Our rediscovery of a seventeenth-century postmasters' trunk in the Museum voor Communicatie in The Hague, containing some twenty-six hundred undelivered letters mostly sent from France, offers the opportunity to think from the ground up about what constitutes an archive and how to approach it. We argue that understanding the process of loss, destruction, and survival of collections is a crucial exercise for historians. Practicing this “archaeology of the archive” makes us keenly aware that the questions we ask are often dictated by the genesis and structure of the archive. Although document survival is often the result of intentional safekeeping, in other cases it can be attributed to sheer accident. Addressing questions of materiality, mob...
The opening of an archives is often an exciting occasion when access is gained to once inaccessible ...
The manuscript archive (as for example the legal archives of the 18th century) is for an historian n...
International audienceThis article examines the preserving of the memory shared by collectors and me...
Our rediscovery of a seventeenth-century postmasters' trunk in the Museum voor Communicatie in The H...
Contains fulltext : 206024.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Our rediscovery...
Our rediscovery of a seventeenth-century postmasters' trunk in the Museum voor Communicatie in The H...
Our rediscovery of a seventeenth-century postmasters' trunk in the Museum voor Communicatie in The H...
The word “archive” doesn’t belong to archivists or to historians any more, and this has been the cas...
Before deciding what position an archive document is allotted to, its very nature and, the condition...
Digitisation in French Public Archives Services : a Pragmatic Revolution. The sheer volume of archi...
<p>In this article the Author proves archive to be a memorial, as the term is understood by the thes...
In common parlance, the archive is a large repository of paperwork no longer in bureau cratic circul...
For a public archive service, the collection of a private archival collection is always a delicate q...
International audienceAre libraries archival repositories and if so, what do they archive and how do...
Les archives départementales de la Manche ont subi, au soir du 6 juin 1944, une destruction complète...
The opening of an archives is often an exciting occasion when access is gained to once inaccessible ...
The manuscript archive (as for example the legal archives of the 18th century) is for an historian n...
International audienceThis article examines the preserving of the memory shared by collectors and me...
Our rediscovery of a seventeenth-century postmasters' trunk in the Museum voor Communicatie in The H...
Contains fulltext : 206024.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)Our rediscovery...
Our rediscovery of a seventeenth-century postmasters' trunk in the Museum voor Communicatie in The H...
Our rediscovery of a seventeenth-century postmasters' trunk in the Museum voor Communicatie in The H...
The word “archive” doesn’t belong to archivists or to historians any more, and this has been the cas...
Before deciding what position an archive document is allotted to, its very nature and, the condition...
Digitisation in French Public Archives Services : a Pragmatic Revolution. The sheer volume of archi...
<p>In this article the Author proves archive to be a memorial, as the term is understood by the thes...
In common parlance, the archive is a large repository of paperwork no longer in bureau cratic circul...
For a public archive service, the collection of a private archival collection is always a delicate q...
International audienceAre libraries archival repositories and if so, what do they archive and how do...
Les archives départementales de la Manche ont subi, au soir du 6 juin 1944, une destruction complète...
The opening of an archives is often an exciting occasion when access is gained to once inaccessible ...
The manuscript archive (as for example the legal archives of the 18th century) is for an historian n...
International audienceThis article examines the preserving of the memory shared by collectors and me...