Historians come to archives with mixed backgrounds and expectations. Many are new to archival research and, due to the vagaries of personal experiences, may come with hope, expectation, even uncertainty or disdain or awe. Others are old hands and, due to the vagaries of personal experiences, may come with hope, expectation, even uncertainty or disdain or awe. Historians and archivists both need to focus on how we use and disseminate the knowledge found there. We need to consider how we work with archived knowledge, especially now that so much more is becoming so much more readily available. In this paper, I present one historians views on working with archived knowledge we act as intermediaries in its dissemination.