This issue of Archives and Manuscripts, centred on the theme of radical recordkeeping, was designed with two aims in mind. The first was to present a selection of papers that suggest the creativity, range, and breadth of current conversations in archival scholarship and practice, and that are also linked to radical departures in thinking, in content, and in approach. The second was to connect Australian recordkeeping, past and present, with the growing, diverse scholarship and practice that continues to evolve around records, challenges, and radical solutions. The idea of a Radical Recordkeeping theme issue for Archives and Manuscripts was born from discussions within the Records Continuum Research Group, 1 arising from the need for diverse voices, cases, situations, and conversations on radical recordkeeping that relate to conversations, both new and ongoing, in Australian archival contexts. The term 'recordkeeping' is used here in a Records Continuum sense-as an umbrella term encompassing records, relationships, and use from all aspects of creation, capture, organisation and pluralisation. The most relevant submissions to this theme issue were those that considered the complexity of an archive in all its contexts, rather than just the result of or end-point of collection. The term 'radical' is a contested one to be used in terms of recordkeeping (distinct from inciting terror), with a working definition, as the concept is emergent. The Guest Editors sought contributions from authors on recordkeeping and radical content (whether it be documenting activism, social movements or extreme views) as well as or alternatively, disruption of traditional recordkeeping paradigms in revolutionary or profound ways using different approaches that inform practice, scholarship and teaching. In this issue, Cassie Findlay discusses the social and technological advances shaping a new future for recordkeeping, posing both opportunities and challenges. In a post-truth society, information has become weaponised, she quotes, and as a networked society, some individuals and groups are pushing back on surveillance, custody and control of information. As personal data becomes currency, the shift of power to a networked rather than hierarchical model for recordkeeping is provoking new types of recordkeeping tools and strategies (including the use of blockchain). A common connector between the radical ideas presented in this issue is perfectly captured by Findlay: we must think beyond the institutional, the separate 'capture' of records by agents involved in the transactions, and think instead of co-creation and keeping of records using a system that is designed and operated by consensus amongst a family, a community, an institution or a government (p. 186
