The Archives of Hilary Bailey and the Macirone Family

1. Two Cataloguing Projects
CATALOGUING THE ARCHIVES OF HILARY BAILEY AND OF THE
MACIRONE FAMILY

2. Hilary Bailey (1937-2017)
• Writer, editor, critic:
• Early writing largely science fiction, mostly short stories, often
published in New Worlds
• Later work and novels less science fiction, included many genres
• Literary critic for the Guardian
• Editor of New Worlds in 1970s
• Married to the science fiction writer Michael Moorcock 1962-1978

4. Graham Hall (1947-1980)
• Writer and editor
• Wrote science fiction short stories, published in New
Worlds
• Later became a New Worlds editor
• Archive largely correspondence, with some early short
stories

6. The Macirone Family
“Some people may imagine, by the look of their name, that the Macirones hail from Scotland;
but this is not so, and the name should be pronounced in the Italian fashion, “Matchironey” –
The Musical Herald, 1888
• Victorian middle class family.
• Descended from an Italian family
• George Macirone, 1788-1858, importer/exporter and banker, and his wife Mary Ann, 1791-1869
• Clara Angela Macirone, 1821-1914 (not 1895!), composer and musician
• Emily Macirone, 1827-1888, artist
• George Augustus Macirone, 1834-1910, engineer and his wife Mary

7. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clara_Angela_Macirone.jpg

8. The process
1. Box listing
2. Arrangement
3. Repackaging for preservation
4. Cataloguing
5. Barcoding and shelfmarking
6. Proof-reading and proof-reading the catalogue, then proof-reading again.

9. Arrangement
Hilary Bailey Archive
• Diaries
• Correspondence
• Literary Papers
• Printed and Miscellaneous Papers
• Papers of Graham Hall
Macirone Family Archive
• Correspondence
• Personal journals and notebooks
• Scrapbooks and writing regarding family
histories
• Miscellaneous items relating to the Macirone
Family
• Born digital material regarding the Macirone
Family

14. ISAD (G)
Identity Statement Area 1.1.
Reference code
1.2. Title
1.3. Dates
1.4. Level of description
1.5. Extent and medium of the unit of
description
2. Context Area
2.1. Name of Creator
2.2. Administrative/biographical
history
2.3. Archival history
2.4. Immediate source of acquisition
or transfer
3. Content and Structure Area
3.1. Scope and content
3.2. Appraisal, destruction and
scheduling information
3.3. Accruals
3.4. System of Arrangement
4. Conditions of Access and Use Area
4.1. Conditions governing access
4.2. Conditions governing reproduction
4.3. Language/scripts of material
4.4. Physical characteristics and
technical requirements
4.5. Finding aids
5. Allied Materials Area
5.1. Existence and location of originals
5.2. Existence and location of copies
5.3. Related units of description
5.4. Publication note
6. Notes Area
6.1. Note
7. Description control area
7.1. Archivist’s Note
7.2. Rules or conventions
7.3. Date of description

15. ISAD (G)
Mandatory Fields:
◦Reference Code
◦Title
◦Name of Creator
◦Dates of Creation
◦Extent of the Unit of Description
◦Level of Description

19. MS. Hilary Bailey
MS. 11904