Russian Federation</country></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2025</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>06</day><month>01</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>7</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>137</fpage><lpage>150</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Банникова Н.В., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Банникова Н.В.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Bannikova N.V.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://documentation.rsuh.ru/jour/article/view/538">https://documentation.rsuh.ru/jour/article/view/538</self-uri><abstract><p>В статье рассматривается история создания библиотеки Министерства иностранных дел Великобритании (Foreign Office), по сути – библиотечно-архивного отдела, в 1801 г. и его развития до конца XIX в. После проведения административных реформ 1530–1560-х гг. постепенно стало уделяться должное внимание хранению и поиску информации, как следствие был создан «Архив политических бумаг», где содержались все важные государственные документы. В конце XVIII в. крупная реформа в структуре управления, разделившая ведение внутренних и внешних государственных дел, привела к образованию Министерства иностранных дел Великобритании, где пришли к решению сосредоточить документы, касающиеся международных отношений в отдельном департаменте (библиотеке). Затрагиваются причины, побудившие руководство Министерства иностранных дел Великобритании создать новый отдел, отвечающий за сохранность документации.</p><p>В статье представлены биографии первых библиотекарей Форин Офис – Ричарда Энселла, Льюиса и Эдварда Хертслет. Рассматривается их работа по упорядочиванию и систематизации документов министерства, в результате которой библиотечно-архивный отдел стал центральным органом министерства, а престиж профессии библиотекаря был поднят до уровня старшего клерка.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article examines the history of the creation in 1801 of the Library of the British Foreign Office (which was in fact the library and archives department) and traces its development until the end of the 19th century. After the administrative reforms of 1530–1560, the storage and search of information started gaining proper attention. And, as a result, the State Paper Office was created, which contained all important state records. At the end of the 18th century, a major reform in the management structure that separated the conduct of internal and external state affairs led to the formation of the British Foreign Office, where it was decided that the documents related to international relations should be kept in a separate department (library). The reasons that prompted the leadership of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs to create a new department responsible for the safety of documentation are touched upon.</p><p>The article discusses the biographies of the first librarians at the Foreign Office – Richard Ancell and Lewis and Edward Hertslet. The paper describes their work on streamlining and organizing the records of the Foreign Office, which led to the Library and Archives Department becoming the central body of the Office and raising the status of the librarian profession to that of a senior civil servant.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Форин Офис</kwd><kwd>библиотекарь</kwd><kwd>Ричард Энселл</kwd><kwd>Льюис Хертслет</kwd><kwd>Эдвард Хертслет</kwd><kwd>библиотечно-архивный отдел</kwd><kwd>реестр Хертслета</kwd><kwd>рукописные и печатные издания</kwd><kwd>сборники дипломатической корреспонденции</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Foreign Office</kwd><kwd>librarian</kwd><kwd>Richard Ancell</kwd><kwd>Lewis Hertslet</kwd><kwd>Edward Hertslet</kwd><kwd>Library and Archives Department</kwd><kwd>Hertslet Registry</kwd><kwd>handwritten and printed publications</kwd><kwd>collections of diplomatic correspondence</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Хорхордина, Халилова 2016 − Хорхордина Т.И., Халилова Л.А. 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